They might look like prop from Blade Runner, Total Recall or The Fifth Element, but these space-age-looking cars are actually completely road-worthy. Ordinary road models given an extraterrestrial twist, they represent the work and creativity of custom car designer Michael Vetter, from Florida, USA.

　　看起来像是《银翼杀手》，《全面回忆》或者《第五元素》中的道具，但这些具有太空时代前瞻意义的汽车完全值得上路一试。他们颠覆了普通公路汽车模型，给汽车赋予了科幻慨念，代表了美国佛罗里达州的汽车设计师迈克.维特尔的工作成果和创造力。

　　He takes 'donor cars' from paying customers, and makes a series of modifications to create his extraterrestrial vehicles - or 'ETVs' as he calls them. And the result is, more often than not, out of this world.

　　他从付费客户那里拿来捐赠的车，然后将其进行一系列改造创造出科幻概念车，或者叫外星人座驾，他喜欢这样叫他们。结果是——科幻的突破天际。

　　The 42-year-old family-man, who owns custom garage The Car Factory in Micco, came up with the idea after the birth of his daughter, when he was unable to squeeze her car-seat into his sports car.

　　这位42岁的居家男人，在米克拥有自己的汽车修理站“汽车工厂”。他在女儿出生以后，发现无法将安全坐骑塞进自己的跑车里，于是产生了改造汽车的想法。

　　Michael said: "My wife Shannon and I had our baby girl. We had driven and owned many two-seater sports cars as this is what we do for fun and work."We do not drink or smoke, so our social time was mostly cars."Once we had our little girl we could no longer drive a two-seater and be together."

　　迈克说：“我和妻子香侬有一个可爱的女儿，我们曾拥有和驾驶很多辆两座跑车，这是我们的工作，同时也以此为乐。因为我们不喝酒也不抽烟，所以我们的私人时间基本都是在弄车。有了女儿以后，我们不能再驾驶两座跑车了”。

　　"At this point I started drawing up sports cars with a back seat for the baby seat," Michael continued."These cars ended up looking too weird to consider a sports car so I went completely off the deep-end and decided futuristic could work. I used a Chevrolet Aveo when building the first ETV."

　　因此我开始设计一款拥有婴儿后座的跑车，迈克继续说。开始改造跑车后外观开起来有些奇怪，于是我干脆完全跑偏，决定创造未来概念汽车，我想这应该能有用。我使用雪佛兰新新爱唯欧改造成了我的第一辆外星人座驾。

　　Michael's wacky-looking creations are always road-worthy and can hit speeds of up to 100mph. He started building the ETVs in 1998 as his sole source of income. Now he has converted everything from a Toyota Prius to a Porsche Boxster into one of his futuristic models, which have sold from as much as $75,000 (£47,000) to a staggering $250,000 (£157,000)

　　迈克创造的古怪外形的跑车完全适合上路，而且时速可达100英里。他从1998年开始设计外星人座驾作为自己的独特收入来源。现在他已经成功改造了很多辆车，从丰田普锐斯到保时捷博克斯特，价格从7万5000美元(4万7000英镑)到令人咋舌的25万美元(15万7000英镑)不等。

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