開車帶我上月球！超酷炫外星人車誕生

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.
看起來像是《銀翼殺手》，《全面回憶》或者《第五元素》中的道具，但這些具有太空時代前瞻意義的汽車完全值得上路一試。他們顛覆了普通公路汽車模型，給汽車賦予了科幻慨念，代表了美國佛羅里達州的汽車設計師邁克.維特爾的工作成果和創造力。

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.
他從付費客戶那裏拿來捐贈的車，然後將其進行一系列改造創造出科幻概念車，或者叫外星人座駕，他喜歡這樣叫他們。結果是——科幻的突破天際。

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.
這位42歲的居家男人，在米克擁有自己的汽車修理站“汽車工廠”。他在女兒出生以後，發現無法將安全坐騎塞進自己的跑車裏，於是產生了改造汽車的想法。

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."
邁克說：“我和妻子香儂有一個可愛的女兒，我們曾擁有和駕駛很多輛兩座跑車，這是我們的工作，同時也以此爲樂。因爲我們不喝酒也不抽菸，所以我們的私人時間基本都是在弄車。有了女兒以後，我們不能再駕駛兩座跑車了”。

"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."
因此我開始設計一款擁有嬰兒後座的跑車，邁克繼續說。開始改造跑車後外觀開起來有些奇怪，於是我乾脆完全跑偏，決定創造未來概念汽車，我想這應該能有用。我使用雪佛蘭新新愛唯歐改造成了我的第一輛外星人座駕。

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)
邁克創造的古怪外形的跑車完全適合上路，而且時速可達100英里。他從1998年開始設計外星人座駕作爲自己的獨特收入來源。現在他已經成功改造了很多輛車，從豐田普銳斯到保時捷博克斯特，價格從7萬5000美元（4萬7000英鎊）到令人咋舌的25萬美元（15萬7000英鎊）不等。