11 Cars That Look More Like Alien Spacecraft

The vast majority of cars look like nothing more than cars. Hell, most of them aren't even particularly interesting. If you look out onto the nearest street you'll see an endless parade of boring boxes that were very practical choices and the occasional bright exception to this rule.

Rarer still is the car that goes beyond being different enough to be cool and ventures into the realm of crazy. If crazy is mixed with futurism, you get these 11 Cars That Look Like Alien Spacecraft. Beam us up!

Spacecraft Role: Special-ops boarding missile

In the future, when a spec-ops team needs to board an enemy spacecraft, they'll simply insert themselves with manned missile like the Acabion. In reality, this is a land-speed record attempt car.

Spacecraft Role: Spy/Criminal mastermind's personal spaceship

If you're flying this thing, you're clearly a futuristic version of James Bond, a sith lord, or a mob boss who makes his money selling black market spice.

Spacecraft Role: Moon tour bus

It's a hyper-efficient electric bus from Japan, but we think it would be better used giving flybys of the moon.

Spacecraft Role: Scouting vessel

The tiny VW XL1 is made to be as efficient as possible, but we'd believe you, if you told us that it were loaded with a variety of high-tech surveillance equipment designed to gather evidence on the galaxie's roguish Han Solo types.

Spacecraft Role: Escape pod

The Dymaxion was initially created to not only be a futuristic take on personal transportation, but to eventually be converted into a flying car as well.

Spacecraft Role: Mobile command center

The Surface Orbiter was designed to circumnavigate the world without having to turn. That's right, it's an off-road ready amphibious RV that looks like something right out of the original Planet of the Apes.

Spacecraft Role: Space station shuttle

Most of Honda's offering are really conservative and boring these days, so we'd be surprised if the production version came out looking this blatantly futuristic. We can still hope, however.

Spacecraft Role: Personal attack vessel

Paganis almost look more like actual aliens than they do the spacecraft, but the Huayra, in particular reminds us of the aliens in Independece Day that split apart in the middle and harbor another little baby alien who is controlling it from the inside. Freaky.

Spacecraft Role: ATV that can be dropped from orbit

We love French concept cars, because the designers are clearly just given carte blanche to do whatever the hell they want, like design ATVs that can be dropped from orbiting science vessels.

Spacecraft Role: High-speed personal transport

It might be a hyper efficient car from a company that we really wish hadn't gone under, but it looked like something that would carry VIP passengers at great speed along some sort of inter-planetary highway system.

Spacecraft Role: Interceptor, ordinance delivery

Why does this space fighter from the year 2246 have wheels? Because it's actually an American hypercar that is supposed to be able to hit a top speed over 275 mph. Not only does it look like an alien design, but its exhaust system also looks like a big old pair of alien testicles.