Call it a generation gap if you like but this has gotta be the most ridiculous automobile I've ever seen. The Five Axis Xa is a concept car build around a Scion Xa by Five Axis, a Huntington Beach, California customizer and fabricator of one-off cars, with the full knowledge and agreement of Toyota.

Trevor Hofman, a Vancouver journalist colleague writing for American Auto Press, describes it as "an Xbox gaming center on wheels, with no less than three 360 gaming consoles, with MadCatz MC2 racing steering wheels, MadCatz MicroCON wireless control pads, discretely hidden in their own custom headrest storage tray, and two 19-inch Samsung LCD monitors behind the front seats plus a Casio XJ-560 video projector mounted behind the seats and shooting onto a massive screen that pops up out of the reverse-hinged trunk-lid for the driver, all displaying Forza Motorsport racing software."

Well, gee, Trevor, I always thought the fun was in carving curves over hills and valleys, finding a line through the corner, up-and-down-shifting with heel-and-toe, and seeking new adventures "somewhere west of Laramie" as the old Jordan ad romantically suggested. Now I learn that fun with your car means parking west of nowhere and playing games or watching video on that massive screen. Or is this the world's first mobile drive-in?