Filed under: Features, Robots, Transportation

Generally we’re a little too, um, preoccupied on New Year’s Day to bother with such trifles as opening our eyes and watching the annual Rose Parade from Pasadena, but with Honda planning an ambitious drift for 2008 that will feature a gigantic ASIMO replica riding a transforming Honda Ridgeline, well, at the very least we’ll be setting our DVR. According to American Honda, which provides the Tournament of Roses with hundreds of vehicles and has won numerous awards for its entries in the past, its generators will cause “the hood of the truck to fold forward to become an aircraft cockpit, the doors and sides of the truck to unfold outward to become wings, the wheels to tuck under the body, and the bed of the truck

to open and take on the structure of an aircraft tail section, complete with rocket engines - and even real fire.” Giant robots piloting huge fire-breathing truck-planes? whether that truly is a “Passport to the Future” as Honda claims, you can sign us up! Lots more pics in the gallery below, and a full seven-part, behind-the-scenes mini-documentary after the break.

[Via The Raw Feed, photos and videos courtesy of Honda]

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Orginal post by Evan Blass