On tonight’s Jay Leno Show, Drew Barrymore becomes the first celebrity to get behind the wheel of a tricked-out, track-ready, all-electric Ford Focus. It’s all part of the new “Green Car Challenge” segment which pits celebrities against each other in a bid to record the fastest times. The Leno crew even built a specially-designed racetrack outside the studio to handle the vehicles.

And standard cars, these are not. From Automobilemag:

In addition to swapping out powertrains, Ford put in Recaro racing seats complete with five-point harnesses to hold the celebrities in place and installed a full roll cage to keep them safe should they manage to roll the vehicle. Ford also swapped out the rear springs to deal with the extra heft of the batteries. Incredibly, the engineers only needed six-weeks to build Leno’s electric Focus.

A roll cage? Whoa. Who want to bet the legal sign-off on this race is a few pages thick? The engineers were probably thinking something like, “Let’s say Gary Busey gets behind the wheel of this car…”

The Jay Leno Show rolls this evening at 10PM EST.

via Treehugger

Ever since his now legendary red carpet appearance at this year’s Oscars, Gary Busey has become something of an icon of idiocy to millions. Which is great, because I’ve often thought the world could use more Busey — and thankfully, someone out there was thinking the same thing.

The 64-year-old actor is appearing in a number of video shorts called “Gary Busey On Business“, in which he dishes funny and cliché biz tips to the masses. The one that caught our attention is titled, “The Fake Hybrid SUV Car Sticker Idea”. From the clip,

“How ’bout a sticker on the side of your SUV that says ‘It’s a Hybrid?’ You won’t save the planet or use less fuel, but people won’t be giving you the finger or calling you the village idiot, or an environmental disaster…”

It’s genius Gary — but darnit, someone already beat you to it. Nevertheless, I’m confident that Busey will yet come up with a plan to curb climate change, lower gas prices, and cure cancer. If he can’t do it, no one will.

via autobloggreen