You would think that super beetle robot would only be seen in Kamen Rider or Super Sentai TV shows. But this Japanese guy took 11 years to construct this awesome movable ride that is sure to help you pick up babes if you drove it downtown to pick up some groceries.

Designed and built by an Ibaraki man in his garage over the course of eleven years, the “Kabutom MX-03″ looks like a prop from a Power Rangers spin-off but is an actual working vehicle. Why build it? Because owning an eleven meter long, fifteen ton robot beetle makes you a mack daddy — in Japan or anywhere else.

Shaped like a kabuto-mushi (rhinocerous beetle, a favorite design of Japanese toymakers and, uh, candymakers), it can be remote controlled or piloted from the cockpit (visible on the left side), and is capable of carrying passengers inside its shell. Alas it more “shuffles” than walks — the legs pull it along the ground, while the weight is supported by wheels

Source: AltJapan via JapanProbe

I can see it now … Japan will take over the world not in huge Gundam, but super kabuto tanks!