Another concept car from GM and Harley Earl was the 1951 Buick Le Sabre, which GM called a "laboratory on wheels." (That's Earl again, in the driver's seat.) Its technological features, according to GM, included "a dual gasoline and alcohol fuel system and a moisture sensor, which would raise the convertible top if it began raining when the owner was away from the car." On the design side, it borrowed some of its look from the first generation of jet fighters.
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