There are plenty of reasons to spend money. Charity, food, raising one’s family. But surely there’s no better reason to spend money than to develop a real-life Transformer – a car that can turn into a robot. It’s what we all really want from life. Right?

This is the dream of one Japanese man on YouTube, and by gum he’s well on the way to reaching that rainbow. Check out version 8 of his ongoing project, and marvel at how so much awesome it’s possible to achieve with some metal and wires. Just the slightly hilarious walking motion to sort out now.