[DARPA](http://www.darpa.mil/) [announced](http://www.grandchallenge.org/downloads/NQE%20Final1.pdf “pdf Press Release”) the finalists for Saturday’s (10/8) [Grand Challenge](http://www.grandchallenge.org/).
Here’s the list of finalists:
| Team | Vehicle |
|---|---|
| Axion Racing (Westlake Village, Calif.) |
Grand Cherokee |
| Team Cajunbot (Lafayette, La.) |
6-wheel amphibious all-terrain vehicle |
| Team CalTech (Pasadena, Calif.) |
Ford E-350 Van |
| Team CIMAR (Gainesville, Fla.) |
Rock Crawler – base vehicle was custom built by Georgia All Terrain Monsters |
| Team Cornell (Ithaca, N.Y.) |
Vehicle is based on a military light strike vehicle. |
| Team DAD(Digital Auto Drive) (Morgan Hill, Calif.) |
2005 Toyota Tundra |
| Desert Buckeyes (Ohio State University, Columbus) |
Polaris Ranger 6×6 |
| Team ENSCO (Springfield, Va.) |
Custom-made desert racer |
| The Golem Group/UCLA (Los Angeles) |
2005 Dodge Ram 2500 |
| The Gray Team (Metairie, La.) |
2005 Ford Escape Hybrid |
| Insight Racing (Cary, N.C.) |
Chevrolet Suburban with a Linux brain |
| Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems I (Littleton, Colo.) |
Ford F-250 Super Duty |
| Mitre Meteorites (McLean, Va.) |
Ford Explorer Sport Trac |
| MonsterMoto (Cedar Park, Tex.) |
ATV |
| Mojavaton (Grand Junction, Colo.) |
2001 Nissan Xterra |
| Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.) |
GMC Sierra |
| Red Team (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh) |
High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) |
| Red Team Too (Carnegie-Mellon) |
1999 H1 Hummer |
| SciAutonics/Auburn Engineering (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) |
ATV made by ATV Corporation |
| Stanford Racing Team (Palo Alto, Calif.) |
Diesel-powered Volkswagen Touareg R5 |
| Team Terra Max (Oshkosh, Wis.) |
Oshkosh’s Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) |
| Virginia Tech Team Rocky (Blacksburg,Va.) |
XRT-1500 Club Car |
| Virginia Tech Grand Challenge Team (Blacksburg,Va.) |
4WD Utility Cart |
Unfortunately, Charlottesville’s [Team Jefferson](http://www.perronerobotics.com/dgc/) did [not](http://www.perronerobotics.com/dgc/index_news.htm) make the cut.