LA man spent day in Michigan's private city where all the gas is free and cars don't have license plates and couldn't believe what he saw

This guy traveled from California to Michigan – to a ‘city’ owned by General Motors where gas is free and cars have no license plates.

It sounds like a dream, or maybe something out of a GTA video game, but it really exists.

But there are a couple of catches.

The biggest one is you can’t just move here.

This ‘city’ in Michigan now has a ‘twin’ in Italy

Ferrari is working on something vaguely similar to this town in Michigan.

Most car people might be familiar with Fiorano, Ferrari’s private test track.

But the company is now building more facilities around Fiorano, and sooner or later it’ll look like a town.

It’s inevitable.

You start with a facility where people work, but workers need food and a place to stay.

And it makes sense to build cafeterias and diners and houses near the facility for added convenience.

Before you know it, what started as a business place becomes a lot more than that.

Sometimes companies make it official.

SpaceX, for example, was founded in California before relocating to Texas, where its main HQ, Starbase, is now an incorporated city.

The reason why General Motors built this ‘city’

General Motors built this place for the exact same reason Ferrari is building an equivalent ‘town’ in Italy: privacy.

The location in question is the Milford Proving Ground, smack in the middle of Michigan, which has served as a vehicle testing location for about a century.

Milford sits conveniently central to key GM hubs such as Flint, Detroit, Lansing, and Pontiac – all within an easy drive of Milford.

Gas is free because this is where GM tests prototypes, and there are no license plates for the same reason.

Uptin, a content creator from California, traveled all the way to Michigan to check out the proving ground in person, and he couldn’t believe what he found when he got there.

This is basically a whole city.

You’ve got long stretches of road that look like highways, high speed rings like Nardo in Italy, and obviously plenty of space to test vehicles off road as well.

It’s amazing, but there’s a catch.

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But this isn’t the sort of town you can just move to.

Partly because the entire place exists to test prototypes in total secrecy, away from competitors and prying eyes.

But also because only a tiny number of security staff live on-site; everyone else commutes in.

And everyone else is a GM employee.

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