Showcased at the Shanghai Auto show was the Tong Jian S11 which offers the best of both worlds. The car designers have lifted the best design elements of Audi R8 and Ferrari F430 to create this masterpiece. If the car ever goes into production there are a couple of lawsuits in line. (More images after the jump)...
Thinking out of the box has been the theme of the 20th century. Looking at what we have here, I dread the abuse of ideas that are yet to come. Yet, I have to be hypocritical about the effort and thought put into the making of these jet powered pickups. A certain Chris Lentz from Michigan decided to load his truck with a massive M-701 jet engine. The result? He landed up with a monster machine that could do...
BMW has announced that it will be adding gas prices, weather forecasts and also stock indices to its existing Google Maps connection. The drivers will be able to view a list of nearby fuel stations with gas prices and yes select the cheapest. Weather forecasts will show up graphically rich in a three-day forecast style for the current location of your car or destination. Stock advices will be provided by Bloomberg and will be limited to Dow, NASDAQ and...
Nissan’s European arm has announced that the new GT-R has made its way into the Italian version of the Guinness Book of World Record. The supercar from Japan has clocked 3.5 seconds for becoming the fastest in the 0-100 kmph acceleration by a 4 seater series production car. In April, Nissan has published that the GT-R established a new lap time of 7 minutes and 26.7 seconds at the Nordschleife circuit in Germany. [Carscoop]...
Images of the new Lamborghini LP550-2 have been leaked online ahead of the car’s official launch. Details of this beauty are still scarce but some things can be inferred from the name itself like it could be packed with 550 HP and rear-wheel drive. Unlike the Gallardo LP560-4, the LP550-2 is slightly detuned version of Lamborghini’s 5.2L V10. This makes it weigh 66 pounds less. Performance figures are not known but then you can bet it will do 0-60...
The Episode 2 of Top Gear’s 13th season that was aired in the UK was really a heart stopper. The main event was the one mile drag race between two super cars – the McLaren F1 and the Bugatti Veyron. Both these cars are rare and seeing them together on a drag race is well, no chance, forget rare. The venue chosen by the team was Abu Dhabi because of the arid climate with no rain or snow and...
Phil McGee of McGee Racing Cams, Indiana, PA has made a drag car using a Harley Davidson engine. This 17 ft long car was built using a Harley-Davidson Twin Cam 88 engine and 5-speed transmission. The carbureted engine was completely rebuilt and is not yet broken in. It even has a NHRA certified chrome chassis, fiberglass body with a lexan windscreen. This drag car has not made its debut on any racing car yet, but it is geared for...
The nearly forgotten Nazi aircraft, the Horten 2-29 has been recreated by top stealth-plane experts. This retro-futuristic fighter plane is recreated as part of a documentary last year to uncover the secrets of the technological advancement of the Nazi forces. Nazi engineers came very close to unleash this radar resistant plane and had it been mass produced, it would have changed the course of the war. The experts have recreated this plane with the sole motive of uncovering these...
Klaus Hammerschmidt from Germany is one heck of a loyal BMW customer. This 73 year old retired entrepreneur has just bought his 135th BMW, complete with a 507HP M6 coupe equipped with the Competition Package. Klaus got his very first BMW, an 1800ti from 1963 and his love for BMWs has continued ever since. In the past he has owned 26 BMW M-division models, 29 BMW Alpina cars and 80 other BMWs. If you do the math, he has...
After seeing cars powered by H2O, we have now landed on the ultimate means of clean driving with a car that’s powered by air. There are limitations of course, but it’s awfully true that air is a lot more available than water, though not in the purest of forms. It’s called the AirPod, and it serves the purpose for just one passenger. Though there is some room to squeeze in a few scrawny bodies at the rear end of...
The first time you see this cool sidecar zoom past you, you’ll end up wondering, ‘is it a bike or a car?’ Isn’t that intriguing? It sure is. As we can see, the sidecar is made to resemble a car, in such a manner that the front wheel of the bike and the left, front wheel of the car is the same. It’s same is the case with the back wheel. Francois Knorreck spent ten years designing and building...
Say hello to the big brother of Dakota 10, the Garmin Dakota 20. Dakota 20 has pretty much the same appearance as Dakota 10; talk about specifications, there is a lot inside. Dakota 20 has a battery life of 20 hours and comes with a MicroSD card to store more stuff, like maps, a 3-axis compass, tilt compensated electronic compass and also a barometric altimeter. It also comes with wireless connectivity feature that lets you share waypoints, tracks, routes...
Unlike most of the horizontally terrestrial vehicles we have seen here, the Peugeot Metromorph Concept is capable of scaling up vertical surfaces. Think about all the good things that will come through with cars that don’t need elaborate parking spaces. Just climb out your window and crawl into the car that’s parked right outside your apartment, no matter which floor you live on. If you wonder about how hard it will be to mount such an awkwardly parked vehicle,...
Some ultra rich, ultra spoiled and ultra bored guys had found a new way to enjoy the Phantom. These rich hooligans have attempted to perform donuts around other parked cars with a Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead. Well for those of you who don’t know, this car weighs close to 3 tonnes with fuel and passengers and a super, I mean really super luxurious and an extremely expensive car, which probably if I start saving today, will not be able...
Lightlane was a cool concept for cyclists. Fortunately the response was overwhelming from all over the world that the manufacturers are looking into commercializing the product. The product uses super bright red LEDs as well as two high visibility Diode-Pumped Solid State green lasers to project the path that will help protect bikers on the streets. The final result is that both biker and his or her path are visible. An excellent concept and congrats to all to make...
