Every self-respecting guy loves a macho truck. Big wheels a bigger chassis and of course the roar of an engine that has the more horse power than you could imagine. Turns out though, the designers at Ford could imagine and they built the truck that proved it. Not to be a sexist of course but this Ford F650 Pickup has been dubbed The Frictionator which is hardly a girly name. I’m not entirely sure how this monster’s been classified...
When Mercedes says they want you to get personal with your car, they aren’t fooling around. Just recently Mercedes-Benz USA and Hughes Telematics, Inc. have launched mbrace, a new telematics offering that brings an unprecedented level of connectivity to Mercedes-Benz drivers and begins the process of allowing them to customize their in-vehicle experiences to fit their daily needs. The system very seriously personifies "connected services" by allowing drivers to connect with their vehicles via an iPhone or BlackBerry, and...
Nothing comes without struggle. But hey, not everyone struggles to screw around with weird-ass experiments and non-sense tricks because there’s always someone or the other in this world who tries the hard part for us. Like, for instance, I wondered what it would be to have a fully working, edible car. Thanks to this Porsche dealer in the Netherlands, we actually have one right before us. It may not really be fully edible, and the plastic below the layer...
F35B is the world’s first supersonic jump jet. It’s a combination of both jump jets and supersonic jets put together under one hood. The jet can come in handy when there are no catapult aircraft carriers or when the runway’s not the best place to be. Besides its primary functions, the jet also has stealth technology that keeps it from being detected by the bad guys....
Andy House has all my sympathies. The poor guy was cruising in his $1.2 million Bugatti Veyron which had clocked less than 500 miles when he got distracted by a low flying pelican and drove his car into a salt water lagoon. The above footage was shot by two car enthusiasts and posted on Youtube....
Make a grab for this one as soon as you can, if you have a hundred thousand dollars to splurge. Behold, it isn’t going to be up for grabs for too long but as long as it is, there shall be tall claims that this Neiman Marcus can live up to its 150 mile/hour top speed and a battery operated engine that can drive it 150 miles on a single charge! These ‘Mission One’ bikes are set to what...
You can definitely expect an oil rich sheikh to turn his Murcielago into a huge mirror. But some dude across the Atlantic has tried the same to get attention. Isnt the revving of a Lamborghini enough to turn heads? [Autoblog]...
MV Augusta has launched their 2004 Superbike that somehow managed to get a F4 hot iron branding. The company though, has stated that ‘perfection’ is the driving force behind the designing of this bike. The bike’s engine and chassis have been completely redesigned, thus dropping the overall weight by 22 pounds as compared to the 2009 model. The inline-four engine provides 186 horsepower and a 12-horse gain as well. Other features include Marelli 7BM ECU that controls eight fuel...
Finally Ford decides that it is about time that people that are not behind the wheel of a car also need to be protected against crashes! The gen-next Ford Explorer will come equipped with inflatable rear seatbelts which will inflate automatically when an accident occurs. The idea is not to cushion the body during the moment of impact, but according to Ford it aims at reducing "head, neck and chest injuries for rear seat passengers, often children and older...
The brunt borne by driving assistants is often the more notorious snarls and ‘shut ups!’ that are hurled at them as they try to bring some conversation into life. Why, even driving long distances can make a driver (who has both hands full), want to converse. Imagine the plight of the poor assistant. Thanks to the AIDA (Affective Intelligent Driving Assistant) robot, drivers can now replace their ‘only human’ assistants with something more obedient and metallic. According to the...
Make sure that if you get to own a BMW, you also have a darned iPhone. Else you’re going to be nothing short of jealous. BMW is getting an all new BMW App Store that will provide Beamer owners with some really cool applications that they can use to pep up their iPhone-car experience. Various applications will fit into this suite that includes travel guides, geowikis, games, podcasts, Xing, Facebook and Twitter. Sweet enough I’d say. Drivers would have...
Luxury fairs and auto shows are the place to discover luxury cars in bling avatars. The latest to join the list of chrome plated cars is this $300,000 Mercedes that showed up at the Millionaire Fair Moscow 2009. In past we have come across chrome versions of Lamborghini Murcielago, Ferrari 599 and a BMW M3, but this silver Kamrus Mercedes SLR 750 stole the show at this years Millionaire fair. Though, a diamond-encrusted Mercedes car ruled the Moscow Millionaire...
Hell yeah! I loved Death Race and all the twisting and turning of metal as the cars rammed into obstacles and into one another. Though they didn’t really last a whole tide of atrocities, durability was something the makers worked on. That’s because they didn’t have this powerful vehicle armor by German company Mutec that’s been testing and bragging about the effectiveness of their vehicle defense on a Rolls Royce Phantom....
I am not a Mini fan, I prefer the Beetle over it. But for all those Mini aficionados here is a 15 minute time lapse video showing your favorite car from the yesteryears to its full modern day glory. [Likecool]...
Now here’s something that really looks like a whale in the sky but will surely travel at a hundred times more the speed. Technically, it’s called the WB-1010 and will demonstrate what we would see 85 years from now. Wow, that sounds a lot more possible than the movies that tell us tales of 2045. It has the capacity to accommodate 1500 passengers and can transport them at speeds of up to a whopping 1000 kmph! The material of...
