The Lightning GT electric vehicle has been unveiled at the London Motor Show. The details pencil-in a carbon fiber body that makes it light. The car can hit 0 to 60 in 4 seconds flat. It is powered by four in-wheel electric motors to produce the equivalent of 700 horsepower. The car will also sport all the fancy stuff expected out of a luxury coupe, including leather, air conditioning and satellite navigation. Although no pricing has been revealed, Lightning...

At a recent presentation, MINI USA VP Jim McDowell clarified that there is no concrete news on the car's US debut, except that will be in "regular customers hands" by the summer of 2009. Although he could not specify what type of battery that will be in the cars, he did say that MINI would make a further announcement later this year, probably at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Furthermore, it has not yet been finalized whether the cars...

General Motors have devised this excellent concept of windshield that will provide larger than life support for aged drivers who have visual problems during bad weather. The windshield will make potential hurdles stand out. It will be equipped with a laser that will help in guessing the edge of the road and infrared sensors that detects animals, people and other obstacles. All this with a display above the head of the driver that displays information like the speed or...

If the Bugatti Veyron seems too lame and you feel like experimenting with something new, then how about the Triton Model 1000 from U.S. Submarines. While the former lets you rule the road, the latter makes you the king of deep seas. This personal sub can take you and a friend 1,000 feet straight down, and keep you there for 6 hours. It has been engineered specifically for deployment from megayachts. It has overall height of 1.8 meters and...

With the traffic going crazy and everyone concentrating on the high skies, two University of Seoul student designers Sungchul Yang and Woonghee Han are planning on exploiting the other mode-water. Now I know boats have been around for centuries, but what these boys are trying to provide is a novel way of individual transport. The Aqua submersible watercraft is a one-person craft that is capable of skimming the waters as well as plunging deep beneath. Sporting a dolphin like...

The British are developing an invisible tank which will be ready to hit the battlefields by 2012. But the Australians have beat them in their own game. Source...

I spent much of last week in anticipation for the weekend as the years and probably the decade's most awaited movie was to be released. First things first, the was the best comic book movie EVER. So this week, I've been busy reading articles relating to the Dark Knight, I just can't seem to get enough. Without giving anything away, the Bat-Pod moment in the movie was one of the most awe inspiring and got an applause from everyone...

Train travel in Italy is about to get a makeover as Nuovo Transporto Viaggiatori (ntv), an independent company plans to introduce 25 new sparkling red high speed trains. The 11 carriage train will seat 460 and zip at 360 kms an hour on Italian tracks. The trains will compete directly with Trenitalia, the main Italian train company. Source (Italian) via Core77...

Thieve have it in them to make a jump at anything that’s valuable and left unattended. Well, the cops stationed at Arlington County have decided to use this technique to nab them. All they do is leave a car in an apparent unattended state and wait for the thieves to break open the car. Once that’s done, they monitor the movements of the thief with the help of a hidden camera. An alarm is set off and the police...

They say that the Parajet Skycar will be the world's first carbon neutral flying car. But what piques my interest is that a Skycar Expedition team plans to fly/drive/whatever the vehicle from London to Timbouctou in 2009. Using a combination of flight and driving to combat the Saharan terrain will cover the 3000 miles journey. A cross between a dune buggy and a paraglide, the Parajet Skycar is a unique vehicle. A biodiesel-modified Yamaha R1 1000cc motorcycle engine powers...

Did you know that the Antonov An-124 Ruslan was the largest airplane ever mass-produced until production of the Airbus A380 started? During development it was known as the An-400 and An-40 in the West, and it flew for the first time in 1982. Ironically, it's an Antonov An-124 freighter operated by Russia's Polet that transported the new Emirates A380 gateway model to Heathrow Airport, London. The model has been built by California-based Penwal Industries, arrived in an in early...

Not many know that in the early years of the 21st century, the main battle computer of a Royal Navy destroyer was still based around two 24-bit, 1 MHz processors each with 25KB of RAM. Similarly the B-2 Stealth Bomber up to now had an obsolete hardware with its equally obsolete programming language. The current OFP (Operational Flight Program) was written in a now-obsolete programming language called JOVIAL. A recent B-2 crash shortly after takeoff at the Pacific island...

As earlier announced a new update on the Telsa Electric Roadster vehicle shows us some more pictures of the $60K Model S, which is an all-electric "sports" sedan with a range of 225 miles in a single charge. Already 9 production Roadsters have arrived in California, another 3 arrive this weekend, and they will keep arriving at the rate of 4 per week, there are 27 Roadsters in various stages of assembly. They are waiting to install their in-house...

Acting as a handy gadget that helps you keep your gas bills low, the PLX Kiwi is just what you need to help you drive better. It keeps a tab your driving capabilities and computes a way that will help you increase your gas mileage. At the risk of being labeled as a backseat driver, the device nags you about your diving so much that your wife's bickering pales in comparison. It tabs your smoothness, drag, acceleration and deceleration...