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Tim Cotterill's Ultimate Road Rocket

Car | Motorcycle

Tim Cotterill, a British man who created a 200mph monster trike, he called the Road Rocket. It is a five metre-long, 1225kg trike with a 1000bhp engine and handlebars so wide it took engineers 23 attempts to come up with a steering mechanism that worked for it.
"I have to say it really has exceeded all my expectations and fulfilled my wildest dreams,"
"I did get it up to 160mph on a straight stretch of road in the high desert and actually deployed the Simpson parachute just for the heck of it."
said Mr Cotterill. Watch the video!

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Forfreedom Caravan

Car | Design

ForFreedom Caravan designed by Robert Williams.
Features sandwiched fiber glass walls with closed cell insulation for proper heating, modern furnishing, offers choice of interior and exterior color choice, Internal electric heating with solar panels on the rear section to provide a more environmentally friendly alternative to standard caravans. Robert Williams writes:
"An expanding living unit, designed for the professional urban couple in need of a short break."

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Mercedes-Benz Eurocopter EC145 Helicopter

Car | Transportation

Mercedes-Benz and Eurocopter have worked together to unveil the Mercedes-Benz Style EC145 luxury helicopter. It is an eight seats, twin-engine turbine luxury helicopter, the cabin layout has been inspired by Mercedes-Benz’s new R-Class range. The EC145 is equipped with comfortable seats made of exclusive materials coupled with sumptuous wood for the floors and ceiling. All seats are mounted on rails and can be quickly and easily reconfigured or removed to make room for luggage. There are also three multi-function boxes with features such as a cool box, cup holder, table, 15-inch monitor and DVD player. The interior offers supreme flexibility for both business and private travel: in the partition wall which separates the cockpit from the cabin, extra storage space is provided by drawers.

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2010 Mini Coupe Concept

Car | Concept

"The body design of the MINI Coupé Concept also bridges the gap from the earliest days of the Mini's history all the way to the more distant future of the brand, emphasising the unique nature of the concept as well as its full membership in the MINI family. At the same time the individual and emotional design language arouses the expectation of a particularly thrilling experience on the road...

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1968 Automodule by Jean-Pierre Ponthieu

Car | Other

1968 Automodule by Jean-Pierre Ponthieu. [ link ]

Reevu MSX1 Rear View Mirror Helmet

Car | Motorcycle

The Reevu's MSX1 Helmet(£249 about $380) has a rear view mirror which uses a entirely mechanical mechanism rather than rear-view cameras. It look similar to the car's rear view mirror, with the small mirror in front resting just outside the rider's line of sight. The Reevu MSX1 is the world’s first patented rear-view helmet range that gives the wearer that all round vision. Reevu say the added functionality no way effects the safety performance of the helmet.

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The Largest Flying Boat In The World

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The Dornier Do X was largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world, it was produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929, it was called the Flugschiff (flying ship). Powered by twelve water-cooled engines, with a crew of 14 and designed to carry 66 passengers long distance or 100 on shorter flights.
"On the main deck was a smoking room with its own wet bar, a dining salon, and seating for the 66 passengers which could also be converted to sleeping berths for night flights. Aft of the passenger spaces was an all-electric galley, lavatories, and cargo hold. The cockpit, navigational office, engine control and radio rooms were on the upper deck. The lower deck held fuel tanks and nine watertight compartments, only seven of which were needed to provide full flotation."

Lamborghini Yacht by Mauro Lecchi

Car | Design

Dubbed Lamborghini yacht, the design comes from the analysis of Lamborghini car and is as exotic and luxurious as the car itself. The yacht has big intakes, and starting from the Reventon’s side view, the designer changed the intake behind the door in a huge window, to characterize the boat with a single large element.
As the yacht is merely a design, it’s assumed characteristics have a Hull length 15m, Hull width4 m, and Height 3.8m. In order to reduce weight, the lamination provides to use fiber Kevlar/carbon.
Also, in order to combine high performance and low power consumption, three different motors are assumed for the yacht: 2×700 hp Volvo Penta IPS 900 diesel, 2×950 hp diesel Seatek, 2x (3x) 550 hp v 12 - 60 ° Lamborghini petrol.
Deisgned by Mauro Lecchi.

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Nautilus VAS Luxury Submersible

Car | Transportation

If you want to get a private submersible? The VAS submersibles from US-based Nautilus Submarines is one of the best options on the list. The VAS is the only private submarine offering the option of a Diver Lockout which allows you to exit the submarine underwater while underwater. The VAS submersibles can accommodate up to 12 passengers and the Mk III version featured above carries five passengers and can do up to 10 miles or 6 knots, which allows for an 8-hour mission time in addition to a 96-hour backup, providing over four days of underwater protection. It'll set you back $2.7 million.

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Renault Debuts Europe's First Front Swivel Seat

Car | Other

"Renault is the first European motor manufacturer to include this feature in its catalogue. The swivel seat can be specified like any other option and is fitted directly at the Flins factory, in France, as the car comes off the assembly line, so there is no change to the delivery lead time for the customer," Renault said in a statement.

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Driving a Real World Car Like a Video Game Car

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"It's awesome enough that Rooster Teeth would rig up a Ford with a third-person camera, to attempt to drive like one does in a video game. What really makes this video shine are the Yakuza extras karate-kicking the test subjects...

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Hummer Stagecoach

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CEO Stagecoach by New York artist Jeremy Dean.
Dean has taken a gas guzzling 8 mile-per-gallon HUMMER H2, a symbol of extravagance, and converted it into a working horse drawn cart. Dean has pimped it out with silver chrome, working LED lights and a booming audio and video system. He calls this piece the CEO Stagecoach.

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car for sale by Casey Neistat, it is not a joke!

Car | Other

Casey Neistat writes: i am selling my car. it is a serious automobile. a 1994 bmw 530i station wagon. i am really selling it. this video is not a joke. please contact sweet94bmw@gmail.com if you want to buy it. i have some of the signs from the video and will throw them in for free.

EN-Vs

Car | Concept

Motors has teamed up with Segway to develop a series of decidedly uncool-looking Electric Networked Vehicles, EN-V, all based on the Segway's balanced platform with a carbon-fiber shell. They have a range of 25 miles and a top speed of 25 mph, They’ll use GPS, distance-sensing technology and vehicle-to-vehicle communications to ease congestion and reduce the risk of accidents. The EN-Vs are just concepts. The concept designed for Shanghai traffic, and the vehicles will be shown off at Shanghai's World Expo in May.

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Flame-Throwing Scooter

Car | Motorcycle

Colin Furze has invented a flame-throwing scooter, it works by pressing a button on the handlebar.
dailymail writes: 'It's a lot of fun and firing the flames makes me feel like James Bond,' said the plumber, 30, from Stamford in Lincolnshire. 'The flames are pretty big and up to 15ft long so you could definitely set fire to someone's car if you wanted to.'
'The only problem is it can get rather hot if you are riding the moped and blast the flames when the wind is in the wrong direction.'

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Taurus Concept

Car | Concept

The all-electric Taurus Concept designed by Erik Lanuza.
The Taurus Concept is a compact, urban-targeted, open-top, saddle-ridden vehicle balancing on two wheels. It's basically a more stylish Segway with a saddle. When driven, by leaning forward and backward the rider can control the speed and change the direction by steering wheel.

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1948 Buick Streamliner

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The beautiful 1948 Buick Streamliner by Norman E. Timbs.

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Rotel Tours Feature A Hotel On Wheels

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This tour bus owned by a German tour company features a six-foot-long bed for each of its passengers, though each bunk is only about 3 feet wide by 3 feet high. There is a bathroom on the bus, but no, there are no shower or bathing facilities. Want to go to Africa when you sleeping?
Jalopnik wirtes "The company is called Rotel Tours (the word is a portmanteau of "rolling" and "hotel") and it has, unbelieveably, been hosting bus-bed tours of Europe, Asia, and Africa since 1959. It was founded in 1945 by a man named — we are not making this up — George Hötel. His firm's buses cater almost exclusively to German tourists; in the past fifty years, they have done everything from crossing the Sahara desert to traversing Mongolia and Vietnam. "

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Dragonfly Df1 - The Rocket Powered Helicopter

Car | Transportation

Instead of using a fixed motor attached to the body of the helicopter to drive the blades, the rocket powered helicopter using small rocket motors install at the tips of the blades to power it. There is no engine installed on the Dragonfly DF1, the hydrogen peroxide rockets produce no pollution and with less vibration and improved stability. The Dragonfly can stay aloft for 50 minutes and has a maximum speed of 40 mph. Watch the video!

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VW Passat

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An awesome truck engineed wagon runs on the snow!

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Coffee Powered Car

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The 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco will be driven from Manchester to London powered only by roasted coffee granules. The pic click 2 enlarge!

"It has been built by a team from the BBC1 science programme Bang Goes The Theory and will go on display at the Big Bang science fair in Manchester to show how fuels other than conventional petrol and diesel can power vehicles.
The team calculates the Carpuccino will do three miles per kilo of ground coffee - the equivalent of about 56 espressos per mile.
The journey will use about 70 kilos of ground coffee which, at supermarket prices of between £13 and £26 a kilo depending on brand and quality, will cost between £910 and £1,820, or between 25 and 50 times the £36 cost of petrol for the journey." dailymail said.

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Awesome 60S Camper

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Cool!

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Porsche 918 Spyder Concept

Car | Concept

Porsche just released a video showing the new 918 Spyder concept, its new 918 Spyder is a mid-engined sports car with plug-in hybrid, powered by both a 500-horsepower V8 and a pair of electric motors (on the front and rear axle) producing an additional 218 hp or 160kW. It can reach 62 mph in 3.2 seconds, a top-end speed of 198 mph. The best past about it is that Porsche says it can also achieve 78 miles per gallon and emit just 70 grams of CO2 per kilometer

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Flying Hovercraft

Car | Transportation

This Flying Hovercraft is a "wing in ground effective vehicle" by Rudy Heeman of Nelson, New Zealand. He has developed a hovercraft that can fly and could be used as boat or land vehicle. Mr Heeman spent 11 years, and made in the inventor’s garage, this hovercraft is crafted while using various parts from other vehicles like scooters, BBQs, and junked cars. The hoverwing sets off like a normal-hovercraft but when it reaches top speed of 60mph, its wings can be extended and it takes flight. This machine has a 1.8 liter Subaru engine which allows for a maximum of 225 kilometers and its wings are removable. When in flight, this machine can carry only two people or 160 kg, but in hovercraft mode the capacity increases to three people. The maximum altitude of this Flying Hovercraft is around 3 meters.

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World's Largest Solar Boat Unveiled

Car | Transportation

The world's largest solar boat has been unveiled. Called PlanetSolar, which is a 31m long and 15m wide white catamaran, has been designed to reach a top speed of around 15 knots, and can hold up to 50 passengers. Power entirely by up to 500 square metres of photovoltaic solar panels. The boat’s 38,000 photovoltaic cells have been provided by SunPower, their new cells have an efficiency of at least 22%. The boat has been designed for a global circumnavigation planned for 2011. The 60 ton catamaran has been built at the cost of 18 million euro(about $24.4 million) at the Knierim Yacht Club in Kiel in northern Germany.

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Honda 3R-C Concept

Car | Concept

Honda 3R-C is a fully single-seat three-wheeler powered by a lithium ion battery, created by Honda's Milan studio. It will debut at Geneva International Motor Show 2010.
The 3R-C has a clear canopy that covers the driver's seat while it is parked and not in use. When 3R-C vehicle is in motion, the canopy becomes an enveloping wind-shield that provides the pilot, who sits low in the vehicle, with significant protection from the bodywork and doors.
The high sides of the safety shell seat give greater safety to the occupant, reducing the threat from side impacts and improving weather protection. In front of the driver is a lockable boot area, which gives significant secure storage for luggage or other items. The 3R-C's designers created a flexible cover that surrounds the upper torso to reduce exposure to bad weather and improving comfort.

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Human Car

Car | Other

The human car is a human-powered car by Chuck Greenwood. Its lastest version - HumanCar Imagine_PS, an electric hybrid that combines human and electrical power.

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Peugeot Concept

Car | Concept

Peugeot Concept is a personal mobility car concept designed by Yuji Fujimura. [ Photos: ji Fujimura ]

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EB-48S Concept

Car | Concept

The EB-48S Concept designed by Emil Badal, featuing a mide engined V6 Supercharged 4.8L, LED lighting...
It’s another breed of EB brand, a mid engined V6 Supercharged 4.8L. The whole lighting system in this car is based on hi-bright LEDs with Neon back lights in the front. The tail-lights in EB-48S have 3 sections which their lights changes between three common colors(Red,Orange and white) continuously depending on the conditions. For example in day-light if the driver turn on the turn-indicator the whole tail-light flashes with the orange LED and if he brakes while turning two sections out of three turn red. In other words the tail-lights are prioritized, maximizing the amount of awareness for other drivers.

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Richard Branson’s Underwater Plane

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After owning a mobile phone company, an airline company, a Caribbean island and some luxury restaurants, billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s latest possession is an underwater plane dubbed the Necker Nymph. It can dive to depths of up to 130ft, Richard hopes to one day explore depths of 35,000ft, and it will cost Branson around 415,000 British pounds.
The Necker Nymph is is relatively small and can carry just three people, one pilot and two passengers.The luxury sub has fighter jet technology and is piloted with a joystick. While most subs use ballast to propel subs under the water, the Nymph uses downward 'lift' on the wings to fly down. It was designed and built by Graham Hawkes.

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