Monthly Archives: September 2008
- September 30, 2008
- Sweet Digital Mockups of Fantasy Ferrari Motorcycle
Never in a million years will Ferrari build a motorcycle — and with Ducatis being so awesome who needs it to? — but it’s fun to think about what might roll out of Maranello if it ever decided to give two-wheelers a try.
Many have envisioned such a machine and a few have actually built one [...]
- September 30, 2008
- German Supertuner RUF Building an Electric Porsche
The speedmeisters at German tuning haus RUF are hard at work developing an electric version of the Porsche Cayman that could go head-to-head with the Tesla Roadster, and we could see it as early as next month.
The car will feature a 150-kilowatt motor (about 201 horsepower) producing 479 ft-pounds of torque, and its lithium-ion battery [...]
- September 30, 2008
- Honda’s Building a Hybrid Motorcycle
Honda Motor Co., the world’s leading motorcycle manufacturer, is developing a gas-electric motorcycle that would use a hybrid drivetrain much like the one in the forthcoming Honda Insight, and it could be in showrooms within two years.
Startups like Zero Motorycles and Brammo already offer electric motorcycles, but the major manufacturers have been slow to join [...]
- September 23, 2008
- Chrysler’s Promise: An EV By 2010
Chrysler, all but left for dead by most industry watchers, surprised just about everyone in Detroit this morning by announcing it has not one but three electric vehicles in the pipeline and we’ll see the first of them in showrooms by 2010.
The stunning announcement instantly propelled the smallest of the Big Three automakers to the [...]
- September 18, 2008
- It’s a Car…It’s a Plane…It’s BOTH!
This is the latest auto-aero innovation from Moller, the minds that brought you the much-hyped but never built SkyCar. This time they’re sexing it up a notch — their new Autovolantor is a road/air hybrid that’s built in the shell of a Ferrari 599 GTB. Yup, a flying sports car.
Moller’s two-passenger flying Ferrari, if it [...]
- September 18, 2008
- Volvo Thinks Locusts Can Make Us Safer Drivers
Volvo is determined to build an injury-proof car by 2020, and the engineers working out the bugs developing so complex a vehicle hope to include a few as well. They’re studying the African locust to figure out how to make cars mimic the insect’s uncanny ability to avoid crashing into each other as they swarm.
The [...]
- September 18, 2008
- 10 bizarre things made from car parts
Trying to safe and protect our environment, people attempt to recycle car parts naturally. Here are some ways of such “recycling”.
1. Would you like to sit down? If you have got a lemon car inherited from your granny or grandpa you can turn the front part of it into a cool sofa.
2. If you are [...]
- September 3, 2008
- BMW Builds a Shape-Shifting Car Out of Cloth
Concept cars give automotive designers a chance to let their imaginations run wild, often with outlandish results. But even by that measure, BMW has come up with something as strange as it is innovative — a shape-shifting car covered with fabric.
Instead of steel, aluminum or even carbon fiber, the GINA Light Visionary Model has a [...]
