Category Archives: General
- July 8, 2008
- Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW– also posted in Volkswagen
With gas prices going through the roof and regulators requiring cars to be ever more miserly, Volkswagen is bringing new meaning to the term “fuel efficiency” with a bullet-shaped microcar that gets a stunning 282 235 mpg.
Volkswagen’s had its super-thrifty One-Liter Car concept vehicle — so named because that’s how much fuel it needs to [...]
- June 28, 2008
- Dragon Cars take Russia by storm– also posted in Tuners
In Krasnoyarsk, Russia they are obsessed with creating dragon-cars these days. It became a real mania among some of the youngsters of this city.
You know how when a car has a real powerful engine we say it is a monster? Well, in the small town of Krasnoyarsk, Russia when they call a car a monster, [...]
- April 15, 2008
- Pink Mania is Coming
Looks like that in Russia and the ex republics of the USSR it becomes more and more fashionable to drive pink. See the cars spotted in the Russian and Ukrainian streets.
People call such cars “the car for blondes” or “blondiemobile” because of the color.
- April 7, 2008
- The Top 20 Sports Cars of All Time
In 2007 the Audi RS4 won the “World Performance Car” award.
Among its competitors, we had Porsches, Ferraris and Jaguars. Do we need to add anything else
- April 3, 2008
- Motor Festival in Moscow
Just some pictures of skillfully painted cars from the Moscow motor festival “Aerograph 2007? (aerograph – air brush).
- March 25, 2008
- Cirbin V13R – Car or Bike?
I don’t know for sure if this is a bike or a car. This is why I would like to ask all our readers to submit their comments to see what the new Cirbin V13R is.
Word is that this Harley-powered vehicle (first hint probably?) will soon go live on the streets with a retro fiberglass [...]
- January 31, 2008
- NAIAS Tech Tidbits: The designers have had their moment, now let’s hear it for the engineers!
Most of the 6000-plus journalists who flock to Detroit in January aim their cameras at the concept and production-car debuts and point their digital voice recorders at the company bosses and design chiefs.
Fair enough, those are the stories most of you are clamoring for during press days. But step behind the curtains and venture up [...]
- January 31, 2008
- The high-speed sports car that turns into a boat at the touch of a button
It’s the sort of car that any self-respecting secret agent would be proud to be seen in.
This high-speed amphibious sports car can swim, hover above water and it’s no slouch when it comes to flat-out speed either.
At the push of a button a hydraulic mechanism transforms the sports car into a propeller-powered boat.
At the flick [...]
- January 30, 2008
- Fisker considering Detroit for production of the Karma hybrid
We were captivated by the Karma plug-in hybrid when it was unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this month.
Its curvaceous, aggressive design combined with its ability to go 50 miles without using any gas seems like a bargain at the projected starting price of $80,000.
Fisker is hoping to deliver its first Karma to customers [...]
- December 7, 2007
- Winner of Batman Forever Batmobile auction can’t drive car in public
Our friends over at Hemmings who follow the auction scene like crack-addled chipmunks came across the mobile bane of the Batman franchise. The Batman Forever iteration of the Batmobile is one of the worst ever devised.
Universally panned along with the film in which it appeared, it was forced to do sit-com work after it was [...]
