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Aren't these creative?
I like this one the best - the eyes are so cool!
Showing posts with label car. Show all posts
Showing posts with label car. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2009
Crazy Advertising Art On The Bus
7:52 PM
automotive
Aren't these creative?
I like this one the best - the eyes are so cool!
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Cool Truck Art
2:37 PM
automotive
Ok, you guessed it - these were photoshopped...
They'd be even more cool if the art was for real!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
9,000 Miles To The Gallon - WOW!
11:14 PM
automotive
The Microjoule competition car is an amazingly green vehicle that can "make the journey between New York and Los Angeles over three times on just one gallon of gas."
It has won Shell's Eco-Marathon every time since the car's original inception in 1992. "Amazingly the Microjoule doesn't have any fancy tricks — it's just an aerodynamic, lightweight one-seater that runs off gasoline, but runs for a long time."
Wow! That's nearly 9,000 miles on a single gallon of gas.
I want that car!!
source: dvice
Friday, July 11, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
A Car That Runs On Air?
1:43 AM
automotive
Yes, it's true. The Air Car will be starting production soon, thanks to India 's TATA Motors in collabration with a France based company, Motor Development International (MDI). Why is it that a gasless vehicle that eliminates the reason to buy oil from foreign countries isn't already being manufactured here in this country? That's what I'd like to know!!
The $12,700 CityCAT, one of the planned Air Car models, reaches 68 mph, goes for a range of 125 miles. It will take only a few minutes for the CityCAT to refuel at gas stations equipped with custom air compressor units. MDI says it should cost only around $2 to fill the car up with 340 liters of air!
According to reports the first compressed air technology car or CAT car to be produced would be called the OneCAT, a basic car for urban and rural driving specifically designed to be driven in congested cities and priced in the $5,100 to $7,800 range. Wow! And it's cheap too!!
The French company has developed several prototypes of its car since it created the first engine 14 years ago (!!!). It was also expected to bring out a car based on the compressed air technology in 2002. But with speed and power being an issue and in an era when fuel prices were no big deal global carmakers did not risk commercialising CAT cars in the western world. (Stupid, huh?)
Tata Motors is expected to begin production of the air car this year. Spain and Australia are other countries which will also begin manufacture of air cars.
This is what the engine looks like. I can't wait to buy one!!
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Smallest Motorized Car
11:48 PM
automotive
The current Guinness Book of Records for the world-s smallest motorized car. It is a miniature version of Toyota-s first passenger car, the 1936 Model AA sedan. Its size is astounding: 1/1000th the size of the actual car or about the size of a grain of rice. Dimensions are: 4.785 mm long, 1.73 mm wide and 1.736 mm tall. The car has a total of 24 parts which come in 13 different types including body, tires, spare tire, wheels, axle, bearings, headlights, rearlights, front bumper, rear bumper, step, number plate and emblem.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
An Amazing Vintage Cadillac
11:00 PM
automotive
From a very old copy of Mechanics Illustrated comes this remarkable piece:
If you saw Louis Mattar's car rolling along the streets of San Diego, CA, you'd probably consider it just another attractive automobile. But if you looked inside the car you'd find everything from a barbecue pit to a Hookah. And he might even let you take a shower just off the right fender.
Taking a puff on his Arabian water pipe, Mattar turns on the wire recorder for a playback of some dictation.
Here the engine compartment is filled with mechanisms. In foreground is the hot water reservoir. Mattar's hand rests on one of three pumps which operate the plumbing.
On the right, electric barbecue slides out along the back-seat armrest and Mattar prepars a snack for a guest. Lid pivots down and the "hot dogs" roas inside the container. Note the soda fountain with pull-out sink on the left.
If you saw Louis Mattar's car rolling along the streets of San Diego, CA, you'd probably consider it just another attractive automobile. But if you looked inside the car you'd find everything from a barbecue pit to a Hookah. And he might even let you take a shower just off the right fender.
Taking a puff on his Arabian water pipe, Mattar turns on the wire recorder for a playback of some dictation.
Here the engine compartment is filled with mechanisms. In foreground is the hot water reservoir. Mattar's hand rests on one of three pumps which operate the plumbing.
On the right, electric barbecue slides out along the back-seat armrest and Mattar prepars a snack for a guest. Lid pivots down and the "hot dogs" roas inside the container. Note the soda fountain with pull-out sink on the left.
Wow!
What an amazing car!
What an amazing car!
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Strange Parking Places
4:13 PM
automotive
The places people put their cars!!
You gotta wonder... How'd they do that?
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
