If you really want to see the future of everyday transportation, you have to look no farther than the racing series happening right around the corner. As much for entertainment and competition as it is a testbed for new technology, the highly competitive nature of racing forces engineers and manufacturers to put their best foot forward if they hope to stand out (and beat!) the rest of the crowd. The American Le Mans Series is one of my favorite... 

Lexus has teased us again with another test track outing for the company’s long-rumored LF-A supercar – this time with barely a stitch of camo cladding. The Lexus LF-A supercar concept seems to have had an excruciatingly long journey from the multi-concept stage to production…  Read More →

Forget about California’s long-promised hydrogen highway.  Read More →

Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard and current CEO Elon Musk have quietly settled their legal bickering, kissed and made up. No one’s offering any details because the terms are confidential, but Tesla Motors confirmed that that two men have “resolved their dispute.” That dispute, you’ll recall, started when Eberhard filed a lawsuit in June accusing Musk of taking control of the company, orchestrating his ouster in 2007... 

Silicon Valley startup Better Place has signed a deal with Renault to put 100,000 electric vehicles on the road in Israel and Denmark by 2016. That is a staggering number of cars in remarkably little time, and it underscores how committed the two companies are to seeing EVs take off. Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn has long said cars with cords are the future, and he said the deal will make the Fluence ZE (”Zero Emission”) the world’s... 

Tinkering is the name of the game between Edo Competition and Ferrari’s flagship Enzo. We told you about the Edo Competition Ferrari Enzo XX just two months ago, yet here we are telling you about an even more extreme version of that already insane hypercar.  Read More →

Posted on 09.15.2009 02:12 by Simona Alina Filed under: Audi | 2009 | convertible | Frankfurt Auto Show | sports cars | Audi R8 It’s finally official: the long waited Audi R8 Spider made its world debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and as previously reported it will only be available with the 5.2 FSI quattro engine. Sales in Europe will begin in the first quarter of 2010 and prices will start from 156,400 euros ($227,000 at the current... 

We’ve seen some really cool eco-friendlier conversions in the past week or so, what with the guy who built an electric El Camino , that cool diesel swap Mercedes-Benz did on an old 190D and, of course, the incredibly awesome DIY electric motorcycle Tom Miceli built. It got us thinking — always a dangerous proposition — about what we’d build if we had a garage, a few sacks of cash and maybe a plasma cutter  Read More →

Two months. That’s all the time a 22-year-old college kid who spent his school days drawing fast cars needed to build one off the coolest electric motorcycles we’ve ever seen.  Read More →

Here’s one for the “surprising” list: a consortium of researchers and business partners at the University of East Anglia in Britain has found that they can convert diesel buses to run on either diesel or methane for a “small fraction of the cost” of purchasing a natural gas-only bus.  Read More →

McLaren Automotive officially presented MP4-12C supercar, previously known under the code name P11 and is the first car from the time of the legendary F1.  Read More →

Sapphire Energy hopes to change the world in ways so radical you won’t even notice. Before it does that, though, it’s going on a cross-country road trip using only 60 gallons of fuel made from slime.  Read More →

A couple of days ago we brought you this Overkill CLK. Today we bring you another CLK spotted in Malaysia, this time its a W209 series CLK sporting a questionable CLK DTM AMG kit. Again we are unsure who has made this kit, but we have managed to rule it out as being the Inden  Read More →

Posted on 09.2.2009 15:07 by Maxx Biker Filed under: Honda | parts accesories | Tuners | Honda CB | streetfighter We’re all familiar with the Honda CBR1000RR by AD Koncept and the French tuners are now widening our motorcycles & bunnies universe with the introduction of a new Playboy version, this time of the Honda CB1000R. The first thing that stands out at this attractive streetfighter is the white paintjob (rims included) “spiced”... 

Posted on 09.2.2009 15:00 by Terence Keon Filed under: Volkswagen | 2009 | Frankfurt Auto Show | hatchback | Volkswagen Polo | diesel cars The Polo BlueMotion was first unveiled this past March as a concept in Geneva, Volkswagen has plans of bringing the production version of the very efficient alternatively fueled compact city car to the Frankfurt Motor Show with sales slated to begin early in 2010. The Polo BlueMotion is powered by a newly...