Published by Dragos Pirvu
Another weird designed-car. It’s a 1957 Fletcher Aviator and it’s a remake of a 50s/60s Bonneville F-100 tank racer and it even has license plates. It has an asking price of $55,000, a little too much for a reproduction, so we wouldn’t recommend it just for the design.
. Dec 13, 2007
Filed under: Retro
Published by Dragos Pirvu
Now it’s official, KITT, Knight Rider’s car, is a Ford Shelby GT500KR Mustang. The car will appear in the new series of Knight Rider. The special two-hour movie will have its premiere next year, on 17 February. Until then you can pleasure your eyes with the photo above.
. Dec 13, 2007
Filed under: Ford, Super Cars
Published by Dragos Pirvu
Andy Hazell, proud owner of a Vauxhall Corsa, decided to do something special with his car. He built on top of it an 18-feet Sea Bass, decorated it with 320 fluorescent lights, also he made a hydraulic system to control the tail, the mouth and its fins. It’s not the first time he tried to [...]
. Dec 13, 2007
Filed under: Vauxhall
Published by Dragos Pirvu
Ascari A10 is on top of Top Gear’s Power Lap board after beating the time of Koenigsegg CCX by three tenths of a second. The official time is 1:17.3, much better then the A10’s brother, KZ1, with a lap time of 1:20.7. This supercar was driven by The Stig, the anonymous extraordinary pilot from Top [...]
. Dec 12, 2007
Filed under: Ascari
Published by Dragos Pirvu
The Automotive X-Prize contest will be held at the New York Show in March, although the 43 competitors will show up for a preliminary appearance at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2008. The main purpose of the teams fighting for the Auto X-Prize will be providing a production-capable vehicle that exceeds 100 mpg. Aptera, [...]
. Dec 12, 2007
Filed under: Hybrid cars