Posts Tagged ‘ Car ’

Ford Focus TV ad

A new TV ad for the Ford focus where all the music is played on instruments made from car parts. Not sure what that says about the car, but it’s cool either way. [ READ MORE ]

Tesla Roadster – A truly 100% electric car

AutoblogGreen has a great review of the Tesla roadster. This car can go 0-60 in 4 seconds,and goes 200 miles on a single charge. Making it the not only one of the most powerful electric cars, but also the first practical electric car. No matter where you sit on the global warming debates, reducing dependence on [ READ MORE ]

Split Personality Wooden Car

A Ukrainian guy, Vasily Lazarenko, with way too much time on his hands built this car. The car body is made completely out of wood, which isn’t all that unusual these days. Seems like wooden cars are popping up all over the place. I posted about a Japanese one back in July, and an Italian [ READ MORE ]

Man made tornado in a car museum

Would you believe that the largest man made tornado in the world is in a car museum? Yep, that picture you see in the post is of the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. The architect didn’t want to build the fire doors required by the local fire code. he thought it would mess up his design. So instead, [ READ MORE ]

Bugatti Veyron

With a top speed of 250 miles an hour, the Bugatti Veyron is one of the fastest cars in the world. It’s also a marvel of engineering and design. Oh, and did I mention it’s street legal? Yes, this isn’t one of those Formula 1 cars that you can’t drive on regular roads. This [ READ MORE ]

Steam powered cars

Picture of Doble E Series from http://www.stanleysteamers.com Interesting Thing of The Day, a great site for offbeat and forgotten information, has an amazing article about the history of steam powered cars. Before reading the article, I had always assumed that the engineering and practicality hurdles of a steam powered car had never been solved. Turns out [ READ MORE ]

Wooden Supercar made by furniture company

JapanProbe has a story about a Japanese supercar made entirely out of wood. Apparently it is a promotional vehicle made by a furniture company in Japan. The car has a max speed of 80km/h. It’s pretty cool looking. The video below is in Japanese, but it does show the car in action. Via JapanProbe: Japanese Wooden Supercar [ READ MORE ]

Cell Phones scrambling Nissan Key fobs

I seems that if you own a Nissan Altima or the Infiniti G35, you need to keep the key away from your cell phone. Close proximity to the phone, when it is receiving a call, can scramble the electronic code used by the key fob. Once the key code is scrambled, you can no longer [ READ MORE ]

Air Powered cars

A company in India is starting to mass produce the first air powered car. Rather than run on electricity, gasoline, or hydrogen, this car runs on compressed air. It will go up to 68 miles per hour, and has a range or about 125 miles on a single tank. You can refuel it anywhere you [ READ MORE ]

USB power in your car

I really don’t know why someone didn’t think of this before. With as many devices as there are out there that charge using a USB port, this could be really useful. 12 volt power extenders, aren’t anything new. In fact I’ve got one in my car right now. But adding a USB charge port to [ READ MORE ]