[transport] - hyperbike
rollerman plus downhill. ummmm...
airstream bambi trailer and deseo caravans, scrummy
[transport] - Formula 1 racecar, suspended
[transport] - pac-man bike spokes
Umanned Ground Combat Vehicle Video (via)
Universal Motorcycle Hand Signals
Reliant Kitten. so wrong. article in french, but all the blame is on the british.
[transport] - Dagen H "the day ... on which traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right. ... all non-essential traffic was banned from the roads from 1:00 am to 6:00 am. Any vehicles on the roads during that time had to follow special rules. All vehicles had to come to a complete stop at 4:45 am and, after waiting five minutes, carefully change to the right-hand side of the road and then stop again before being allowed to proceed at 5:00 am." (larger pic)
Extreme Tractor(wmv 4mb (server slow to start))
How to build an Airbus A380 in about 7 Mins - Google Video
and how to tow a plane (wmv 21mb)
extreme dashboard and an unhappy driver and custom bodywork and size means nothing.
If lego made car engines and innards that looked like you might imagine that could, I would So learn mechanics. And if the whole car was made of lego, you could use a zorb as an airbag, and just explode out in a shower of bricks and bounce in any crash...!
[transport] - backyard monorails for dogs
Vintage Golf Cart Parts. oh wow.
Daihatsu Move Latte X. standard immaculate design touches, including the most adorably useless toolkit i've yet seen. (yes yes, it's a girl's car. i still want one.)
junkyard jewels: field of dreams. "classic custom unrestored diecast 1/18 scale replica collectables for sale". genius. (closeups)
Universal Hovercraft. yikes.
see also: Hovercraft ride gale (1.5mb wmv). much more amusing.
2004 Toyota Engineering Society Festival - Mechanical Centipeded
[transport] - Para-Cycle - Photo & Video Gallery
The Steam Car Club of Great Britain videos galore. many more via frontpage.
two new video for the Wheelman: wheelman2.mov (3mb) and wheelman.wmv (14mb)
One Second in the life of a racer.
[transport] - Funny cars you see in London
Brent and Eivind's Couchbike Adventure (good pictures on pages 2, 7, 8, 10+)
Tiny 3-wheeled car - The CLEVER Project tilts through corners, same as the earlier (and already in production) Carver One (€30,000) (videos). See also the Volkswagen GX3 concept.
Arbortech Airboard - movie(.mov 3.5mb). crazy aussies.
[transport] - Bicycle roller skates
Rube Goldberg, Your Bike is Here (via)
Porsche 968 Snowplow for when your Antarctic Snow Cruiser is broken. (via)
Piranha, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Car (via)
Rhoades Car Showroom - The 4-Wheel Bike That Drives Like A Car!
[transport] - Saskatchewan Snowmobile
Robotic racers achieve milestone. the first car to successfully complete DARPA's autonomous robot vehicle race. see also the Ghostrider Robot.
whilst i'm highly amused by the variety, and basic concept, of the popemobile (pejorative perturbs prior pontiff) , the newly required buddhist sidecar is quite sad.
Freeline skates - demo movie(6mb)
[transport] - 1938 Maserati 8CTF in minty mint condition. Tons more eye candy at atspeedimages.com
1935 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic (more in links) (among my top 5 cars) and more historical Bugattis.
see also the 1938 Phantom Corsair (more)
Suzuki LC concept. more. oh so cute (which never survives through to production..), though it's not quite a Nissan Pao (more more more more) (another of my top 5 cars)
Smart Crosstown concept. (more more more more)
Jeep Willys 2001 concept (more)
Mini Concept Tokyo. yikes. though if they lost the gold tires/grill, and the seat upholstery, it'd be really kinda nifty.
[transport] - Metro Arts and Architecture - gorgeous gallery of international subway stations (via)
Mopah by Michael Tseng. gah. lovely student design project. your ipod is the key, and stereo. oh so emo friendly. (via)
KUKA Industrial Robots - Robocoaster "Wide range of motion sequences, speeds and ride profiles, from gentle to extreme, to meet the requirements of all customers"
Skoopy minicars. so cute. presummably photoshopped fakery.
How Could They Park Like This? japanese minimalist parking.
[transport] - Snowplane
Walk on water with Seajogger. which looks almost normal when compared to...
the Aquaskipper. watch the video. the ending is so.. so.. ummmm... darwinian.
Paternoster videos. a continual motion elevator. (as a reply to the current elevator hacking threads )
see also: Residential Pneumatic Vacuum Elevators. with 3 movies. (via)
Unimotorcyclists. one-wheeled mud drag madness.
[transport] - Goodguys Street Rod of the Year. real purdy pictures. scroll up for more.
Geneva Motor Show 2005. more concept cars. less exciting, more plausible.
The Ugliest Cars in Britain.
there are some beautiful creatures here! how dare they!
Isetta bubble car, Corbin Sparrow, Bond Bug, Morgan Aero 8, Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite, Ford Anglia [well, okay, maybe not the Anglia 105E they refer to, but the 1953 Anglia is scrumptious], Daimler SP250, Jensen S-V8, and the cute little Daihatsu Copen.
Philistines.
The World's Most Efficient Cars, often breaking 10,000 miles per gallon. (a firefly/sprint gets about 38mpg. a prius about 55mpg. a pickup/SUV about 18mpg. check vehicles at FuelEconomy.gov)
This year's entries include the road legal Caterham 2R.
[transport] - concept car student design season. i smell scifi future. (please!) (expanded pictures are sadly all locked from non-subscribers)
Royal College of Art Show 2005
Strate College Degree Show 2005
Ume� Institute of Design Degree Show 2005
Coventry University Design Degree Show 2005
College for Creative Studies Student Exhibition 2005
Art Center College of Design Spring Show 2005
Pforzheim University Spring Degree Show 2005
more at Jalopnik: concept cars
The 2003 Dodge Tomahawk motorcycle concept can almost fly.