Back in July, Local Motors had announced that the Rally Fighter concept would see the light of the day. Primarily the work of designer Sangho Kim, the Rally Fighter has received touches from numerous designers; as many as 2000 are said to have worked on the design.
Aston Martin unveiled the Rapide at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, and they have now released a whole lot of photographs of the stylish new car. The car is powered by a 6.0-l V12 that endows it with 470bhp of power and 600 Nm of torque. The engine is mated to a six-speed Touchtronic 2 transmission that sends power to the rear wheels.
It was nearly two years ago that Ken Block put his Subaru WRX STI through jumps in the snow, and after numerous eye-catching stunts, the man is back with his STI in tracks. Block’s TRAX STI is his WRX STI rally car with snowcat tracks, and its pushing through snow in a way only Ken Block can. This a preview video of a test run, and if it is that good, we can only imagine how cool the real thing would be. In addition to the tracks, the car also has reworked suspension and shockers, and a 2.5-liter turbo boxer four that churns out 400 bhp.
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The HSV Encore concept from designer Edwin Conan was an innovative, futuristic ride dated for the year 2020, and his new Audi Avatar concept is another futuristic supercar, dated for 2032. The futuristic Avatar connects to Audi’s past by getting inspiration from the 1937 Auto Union Type C streamliner, and also incorporates the tech and power required for a supercar of the future.
For all the lengths automakers go to reduce the weight of a vehicle, one component is often left untouched, the engine. And it looks like they could have massive weight savings by using plastic engines to power cars. Matti Holtzberg, an engineer and president of Polimotor Research has been working on plastic engines for nearly three decades now, and the company’s plastic engines do appear to be working well.
Drones have been vastly successful in offence, and looks like their chopper cousins are ready to get into the action by sniffing out Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). IEDs have long been a trouble for forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and these unmanned choppers will find these explosives by tracking the electromagnetic emissions that are emitted from the wireless receivers used to trigger IEDs.
This is an absolute crazy thing. The video is apparently from Serbia, and that guy is doing absolute insane things in a car with only two wheels, or rather, on a car with just two wheels that is missing most of its body. It looks crazy, and slight bit of funny and cool too, though I have no idea how that “cool” part ever came into being for this half-car driving.
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This Chevrolet Caprice decked up as a Mr. Pacman car sure is a piece of fanboyism, and the work is sort of appreciable, but somehow it isn’t much of an eye catcher. The car has a red-yellow paintjob with Mr. Pacman making a prominent appearance on the hood and the sides, and the same theme is carried to the interiors where the seats are decked in the same red-yellow theme with Pacman clearly visible. There’s Pacman even on the rims, wonder dots the car collects.
About a week back, we saw the smallest working model train, and now it is time to see it in all its miniature glory. The video, uploaded by the train’s creator, David Smith shows the miniature train chugging along its path, and also has a few interesting comparisons to put things into perspective for this 1:35200 scale model.
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Over the past few days, we have seen quite a few motorcycles powered by giant engines, and now it’s the V12 powered Honda CBX built by Andreas Georgeades. The man is no stranger to creating such monstrous motorcycles, he already has created three Ferrari engine motorcycles, two of which have V6 engines and one has a V8. The next step apparently is the 2000cc V12 he made by welding together two V6 CBX motors.
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