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Tank-Racecar Mashups are a Different Brand of Hybrid Vehicle

What do you get when you cross an oil tanker with a chopper? How about tank with a racecar or a taxi? You might end up with cartoonist Stan Mott's surreal illustrations of imaginary vehicles. More »

12/17/09

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By Lauren Davis

#futuretransportation

Your Future Automotive Awesomeness: Fiction vs. Reality

The car's come a long way since Ford started mass production 100 years ago, but science fiction takes transportation even further. Here are six scenarios for the future of driving, and the real-life developments that could make them happen. More »

12/10/09

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By Mary Ratliff

#conceptart

Paul Pope Presents Japan's Futuristic Cars

We may be waiting on that flying car for a while, but Japanese designers have come up with some phenomenally futuristic concept cars. Comic book artist Paul Pope illustrates a handful of these Japanese automotive innovations. More »

11/30/09

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By Lauren Davis

#scifivehicles

Fan-Made Replicas of Science Fiction's Favorite Land Vehicles

While some science fiction fans like to dress as their favorite character, some handy fans prefer to dress up their cars as incredibly detailed replicas of movie machines. We take a look at the futuristic vehicles on the road today. More »

11/06/09

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By Lauren Davis

#carfuture

In The Future, Your Car Will Know All About You

You may think that your GPS has a superior attitude now, but imagine if you could see its expression as you take a wrong turn for the seventh time. A new "driving companion" adds a little personality to your directions. More »

10/31/09

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By Graeme McMillan

#vehicularart

Burning Man's Evolutionary Mutant Vehicles

At Burning Man, the annual arts festival, mutant vehicles plod across Nevada's Black Rock Desert. And this year's art cars include a fully-functional spider walker, a remote-controlled trilobite, and a mobile mammoth skeleton. More »

09/10/09

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By Lauren Davis

#newcomicswecraveextra

The Best Free Comics To Bring You Up To Super-Speed

Tomorrow is 2009's Free Comic Book Day, when all manner of publishers release free books to celebrate the medium and try and get some new readers into characters they hadn't previously considered. Here're our favorites. More »

05/01/09

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By Graeme McMillan

#newcomicswecrave

Superheroes Good And Bad to the Rescue

Superheroes take over comic book stores, even more than usual, tomorrow - including the return of a classic hero, and new series from two of the industry's greatest superhero writers. Look! Up in the sky! More »

03/31/09

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By Graeme McMillan

#conceptart

The Space Car Artist Who Will Make the Tron 2 Lightcycles Throb

Daniel Simon has designed cars for VW & Bugatti, but his real passion is vehicles like this one from beyond the galaxy. Now he's relocated to Los Angeles to work on Tron 2. More »

02/19/09

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By Annalee Newitz

#trylonviper

Launch The Alert Vipers, With Your Very Own Battlestar Car

02/04/09

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#apocalypsemobile

The Rise (and Fall) of the Apocalypsemobile at the Enduro Smashup Race

01/05/09

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#enduro

Apocalypsemobile Update: Nuclear Winter at the Enduro

12/23/08

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#dontcrossthestreams

Won't Somebody Please Adopt the Ecto-1?

Two years ago, a kindly fan in Tennessee rescued this Ecto-1 car, a Caddy decked out as the Ghostbuster-mobile that was used for years in a Universal Studios ride. He's kept it in pristine shape, but now he just can't keep it around. So he put it on eBay. For just $27,000, you could adopt this excellent automobile with a venerable history — as long as you're willing to ship it from Tennessee. There are tons of great pictures on the eBay page. [Ecto-1 via eBay] Thanks, Randy!

10/09/08

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By Annalee Newitz

#twoblockspastthunderdomefirstdomeontheleft

Apocalypsemobile Update: The One-Week Thrash

09/16/08

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#hacking

Your Car Is Your Own Personal Spy

08/11/08

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#deathrace

First Look At Death Race's Deadly Mask

07/01/08

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#deathrace

The Awesome Cars of Futuristic Smashing Death

Here's a first peek at scenes being filmed for the remake of violent death-car-meets-game-show movie Death Race 2000, directed in 1975 by cult filmmaker Paul "Eating Raoul" Bartel. Flamethrower = hell yes. This remake, called simply Death Race, could be the psycho, gritty rejoinder to sparkly flop Speed Racer — though some key plot points have been changed, probably to make it more palatable for people disturbed by rampant child-crushing. More smashy cars below. More »

06/03/08

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By Annalee Newitz

#conceptart

GM's "Futurama" Exhibit: Three Wheeled Rocket Car

We showed you the fancy pants garage of the future in 1964 now take a look at the GM's 1964 concept art for their rocket-car of the future, the Runabout. This three-wheeled hatchback debuted in the GM's Futurama segment in the New York World's Fair. While the women-folk busy themselves with groceries and other gender-appropriate activities, I'm stuck pondering how you would change the tire or a cracked windshield. [Auto Speed]

05/23/08

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By Meredith Woerner

#architecture

Boutique Filling Stations for an Age of Luxury Gas

As rising gas and oil prices turn driving into the transportation equivalent of Prada bags, it makes sense that gas stations will start to look like high-end boutiques. Here is a perfect example of a twenty-first century gas station in Los Angeles, built with "green" materials to look like a modern art museum. More »

05/22/08

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By Annalee Newitz

#freakypolymers

Crispy Noodles Fuel Next-Gen Hydrogen Cars

05/06/08

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#design

Refurbished 70s Mobile Home for the Road Trip of the Future

Who said the future of travel had to require brand new vehicles? Foreseeing a coming trend in land travel, designer Kevin Fitzsimons restored a 1978 Sovereign 31' Airstream Land Yacht and turned it into a super-fancy high-tech mobile home for the luxe traveler. The Mobitat, or MObi for short, has built-in furniture with white leather and walnut finishes, stainless steel appliances, flat panel hi-def TVs, fancy plumbing, and eco-friendliness written all over it. More »

05/05/08

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By Lisa Katayama

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