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KITT should run for cover. The new Batmobile, which debuts in next week's Batman #676, looks totally amazing and guaranteed to put the "cowardly and superstitious" into any fleeing criminal scumbags. Too bad it's appearing in the first issue of a storyline called "Batman R.I.P." — but at least Bats is going out in a sweet ride. [MySpace, via Newsarama]
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Owen Paterson designed the bleak cityscapes of the Matrix movies and V For Vendetta, and now he's creating the candy-colored neopolises of Speed Racer. Not to mention concept cars with wheels that can turn a full 180 degrees. We tracked him down in Sydney, Australia and asked him about the visual influences behind Cosmopolis, the city where Speed races, and the cars which Speed and his opponents drive. Along the way, he dropped a surprising amount of backstory about the alternate world of the Wachowski's Speed Racer, coming in May.
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You've just seen Doomsday, and you're pumped to strap a bolt-gun to your car and go on a mohawked demolition-derby frenzy. Luckily for you, there's a whole society (cult?) devoted to reenacting Mad Max: The Road Warrior on the highways of America... and they've only gotten thrown in jail once. Details and a gallery below the fold.
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Rocket-mania inspired more than just brassieres during the Cold War. Car designers tried to come up with the most rocket-like features during the 1950s and early 1960s, including nose cones and rocket-like fins. And racing fiends were adding actual rockets to their cars, as early as 1946. Here's a complete history, with a huge gallery.
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The car that Speed's rivals drive in Speed Racer looks meaner and more next-decade than Speed's own disappointing Mach-5 from the Detroit Auto Show. This Japanese race car is decked out with tons of weird-looking pistons and coils, a space-cruisery hood and a rocket-looking rear. An actual popular Japanese racing team, the Autobacs Racing Team Aguri, will race Speed using this car, unveiled at the Tokyo Auto Salon this weekend. More futuristic race car pics below.
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Antigrav will give us flying cars, but more importantly it'll reinvent jetski technology. These seacraft hoverpods look sexier than those pod racers in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Plus you could zip up onto the beach and spray sand in the face of the jock who bullied you during high school.
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Now this is a fire engine that kids from 5 to 105 would like to see under the Christmas tree next year. How sleek and shiny does this thing look? Instead of the boxy fire fighting vehicles of the past, this baby looks streamlined enough to win a race or two as well as do some good.
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Flying cars are dime-a-dozen in science fiction. But they don't all look as cool as Harrison Ford's cop car does in Sid Mead's original concept art. And some of them have cool extras, like voice-controlled color or a built-in ATM . But what you really want to know is, what's the fastest super-car in scifi? We rank them by speed (with a gallery) below.
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