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more about #cars Bill-Lee: These remind of some of the things I used to do(Yeah used to do...)with Legos... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: These completely kick ass. Number 3 and number 6 are pure awesome. Two is bizarre beyond belief but cool all the same, and number 1 is sheer outrage... more » joetato: I'm quite embarrassed that I thought about the combat Porsche from Leonard Part VI! My first thought was of Space Battleship Yamato! The land carrie... more » iCurmudgeon: Reminds me of stuff that appeared in Popular Mechanics in the '50s -- especially that land battleship. more » Dirk Anger: I think you can use #2 in Red Alert 3 more » acrobatic rabbit: still not as awesome as the Badonkadonk. [www.amazon.com] more » FrankN.Stein: Yeah sure - give taxi drivers a tank, that'll make city-traffic worhtwhile. more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Maglev cars that drive themselves would be great, thanks. But no talking. more » matthewabel: I wish the highways system had a car rail function so you could drive onto the rails or connect to an over head wire and the system would take over un... more » beercheck: The fiction: SecureFoam more » Matthew Anderson: I forgot how cheesy-looking the early live-action Batmobiles were. I think we can all agree that Batman: The Animated Series had the best Batmobile. ... more » hardcache: Oh, how I wish I could own a Tumbler! more » Pessimippöpötåmus: When do we get these then? more » GarnetLynne: Hey I don't see the antigrav cars from Blade Runner here. I thought they did a great design on them and the ones that were retro-fitted were cool too. more » LittleDragon: I love Top Gear. Those boys are a riot. more » Corvus-Corax: When are we going to have flying cars? more » MonkeyT: When it comes to mag-lev train safety, I know of only one accident in the history of mag-lev, and that was caused by a conventional truck hitting the ... more » Pessimippöpötåmus: You mean he just found those images of cars from the internet and illustrated them, right? more » Janglesatwest: For some reason, number 4 made the Batman theme run in my head. Weird. more » Veda Urias: Am I the only one who wants the Buckaroo Banzai car? #scienceficitonvehicles more » -
#conceptart
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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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.
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#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!
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#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 » -
#trylonviper
Launch The Alert Vipers, With Your Very Own Battlestar Car
Don't you wish your driveway played host to this Viper car, straight out of Battlestar Galactica? Butch pilot with mental issues and a sexy flightsuit not included. More » -
#apocalypsemobile
The Rise (and Fall) of the Apocalypsemobile at the Enduro Smashup Race
On New Year's Day, while you were complaining about the Gregorian calendar or nursing a wicked hangover, I was hurtling around a snow-covered racetrack, en route to destroying a perfectly good Saturn station wagon. -
#enduro
Apocalypsemobile Update: Nuclear Winter at the Enduro
New Year's Day approaches, when brave warriors at an enduro destructo-race will don protective helmets and strap themselves to mighty vehicles of destruction, destined to wage war on the frozen fields of a wreckage-strewn wasteland. -
#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! -
#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 » -
#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] -
#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 »
