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Don’t go pissing off Ian Taylor anytime soon. The Tredworth native has sawn his car in half with an angle-grinder after law enforcement put a boot on his car. Taylor claims just a small part of his back tire was sticking out of the driveway and was on the sidewalk, which is what prompted police to fine him. Not happy about getting a $100 crap car booted, Taylor took an angle-grinding tool and cut his Ford Fiesta in half, instantly... Continue reading

Rule one of being a soccer mom: get the carpool to practice on time. If you fail at that, you just aren’t a true soccer mom. The Jet Turbine Powered Minivan not only gets your kids to practice on time, but most likely gets them there a few hours early while incinerating all of the cars which fall behind in your wake. Capable of traveling 1/8th of a mile in 7.65 seconds at 96mph, the Jet Powered Minivan packs in... Continue reading

Cycling is in the midst of a come back. With environmental fears and urban build-up making cars seem less and less like a smart transportation option, bikes are the choice of many city dwellers. The problem is that there are still way more cars than bikers, putting cyclists at risk of being run down by some disgruntled rush hour driver (notice the white-knuckled clenched hands on the pictured steering wheel). Safe Turn is a fully-automatic turn signal for bikers which... Continue reading

Sony has developed a CMOS camera to be integrated into the Nissan “around view monitor”, which displays an overhead view of a vehicle with four cameras video system. The 23.4 × 23.4 × 21.7mm camera will offer 1.3 MP, 30 frame rate per second, with a 186.2° view in a horizontal direction and 147° in a vertical direction. We guess for keeping a REALLY close look on your car. So few CMOS cameras have been made for cars because of... Continue reading

If you’re reading this, odds are that you weren’t alive to see how early of a jump people got on creating environmentally friendly cars. The pictured article was published in the April 1924 issue of Popular Mechanics. While the motive behind the article was most likely for sales reasons and a certain “cool” factor and not for the post-discovered global warming, the idea of electrical automobiles being thought of in the 1920′s shows a growing concern for the future of... Continue reading

Maybe you caught them during the keynote, maybe you never watched it to begin with. Either way, these new laptops will make heads turn for sure. They were shown during Bill Gate’s opening keynote speech for CES 2007, but just for a quick second while scrolling through the rest of Vista compatible laptops that will be released alongside with the new OS. These brand spankin new Asus Lamborghini laptops look just about as nice as the Asus Ferrari laptops (which... Continue reading

Just released today, concept photos of the new S600 Mercedes convertible. This thing just looks like fluid, like pure, aerodynamic, and sleek mayhem. And we mean mayhem in the very best sense of the word. The transformation from sedan to convertible makes the S600 versatile. Put the top up for class, and put it down for coolness and fun. A cool little addition to the S600 is the “AirScarf”, which is a series of vents aligned to keep your neck... Continue reading