The above picture shows Chris Gray’s winning truck tarp design that was selected for FREITAG’s Design-A-Truck Contest. Here’s one 18-wheeler that won’t settle for any gas station that isn’t the least bit artsy. Having trouble making out the design? Allow me: it’s a disproportional girl on a swing in sexy striped stockings. I think it won because of the stockings. The runners up were even more unsavory, one being a matrix rip off and the other being a paper-cut out collage you could’ve made in MS Paint. Once the winner’s design roams the countryside for the next 5 years on this truck as it secures its status in pop culture, the art will be made into a special limited edition collection of FREITAG bags.

It’s all about design. Now, as for some of the other works shown in the top 30, there were a few that stuck out that would’ve suited the look of a truck better but were not so much the look FREITAG was going for. Hit the jump to check out some of the shown 30 that attracted us: (more…)

Mountain Dew’s Action Sports Tour is headed our way and Nike really wants to make peoples’ jaws drop. For their campaign, they hired the ad/design firm Hub Strategy who worked on this armor-plated war truck, turning it into a mobile extreme sport HQ. But, what makes this monstrous truck so extreme? It’s not the skateboard ramp on the back or the rails surrounding it. It’s not even the wakeboard water tower. It’s the ass-load of Mountain Dew this thing’s going to have in its camper when it goes on tour around the country.

Nike 6.0 Ill Mobile is its name and being extreme is its game. How extreme? It’s like riding in a parajet car with no helmet while Tony Hawk sitting passenger side throws money in your face. They built this monstrosity in only three weeks. Now, they plan on taking it around the country, frightening little kids and crushing any who can’t best its vert ramp.

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You can go and envy Mr. Rich Man while watching his 70″+ plasma TV through the window of your local mansion. See how proud he seems of his accomplishment? All of these years of work, so he can enjoy a TV. Only if he knew that his measly 70 inches are dwarfed by the humongous MEGASCREEN! A TV so large it’s enormousness can only be explained in all-caps.

Big Moving Pictures Inc. is mounting their 40′ x 22′ HDTV LED displays on the only objects big enough to carry such a load: MACK trucks. Designed to provide video to audiences up to 100,000 strong, MEGASCREENS are the “biggest and most powerful LED-based display solution yet devised.” Yet, they’re still not large enough, dammit!

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Forget cellphones, all the screens going into cars nowadays are causing all of the crashes. It’s not that the driver of the car is driving wrecklessly, it’s the driver of the car behind the car with the movie playing. Really people, watching movies while driving is not safe!

Now we have the Visor. It is a flip-down visor has a TV/DVD player with an FM transmitter in order to keep your passengers entertained and out of your hair. So however unsafe this device is (and however illegal), if you can afford it, you’ll probably be rushing out to your local hi-tech car shop to rip this off of the shelves. $300 is all it’ll cost you. Is that really worth the peace and quiet while driving? –Nik Gomez

Car 7-inch Sun Visor TV/DVD Player and FM Transmitter [via The Gadget Blog]

Ford is set to unveil a new concept at the North American International Auto Show on January 7^th: the Interceptor. This beast combines the power of the ever popular Mustang and the looks of a truck in a style not seen in Ford cars very often (or never). Even though the Interceptor is based on the Mustang’s chassis, it is a 4-door that looks nothing like a Mustang, something the designers tried to do. In fact, they wanted so badly not for it to look like a Mustang that they based the front end on the front end of the Super Chief Truck concept that was unveiled last year. When it came to making this sedan beefy, Ford didn’t stop there; the engine is a 5.0 liter version of the 4.6 liter Cammer engine that produces 400 ponies. Ford hit it right with this concept, as of right now, because it appeals to the guys out there who can’t decide between the beef of a truck and the speed of a car; this concept may be considered a car, but it sure looks a lot more macho than a Honda or Toyota car. Hopefully Ford decides to build this; right now we can only hope for the best. More pictures after the jump.

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