Posts Tagged ‘planes’

Geneva ‘08 Preview: Bugatti taps Hermès for special edition Veyron

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Click the above for a high-res gallery of the Bugatti Veyron from Geneva 2007.When a vehicle costs $1.4m, can go 253 mph and has a lifetime production run of only 300 vehicles, it's a very special ride. How, then, do you up the ante to make the vehicle even more amazing? When you're talking about th......

Water-hating coating could mean easier car washes, more

Friday, April 27th, 2007
Engineers looked at a lotus leaf easily shedding water and said, "Hey, we could do that." And so they did, with a revolutionary coating named superhydrophobic, which simply means it really dislikes water.The technology works by creating a surface with lots of peaks and valleys. These create microsco......

Aw Snap! Poll reveals most Germans want speed limit on Autobahn

Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Three days ago we scoffed at an EU official's suggestion that a speed limit should be applied to the remaining sections of Germany's famous Autobahn that remain free to speed. While reports indicated that speed-loving Germans were up in arms over the idea, a recent poll shows that two in three belie......

DMV on the front lines

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
Get ready for national identification cards and most likely huge tie-ups and costs at the Division of Motor Vehicles. The new rules were included in the bill paying for the U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, assuring that they would be passed. Several states are upset over the new rules ......

Luxist finds celebrity Continental GT owners but forgets our favorite, Paris Hilton

Friday, March 11th, 2005
Who can forget this image we brought you way back in August of Paris Hilton checking out a new Bentley Continental GT. Of course now we know she owns one of these, at least those that read Celbrity Car magazine anyway as she's spied in it around town in the Fall Issue. Luxist points out other famous......