Posts Tagged ‘slick design’

Adventures in excess: Golf cart powered by Yamaha R1 engine

Friday, September 12th, 2008
Click above to view video after the jumpIt must take a certain kind of person to yank the small and economical 3-horsepower engine from a golf cart and replace it with one from a 2007 Yamaha R1 literbike. For the record, the team behind the transformation did a few dyno passes and managed to record ......

VIDEO: Time lapse build of Subaru rally car over 800 hours

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Click above to view video after the jump It's no secret that running a motorsports team is a lot of work, but probably most of us don't know how much time and effort it really takes. Just building the race cars can take hundreds of man hours, as evidenced by this stop-motion video created by the U.......

Insignia will come to U.S. as a Saturn, with new sheetmetal, interior

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Opel Insignia.Despite repeated rumblings from industry sources (including Lutz himself) that the Opel Insignia's transformation into a Saturn model was on hold, Bob Lutz now indicates that work is indeed proceeding on making that model ready for the American......

Abarth releases limited-edition 500 “Opening Edition”

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Click for hi-res gallery of Fiat 500 Abarth Opening EditionAt its unveiling at this past March's Geneva show, it was immediately apparent that Abarth had carried off a transformation of the Fiat 500 from a demure retro-hatch into a veritable pocket rocket. But for those for whom the 135 hp turbo fo......

Tokachi 24-hour Nissan GT-R build up underway

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Just a day after Nissan's formal announcement that it plans to campaign a race-prepped R35 GT-R in the Tokachi 24-hour race, GTR-World has procured a few pics of the coupe undergoing its transformation. The GT-R appears to be getting aligned at the NISMO Omori factory (about 60 miles from Tokyo), eq......

eBay Find of the Day: 2008 Shelby Super Snake

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Click above for gallery of the Super Snake Despite the Shelby GT500KR's claim of supremacy over the dominion that is the open road, there is yet another Mustang that is even more extreme. Shelby's Super Snake package for the GT500 offers up to 725 horsepower and even more aggressive options for the ......

Beijing ‘08 Preview: Nissan Intima to make production debut?

Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Nissan Intima concept that was unveiled during last year's Tokyo Motor Show looked very complete. Now we know why. Spy photos suggest that a production version of the Intima will make its world debut next month at the Beijing Motor Show. As you can see from the above photos, the covered car's si......

Detroit Auto Show: Ford concepts

Thursday, March 31st, 2005
Ford had all of its concepts out on the floor this morning so it was nice to see the weirdness up close. The most weird of course is the SYN-us, which from the interview J Mays gave this morning on local TV is a "tongue-in cheek" design. I don't know if that was the case before the unprecedented rid......