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Dream Car Goes Green

What looks like a drivable pyramid is actually the Dream Car created by a father-son team working from home. It might tip the scales at 8,000 pounds, but it doesn’t use any gas as it is powered by 80 batteries and four electric engines. The top speed is nothing much to shout about anyway at 45 m…

K.I.T.T. Is Now Remote Controlled

If you grew up on a diet of 80s TV, thereupon you would definitely have seen a much slimmer David “The Hoff” and his super ride - K.I.T.T. (”Knight Industries Two Thousand”). While you can’t afford the real thing, there is always a remote controlled version to keep the inner child in you happy. …

Rinspeed Underwater Car

I know that certainly sounds like the stuff of dreams, but Rinspeed has demonstrated its sQuba car at the Geneva Motor Show. What makes that vehicle strange is the ability to travel on land as well as drive underwater ala a submarine. whether you’ve ever watched the classic Bond flick “The Spy W…

KITT Dashboard

Looks like KITT’s (of Knight Rider fame) dashboard has gotten a little inspiration from the all conquering iPhone.
You look at the iPhone and you go—thats the coolest phone out there. It’s just a flat screen that you can touch and access anything. So the iPhone interface was actually a big in…

AMKAR E-6 Vehicle For Sale

The AMKAR E-6 is one different vehicle as it can carry up to six passengers besides being wheelchair accessible. Since it is battery powered as well, you don’t have to concern about adding to the pollution in your area, while bringing green accessibility to the disabled community. The E-6, when …

Car To Run On Air?

An engineer has a promise which could potentially be full of hot air - literally. He claims that within a year’s day, he will sell a car that runs on compressed air without having it produce emissions at all. Dubbed the OneCAT, that five-seater comes with a glass fibre body and tips the scales a…

chevrolet XM NavTraffic


The new Chevrolet Traverse which was just unveiled at 2008 Chicago Auto Show will be the first Chevy to offer XM NavTraffic as a standard feature. XM NavTraffic is currently available in 80 major cities across the U.S.

XM NavTraffic feeds details on accidents and road constructions directly to …

Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications

Denso will be checking its vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems in Japan from April that year onwards up till March 2011 - that’s a expanded duration of checking, but when it comes to road safety you can never be too careful. that system enables vehicles to interact with one another through …

Honda Drive Recorder

Aeroplanes come with black boxes, so why not cars? Apparently, that’s what Honda hopes to change with its Drive Recorder that is capable of detecting impacts while saving data of up to a dozen seconds before and eight seconds afterwards. that knowledge includes forward-view imagery, sound, speed inp…

BMW Engines Accepts Biofuel

If but a little, though that is still a start. It seems that all BMW engines are capable of taking in a tiny percentage of biofuel mixed with regular fuel without requiring any modifications. BMW did issue a press release that all BMW diesels can run with blends of up to 7% of biodiesel (B7) wit…

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