Gordon Murray finally launches his wildly innovative T.50 masterpiece

The supercar of the year – perhaps indeed the decade, early though it is – has finally fully launched, and we’ve now got a trove of images of the first car that Formula One/McLaren F1 design genius Gordon Murray says he’s truly 100 percent happy with.C… Continue reading Gordon Murray finally launches his wildly innovative T.50 masterpiece

Rezvani sticks more wheels on its ludicrous urban war machine

The Hercules 6×6 is coming, placing an extra rotating dollop of rough-hewn testosterone on each side of what was already the most outrageously overcompensatory SUV the market had to offer.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: SUV, Rezvan… Continue reading Rezvani sticks more wheels on its ludicrous urban war machine

The crazy organic details on Greece’s 3,000-hp Project Chaos “ultracar”

That horrifying alien-like growth is a brake caliper, folks, designed using a proprietary generative process Panopoulos calls

Extreme hypercars have come at us thick and fast in the last couple of years, but none more extreme than this. Greek drag racing tuner Spyros Panopoulos – and surely there can be no more Greek a name than that – is preparing to launch a combustion car so ludicrously overpowered that he feels it belongs in a whole new category above hypercars and megacars: the lone ultracar.

Continue Reading

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: , , , ,

Continue reading The crazy organic details on Greece’s 3,000-hp Project Chaos “ultracar”

Rezvani Tank X: Bulletproof urban war machine becomes the world's first 1,000-hp hyper-SUV

More than 1,000 hp makes the Rezvani Tank X the world's first hyper-SUV

Nobody this side of Howe & Howe knows how to overcompensate like the Rezvani team, and the new Tank X is so brutally macho that you’d need to be Dwayne Johnson to hang your arm out the window and look right. Starting at US$349,000, meet your new 1,000-horsepower off-road hyper-SUV.

..
Continue Reading Rezvani Tank X: Bulletproof urban war machine becomes the world’s first 1,000-hp hyper-SUV

Category: Automotive

Tags:

Continue reading Rezvani Tank X: Bulletproof urban war machine becomes the world's first 1,000-hp hyper-SUV

Franky Zapata successfully crosses the English Channel on his jet-powered Flyboard Air

After ending up in the water on his first attempt, flying Frenchman Franky Zapata has now successfully crossed the English Channel on his jet-powered Flyboard Air. The 22-mile (35.4-km) crossing took Zapata some 22 minutes, holding speeds ove… Continue reading Franky Zapata successfully crosses the English Channel on his jet-powered Flyboard Air

Shea Nyquist's electric land speed motorcycle does 80 mph on 10 percent throttle in testing

Shea Nyquist's home-made land speed bike has completed dodgy road testing and is ready to get ...

Time for a quick update on Shea Nyquist’s quest to break the land speed record in a fully electric streamliner. The bike is up and running, albeit without any fairing panels on it yet, and Nyquist has been doing some “kind of illegal” but successful testing on quiet backroads near his home.

..
Continue Reading Shea Nyquist’s electric land speed motorcycle does 80 mph on 10 percent throttle in testing

Category: Motorcycles

Tags:

Continue reading Shea Nyquist's electric land speed motorcycle does 80 mph on 10 percent throttle in testing

Own the Sky: David Mayman launches jetpack documentary with thunderous public flight demo

It’s been four years since I first spoke to David Mayman over the phone, in the afterglow of his pioneering jetpack flight around the Statue of Liberty. Since that day, things have moved along at a rapid pace. Jetpack Aviation has developed a… Continue reading Own the Sky: David Mayman launches jetpack documentary with thunderous public flight demo

2,000-horsepower Lotus Evija becomes the world's most powerful production car

On the Lotus Evija giant venturi tunnels exit at the rear, rimmed by the taillights

Until today, the world’s most powerful production car was the all-electric Rimac C_Two, which makes a puny 1,914 horsepower. Now, British carmaker Lotus has introduced a proper, lunch-money stealing, wedgie-pulling 2,000-hp ‘leccy hypercar with a name that you’ll need help pronouncing.

..
Continue Reading 2,000-horsepower Lotus Evija becomes the world’s most powerful production car

Category: Automotive

Tags:

Continue reading 2,000-horsepower Lotus Evija becomes the world's most powerful production car