Volage Venturi to Fly Off in 2012

Tags: Automobiles, cars, michelin, sacha lakic, venturi automobiles, Volage Venturi

Car designs are discussed over beers and at office meetings and car lovers never waste a moment to start an argument about which car carries the best design, is the fastest or the most practical. Perhaps the car to end all these heated discussions and leave men with their jaws hanging is finally here.

The Volage Venturi has been designed by Sacha Lakic as a joint production for Venturi Automobiles with leading manufacturers of tyres, Michelin. The Volage Venturi looks like a goddess on wheels with a design intended to wow you into silence and will accomplish this when it makes its first appearance at Mondiale 2008. Intended to be the forerunner amongst electric cars, the Volage Venturi packs 295 horsepower and 171 pound-feet of torque, with Active Wheel Technology which gives each wheel extra control of the vehicle.

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Cellogan by Hosseini Ghahramani: the Ideal Future Car

Tags: Automobiles, car, Cellogan, Hosseini Ghahramani

The future of car designs involve super sleek bodies hosting within it an extremely fast engine that does not require an exhaustible resource to power it. Perhaps that future has already arrived with the Cellogan. Designed by Hosseini Ghahramani, the Cellogan is the answer for the car of tomorrow as an eco-friendly contraption that is electromagnetically powered.

The Cellogan features three caterpillar rubber track wheels that can turn in a 360 degree angle. It is inspired by the workings of the Maglev trains which perform with the highest speed and safety due to almost-nil friction and central controlling. Following the style of the Peugot, the Cellogan is also made with continuous body lines without any jarring features, making it a simple, beautiful and easy on the eye. The car features multimedia auto-pilot and navigation systems with touch screen facility and includes a main screen that gives a perfect view of the rear.

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Monobike by Akaraolis: One-Wheeled Bike

Tags: Akaraolis, Bikes, Monobike, Single Wheel Bike

With the invention of the ergonomic round wheel, the evolution of vehicles has only gone from better to unimaginably awesome. With single wheeled bicycles moving onto the next generation and evolving into two-wheeled engine-powered bikes, you may have no one would ever look back into the past to take inspiration from a design.

The Monobike is a single wheeled bike which has the whole mechanism of the bike housed on the wheel. This giant wheel-bike was designed by Akaraolis for his personal use, but the designs have got people drooling for this amazing piece of work to go into production. The Monobike looks mostly like any other fiery red bike, with the only difference being that it sits atop its own solo wheel. The design would make this bike an obviously popular choice amongst bikers who often travel on congested streets.

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Houghmade Cycle Works 71: DIY Homage to Pre-WWI Bikes

Tags: bicycle, Bikes, DIY, Houghmade Cycle Works 71

When bike lover Ed got bored of his old bicycle, he did what most of us wouldn’t do. Instead of throwing it to the bins, he went and upgraded the bike creating a new and improved version that turned it into a gas powered bike that he proudly title the Houghmade Cycle Works 71.

The bike was slapped together from a ‘90s vintage Huffy cruiser that makes up the frame and Husky wheels with the added bonus of 11 thick steel spokes. With a Honda GXH50 (49.4cc) engine (2.5hp), the retro appearing bike can do 40mph on the highway with 120+mpg and can screech to a stop with a coatser brake and callipers up front and at the rear. Powering this brand new bicycle-engine is a ½ gallon steel tank covered with a ¼” foam board coated with fleece and fibreglass resin. Done up all in white with vintage style Kenda tyres, the Houghmade Cycle a white speedometer with a custom face mounted in the headlight (bought off eBay).

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Metrofiet Bike Redesigned in U.S

Tags: Add new tag, Bikes, Metrofiets, Motorcycles, Portland, Vintage

Two Portlanders have been working on designing a Metrofiet bike and recently showcased that in the Oregon Manifest show. Philip Ross and Jamie Nichols, who designed the Metrofiets, look quite original and Dutch, but is manufactured completely in the U.S.A. and some parts are from Japan.

The coolest part of the design is that nearly all the parts have been sourced from Portland. Being a team effort, the bike ended up being really cool and the flavor of Dutch cargo bikes hangs in the air. The bike has been modernized and yet keeps the flavor of old U.S and also French frame styles directly from the early part of the century.

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BirdWing: Futuristic Neo Car

Tags: BirdWing, car, Neo Car, Nissan Teana

BirdWing is the name to the new concept car from Nissan Teana brought in this year. It is like a butterfly, beautiful from outside but intricate and complex inside. The car has a shiny metallic body in eye-catching colors. With a wheelbase of 3150mm and an overall height of 1485mm, it is passenger car that looks trendy and stylish. On the inner side, there’s a butterfly shaped steering wheel and is outfitted by automatic driving and media system. It also has a head up HUD display and a dim-light LED. It looks spacious and accommodates four. BirdWing appears to be a promising design for the future.

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Smart Lock finds an ‘Explosive’ Way to keep your Bike Safe

Tags: Bikes, Eco-friendly, Michael Lambourn, Smart Lock

Bicycles being one of the oldest modes of transport and are still being used frequently by people all over the world. Apart from being ecofriendly, they have other advantages like giving good exercise and cycling is a widely encouraged sport. Like all other things in the world, bikes are one of the most common commodities that are stolen. According to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997, reported that in the last 3years, 17% cyclists have had their bikes stolen; of which 24% have quit cycling, and 66% have decreased its use.

There are a plenty of cycle locks available in the market but they have in more than one ways failed to decrease the incidence of bike thefts. A new lock which stands apart from all the others is being introduced by Michael Lambourn which helps in nabbing bike thieves in many ways. Smart Lock is clever, user friendly and light in weight. It lets the user lock both the wheels along with the frame. When the cycle is broken, it helps in identifying the bike and also helps in catching the thief.

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Electric Car Nuvu by Nissan

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Nissan had promised all of us environment friendly car lovers an electric car for the year 2010 and it intends to keep its promise. You can be sure that the Nuvu, which makes its first appearance at the Paris motor show this week, will be all you have waited for and more.

The Nuvu appears to be a golden beauty with a slightly futuristic design. The car has continuous curves that would make it as irresistible as women for car-crazy men, with a transparent roof for wondrous star-gazing on those long nightly pleasure drives. The Nuvu seats three, with one seat at the back. Apart from being electrical to make it eco-friendly, much of the cabin materials have been made from either organic or recycled materials.

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Scientists May Install Space Elevators In A Couple Of Decades

Tags: Elevators, futuristic, High Tech, NASA, Space Elevator, Spacecrafts

Here is a unique design that might help us to climb the ladders to space. The project, called the ‘Space elevator’ may help us to climb a metaphoric staircase that would help everyone to visit space and experience astronomic journeys. Scientists from the three major continents are working on a design, which may help you reach the sky, literally. It all boils down to the theory of inertia which means that if something should keep it’s velocity in one straight line, as long as it is not tampered with or external force is not applied. This means the cable will be stretched straight and the elevator ends up being in a geostationary orbit.

The cable would go up to the sky and connect to a satellite, which would be in space. This could help dispose off nuclear waste and also help normal people to experience space travel. There even is a $4 million prize for the one that designs a safe space elevator. It needs material that would span 30,000 kms.

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Versa-Quatic: Ride Your Car

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With the amount of new designs that are put on show every day, car designers have to come up with more than just shiny painting of a bright casing on four wheels. Motor bike fans would be pleased to know that there may soon be cars that they can ride, instead of drive.

The Versa-Quatic by Versa is an automated car concept that can seat two. This car will allow you to ride it by grace of the unique seating position that it offers the driver, or in this case the rider. The driver will have complete control of the car via his whole body, unlike traditional cars which allow you to use only your arms and feet. Driving a Versa-Quatic will be a most fascinating experience because turning, speeding and stopping the car is done by different movements of the whole body of the driver.

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