Electric motorcycles can be ponderous things, battery-laden hulks that awkwardly lope around the track. But not the Amarok. It’s light and lithe, a nimble and ferocious beast that tears at the tarmac. It’s the creation of Canadian builder Michael Uhlarik and at just 325 pounds, it’s the lightest TTXGP racing bike ever created.
Soon after the State of California granted me permission to prowl its streets in my mum’s car, I was prowling car dealerships in search of gullible salesmen who would let me take a test drive. Test driving became a favorite pastime, an easy way to get a quick automotive thrill. So what about you, are you guilty of wasting salesmen’s time? Read More…
A few months ago the sheer beauty of the Alfa Romeo TZ3 by Zagato put you in a coma. Well, prepare your hospital bed, because Zagato says they’re building it. The company plans to put the car into limited production, using Dodge Viper running gear.
There are many automotive atrocities, plenty of ill-conceived motorcar mutations created by madmen. Way back in the heyday of Italian industrialism, super-magnate and fashionista Gianni Agnelli had some guys at Zagato chop the top off the infamous Lancia Delta to create the monstrous Delta Cabrio. Now the guys at a shop called HF Il Cavallino have spawned another one. Read More…
In the vast uncharted wilderness of Austria lives an automotive Dr. Moreau, a mad genius who splices cars together to create breathtaking beasts like this unholy union of a ’73 VW Bug and 2000 Porsche Boxster S: The Bugster. The man behind this beauty is Siegfried Rudolf. His shop, CarMaxx, specializes in tuning and restoring VWs and Porsches. Apparently he got the idea for the Bugster after he parked his tuned ’73 Bug next to his wife’s Boxster and noticed the two cars shared a remarkably similar wheelbase.
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The Miata is undoubtedly the most fun on four wheels. And now the guys at Jota Sport have distilled the car’s bubbly personality down to a thick, syrupy shot of racetrack rotgut that can knock the most seasoned drivers on their asses. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the MX-5 GT, aka, the Mini-Hulk. Read More…
When I was a kid, any toy car that you didn’t have to push was high tech. And the coolest go-anywhere cars were Stompers. Two speeds, four-wheel drive, interchangeable bodies and tires, and attitude a plenty.
You may remember Ian McElroy. A while back he wanted to stick a Subaru boxer four cylinder into a motorcycle. Well, that simply wasn’t awesome enough for him. Now he wants to build a motorcycle equipped with a turbo-charged diesel mill. And both-wheel-drive.
Citroën is brilliantly batshit. But to truly reach new heights of insanity, it had to hit up the Royal College of Art in London. This is the winner of the automaker’s Double Challenge contest, the E-3POD. And it looks like the head of a Corythosaurus. Read More…
