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Ghetto Limo Cobbled Together

This limo is G to the H to the E to the double T to the O. Cobbled together from over 2000 parts, this limo is 36 feet long and took 500 hours to make. I guarantee if you show up at your prom in this thing you will NOT be getting any action that night. I think I just gave worried parents of teenagers a great idea- “Son, I’ll pay for the limo and make all the arrangements”.

In actuality this limousine has no engine and was created by a movie prop company for Nissan to show their support for the UK’s clunker car trade-in program.

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A Bus That Goes Right Over Traffic

Check out this insane Chinese bus that actually goes right over traffic. Cars go underneath it like a tunnel. It’s almost as if it’s a train riding on it’s own raised tracks. It can hold over 1000 passengers and travel up to 60km/h right over traffic. There’s some sort of alarm warning sign if a truck that’s too tall attempts to drive underneath it. The bus is articulated to allow it to easily turn around corners.

It is tall enough to go over cars yet short enough to still fit under existing overpasses. Because it only requires minimal surface tracks around the outside of the road, it can be built and deployed in 1/3 the time of a true subway. And deployed it will be; in Beijing’s Mentougou district where the first 186km of track will be built later this year.

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Bendable Bicycle Wraps Around Poles

Locking up bikes to poles in an urban environment is always a tricky proposition. Often you will see bikes with two locks, one for each wheel and of course the frame. But with this ingenious invention by 21 year old Kevin Scott, the bicycle will fold over itself around the pole:

A ratchet in the seatpost part of the frame is used to tighten or bend the bike’s frame. Once it’s in the curved position, you can use a single lock to secure both wheels and the frame. I’m not sure how rigid a cable pulled frame will be over the long haul (you definitely don’t want it going all limp while you’re riding! that’s what she said) but it’s an interesting idea that should be explored further.

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Combination of Supercar and Superbike

This is by far the weirdest diy i ever seen. The combination of Supercar and Superbike. I wonder is the bike the one controlling the direction or is the car steering wheel responsible for it? This DIY project done by Frenchman François Knorreck, took him over a 10 year span in which he spent over 10,000 hours building it from the frame up. The combining of a car and a bike definitely involve some tricky engineering to balance it properly.

There are a total of 3 exhaust pipes. The hubs and brakes come from a VW Golf GTI, the wheels are from an Audi 80, headlights and blinkers came from BMW and Renault cars, the bike’s headlight comes from a Kawasaki 1000 RX bike, the tail lights from a Citroën Xantia car and that’s a 3CL motorcycle used. The bodywork was made from 63 custom molds.

via craziestgadgets

Ville, the foldable shopping cart bicycle

Bicycle as a form of transport is getting more and more popular now. One minor problem is always hard to find a space to park your bicycle while you go and shop for your grocery.This is the transforming Ville, a bike that can fold in half in order to become a shopping cart. It may not be a cart that can hold a week’s worth of groceries, but if you just need to get enough to fill two baskets, this is probably your deal. Plus you will not need to search for parking space anymore.Yep, it really just makes sense to build a bicycle like this. Unfortunately, it is just a concept at this particular moment.

via coolest-gadgets