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Check out the Caparo T1!

via: Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog

"The MYT™(Massive Yet Tiny) Engine, is a breakthrough of immense proportions that will spawn the next industrial revolution and will rocket the internal combustion engine into the next milenium.

Read more: Angel Labs

Some of these dudes must have died...

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Flying car captured on Google Earth | The Register

via: Jalopnik - Concept Cars

via: It's Seen the Future and it's Left it Behind: Nissan Terranaut Photos - Jalopnik

NEW YORK - The New York Police Department is adding some muscle to its car fleet: the 2006 Dodge Charger, whose 1969 model is best remembered for outrunning a hapless sheriff in "The Dukes of Hazzard."

The department plans to buy 15 police versions of the car for a pilot program that will begin this summer, officials said Thursday.

With so many flashy foreign cars on the road, speed matters, said Leonard Lesko, the NYPD's director of fleet services.

"The car that does 110 mph doesn't do it anymore," Lesko said.

In a recent analysis by Michigan State Police, Chargers equipped with a V-8 engine had the quickest acceleration (6.52 seconds to 60 mph) and fastest lap time (150 mph) of any police vehicle tested.

The police highway unit will test drive 10 Chargers featuring V-8 engines, officials said. The rest will have V-6s and hit city streets in the five boroughs.

If they pass inspection, they could replace hundreds of squad cars in the NYPD's 3,000-vehicle patrol fleet, now dominated by Ford Crown Victorias and Chevrolet Impalas.

The Charger appeared in 1966. Over the next several years, it made an impact on the stock car circuit and on television, starring as the General Lee, an orange 1969 model, in "The Dukes of Hazzard."

The price was being negotiated. A company Web site lists the civilian model's starting price at $22,995. Modified police models typically are sold to law enforcers at a discount.

viaYahoo! News Photo

They also have Hummer, 300M and Escalade Limos!

Check out their site to see the other limos:4 Star VIP

Thanks for the picture Javelin! Anyone find any more???!

DETROIT - City officials are trying to figure out how a woman sneaked into the North American International Auto Show after closing time to pose naked atop the new Dodge Challenger.

It happened around 2:30 a.m. Monday when only workers and security guards were supposed to be inside Cobo Center.

Guards found the woman and about a dozen gawkers taking photographs with camera phones, workers told The Detroit News.
"We heard they were all over the Challenger," said Jason Vines, a spokesman for the Chrysler Group, which earlier had tried to give its cars more sex appeal by bringing in fully clothed "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria to pose at its exhibit.

Cobo Director Glenn Blanton said disciplinary action will be taken if employees were involved in the security breach.

With the opening today of media previews for the North American International Auto Show, the domestic automakers are launching an offensive of cars, SUVs and crossover vehicles into the brutally competitive U.S. market.
Both General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. -- which together lost $6.2 billion in North America in the first nine months of last year -- desperately need to refocus attention on their product lineups in the year ahead. At the Chrysler unit of DaimlerChrysler AG, the goal is to build on recent market share gains with even fresher offerings.

BUY AMERICAN! You Bastards!

In a photo provided by the Chrysler Group, a 2006 Dodge Challenger Concept is shown in an undated photo. Automakers will be flexing some muscle at this year's North American International Auto Show, with a slew of performance cars that harken back to the V-8-charged glory days of the 1960s and early 1970s. On Sunday, Jan. 8, 2006, the first day of media previews for the auto show, Chrysler Group will unveil the Dodge Challenger concept, Ford Motor Co. will introduce the Ford Shelby GT500, a souped-up Mustang, and General Motors Corp. will take the wraps off its Chevrolet Camaro concept. (AP Photo/Chrysler Group)

The clip is about 10 minutes long.

The GMC PAD, an urban loft with mobility, a concept for living in the ever-changing cultural landscape of Southern California or, quite simply, a modern alternative for those priced out of Southern California’s escalating housing market.

Huh? I wonder how much time and money was wasted working on this project? Glad I'm not a stockholder.

Most people can rather efficiently walk and chew gum at the same time, but when it comes to more complicated "multi-tasking" – like driving and talking on a cell phone – there is a price to pay.
"There is a cost for switching from one task to another and that cost can be in response time or in accuracy," said Mei-Ching Lien, an assistant professor of psychology at Oregon State University. "Even with a seemingly simple task, structural cognitive limitations can prevent you from efficiently switching to a new task."

Everyone knows you run faster with a knife!!!!

A Boeing Co. jet arrived in London from Hong Kong on Thursday, breaking the record for the longest nonstop flight by a commercial jet.
The 777-200LR Worldliner — one of Boeing's newest planes — touched down shortly after 1 p.m. (8 a.m. EST) at London's Heathrow Airport after a journey of more than 11,664 miles. The previous record was set when a Boeing 747-400 flew 10,500 miles from London to Sydney in 1989.

Boeing said that after leaving Hong Kong, the jet flew across the northern Pacific Ocean before reaching North America, where it flew over Los Angeles, then slightly south of Chicago and over New York before cruising over the Atlantic Ocean to London. Hong Kong-London flights usually fly over Russia.
The jet spent 22 hours and 43 minutes in the air.
The plane's flight path can be tracked at http://www.777.newairplane.com

The new 2006 H1 Hummer looks awesome! Wish I had $140k laying around. Maybe if I put a donate button on this site I could have that much by Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanza/Festivus/Insert the holiday you wish here.
The H1 started as a civilian version of the military Humvee. In contrast, the H2 is a big Tonka toy made out of a Chevy Tahoe, and the new H3 sprang from the Chevy Colorado pickup. Like lattes at Starbucks, Hummers do not come in "small."
For 2006, the H1 has a new engine, a 300-horsepower 6.6-liter Duramax turbodiesel V-8, which improves the estimated average mileage all the way into double digits!!
The H1 Alpha's base price is $139,771 if you include the 12,000 lb. winch.
(lb. is an abbreviation for pound. Who's ever heard of a 12,000 gram winch???? HaHa LOL!!)

The DARPA Challenge has been won. Standord's Stanley driverless vehicle covered the 132 mile Mojave Desert course in 53 minutes, 58 seconds for an average speed of 19.1 MPH. Carnegie Mellon vehicles came in 2nd and 3rd.

In this photo distributed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), a JAXA's prototype jet that can fly at twice the speed of sound is seen launched with its booster rocket at the Woomera Test Range in Australia Monday, Oct. 10, 2005. Jaxa spokesman Kenichi Saito said the 11.5-meter-long (38-foot-long) arrow-shaped jet _ which was designed to reach the speed of Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound _ had been recorded at speeds of up to Mach 2.6 during the successful unmanned test flight. (AP Photo/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, HO)

via: Yahoo! News Photo

A giant king salmon is now painted on the side of an Alaska Airlines 737, dubbed the Salmon-Thirty-Salmon.
It took 30 painters 24 days to complete the design on the 120-foot Boeing passenger jet, which was unveiled over the weekend in Seattle.
The fish celebrates Alaska Airlines' relationship with Alaskans and the state's seafood industry.
The federally funded Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board paid for most of the $300,000 project. An additional $500,000 grant paid for bookmarks explaining the state of Alaska's fishing industry. They will be handed out to passengers.
The airline expects to fly more than 30 million pounds of seafood from Alaska to the United States, Canada and Mexico this year.

IHMC is going to PayPal him a few bucks to help him out... If you wish to help him you can find the donation button on his site.

NEW YORK - It seemed like such a great idea: digitally shrink maps of major subway systems and put them online so people can download them to their iPods for free.

Tens of thousands of people have downloaded maps from http://www.ipodsubwaymaps.com since Web designer and blogger William Bright, 27, created it in early August.

San Francisco and New York City officials were less enthusiastic.

A lawyer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority sent Bright a terse "cease and desist" letter in mid-September demanding he immediately remove the New York City subway map from his Web site.

Another letter followed on Sept. 21 from the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, instructing Bright to take down his BART system map.

Both agencies said copyrights they held to the maps barred anyone from repackaging and redistributing them without permission.

Bright, who by day works for the online magazine Nerve.Com, quickly complied with both requests but said he was disappointed.

Read more: Subway Authorities Eye IPod-Friendly Maps - Yahoo! News

Newsday.com - A JetBlue airliner makes an emergency landing at LAX.

Thanks JH!

    

Get yourself one of these new bumper stckers to proudly display your MPG. They're just $3.50 from MPG Stick Inc.

A co-worker of mine had this idea for Hummers when he saw these....

ATHENS (Reuters) - Most of the bodies recovered from the Cypriot plane that crashed into a mountain near Athens with 121 people on board were "frozen solid," a Greek Defense Ministry source said on Monday.

"Autopsy on passengers so far shows the bodies were frozen solid, including some whose skin was charred by flames from the crash," the source, with access to the investigation, told Reuters.

Early indications suggest the 115 passengers and six crew were dead or unconscious when the Helios Airways Boeing 737 plunged to earth on Sunday. There were no survivors.

Rescue workers recovered the pilot's body and said they had also found the plane's black box flight recorders, including the one that records pilot conversations, crucial to determining the cause of the worst air disaster in Greece and the worst involving a Cypriot airline.

Read more: Cyprus plane crash victims "frozen solid" - Yahoo! News

We're getting about 5,000 unique hits a day. I'm guessing at least a few of you people have got some inside connections to road construction industry. I'm convinced this a HUGE scam. It takes like 4 months to resurface a mile of road and yet they can build a brand new McDonalds from the ground up in about 2 weeks.
Every time I go through a construction site there's like 2 guys there doing NOTHING! They should get like 200 guys out there and F'ing get it done! They're ripping off the government aren't they? Tell us here at IHMC anonymously through your comments.