A veritable army of mimes (well, approximately 120) is helping to chastise bad drivers in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. It’s a great idea, but I think midgets or albinos would be much more effective.
Archive for the ‘Vehicles’ Category
eBay is filled with wildly obscure vehicles, but you don’t get much rarer than this formidable beast.
Several contemporary artists including Damien Hirst, Gary Hume and the excellently-named Ai Weiwei have customised a selection of products for the ICA‘s Psychedelica Gala.
The bicycle – the poor man’s mode of transport. Maserati – not quite Aston Martin. Put the two together and you have a charming bicycle.
Bing Crosby was such a dude, they named a search engine after him. His gorgeous 1966 Aston Martin DB5 is up for auction, a car I’d happily trade for my 1994 XJS.
Behold the Lamborghini Akonian Concept car. Of course, like any good prototype, this will never see the light of day, but full credit to Dave Lamborghini and his team for their striking design.
Formula 1 driver Jenson Button is selling his Bugatti Veyron on AutoTrader for a mere £899,995. This most beastly of vehicles can do 0-60mph in an incomprehensible 2.5 seconds, courtesy of its 1,001bhp 8-litre engine. At that price it’s a steal, and I can’t imagine it’d cost more than a few hundred quid to ensure fully comp.
Having been hooked on Starsky & Hutch since childhood, I’m particularly excited to see a factory original, limited edition Starsky & Hutch Gran Torino hit eBay, one of only 1,000 created by Ford in 1976. OK, so Paul Michael Glaser reputedly hated driving them, but you can’t argue with a paint job like that.
