Are you ready to buy your first amphibious car? In case you do, make sure you watch the video above. The car riding on water here is the WaterCar Python Amphibious Car is said to be the world’s fastest machine capable of running both on water and on regular roads. The car has a V8 engine based on the LS Corvette power train which will get you no less than 640hp when on land. When on water, the Dominator Jet will get you 500hp which means you’ll get a more than decent speed while you’re floating peacefully to your next destination. The car costs around $200,000, but that’s the price to pay if you want a machine capable of going from 0-60mph in 4.5s on land and up to 60mph while on water. What do you think? Is it worth getting it?
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It’s not every day that we look at motorbikes or scooters here but today we have an electric scooter from BMW. It would appear that BMW is ready to embrace electricity. At least when scooters are concerned of course! But can we assume BMW is planning to roll out more electric cars in the future?
Looking to buy the next version of Hyundai Accent? Well then you’re in luck as we have some details and prices for the 2010 model. But let’s check out some of the specs of this fuel efficient Car.
The Motor Show held in Frankfurt this September brought a new R version of the MK VI Golf from Volkswagen. I am talking about the R20, a car that’s now rumored to be sent to U.S. customers too. No decision has been made in that matter but we might see VW officials announce both the two- and four-door R20 versions be announced for the U.S. market soon. It remains to be seen whether the R20 will be available with a choice of manual or DSG transmission, but the R20 seems certain to arrive with all-wheel drive. If it makes it the the States! What do you say? Anxious? Excited? Bored?
If you love BMW and you’re a 5 Series fan then you should try to get one as fast as possible as it looks like the company is thinking about stopping production of the current 5 Series. BMW is already thinking of future models so it might become really difficult for you to actually get your hands on any of the 5 Series Bimmers. Dealers have precise instructions to take “special orders” only as BMW has already stopped taking orders for the E-60 5 Series sedan and wagon. On the other hand, you could always ignore these models of the 5 Series and get ready to get the new models. Apparently the GT version is going to hit the street sometime by the end of the year.
Before we start driving magnetic air cars we will probably switch to electric cars and one of the most important features we’ll take into account when buying one will be the battery. The longer the mile range, the more interested we are. That’s probably the reason why IBM joined forces with UC Berkeley and five US National Labs in order to make an electric battery capable of offering you 500 miles per charge.
The oil reserves of this planet haven’t drenched yet but more and more people are thinking about viable solutions to power our future cars. We already have plenty of more than dependable hybrid or electric cars but what else is out there?
The car you see in the picture here is the e-Wolf e2 and you will be able to snatch one if you have enough cash sometime in 2011 when the e2 is supposed to enter production or even later. The car looks like it came out one of those racing video cars you’ve recently played but it’s very much real. And it’s all electric which is a great quality these days. The e2 will come with 84 lithium-ion battery packs from CERIO and has four 134-horsepower engines under the hood which will be able to offer you 736 foot-pounds of torque and a very good time. The e2 is fully charged in just half an hour and all those battery packs will offer a 187-cruising range. Are all these numbers real? It remains to be seen in about two years time!
How many times have you scratched your car? Or better said, how many people have keyed your cars? What about bumps, parking accidents and so on? I bet you hated going to the shop to have your car paint again and again, didn’t you? And because small accidents will always happen Toyota has conceived a brand new clear-coat paint which will be able to regenerate itself. No matter how many times you’d have your Toyota car scratched, the paint will recover. The way it works is fairly easy if you know a thing or two about physics and chemistry. The paint will have a secret ingredient inside which will help molecules stay closer together and thus offer the paint a new level of flexibility and elasticity. The new coat should be available on the new Lexus LS but you’d better check back with your local Toyota dealer for more info on the matter!
A few days ago we showed you Honda’s U3-X personal mobility device, a gadget that has been probably inspired by the Segway. Today we have found the perfect box to store the U3-X. And we like to call it the Honda EV-N electric car concept. That’s right, you heard me correctly! The tiny car in the picture will house that U3-X of yours right inside the door. It’s a two-for-one deal but we have no prices at this point. In fact we don’t even know if these projects are going to make it past the prototype stage but we’ll be back with more details after the Tokyo Motor Show. That’s where you’ll see this dynamic duo emerge. 
It’s not every day that you see Microsoft and Ford working closely together but it seems that Windows 7 deserves some special attention. Microsoft’s newest operating system will be promoted by Ford too which is a weird decision… or isn’t it? Not that it’s wrong to support Microsoft but since Ford is, well, a car maker, it sounds pretty strange to lobby for a computer company. 
I bet you were not expecting this but Tesla’s Model S seems to have hit the jackpot for the company. I am not referring to Model S sales, which are also impressive, but rather on the Model S platform itself which could be used in various other electric cars. According to Diarmuid O’Connell, Tesla’s VP of Business Development, the platform will be used for a minivan, a cross-over utility vehicle and an utility van. That should be the logical next step! At some point in time all our cars will run on electricity rather than petrol fumes so why not start making the first steps now? Unfortunately for us no actual roadmap has been leaked so far so we’re still in the dark when it comes to features and even names of the future Tesla cars.