Crazy Vehicle

BMW Designs A 42-Wheel, 19-Engine Car To Fulfill One Child's Fantasy the email by ELI uncle is  Last night my 4-year-old Jalop of a nephew Eli and I had a serious conversation about the car he wants to build. I know there are a lot of talented artists out there in the Jalopnik commentariat, and I would like to ask them all if they would consider drawing up their "Artist's Conception" of the car according to the carefully considered specifications he came up with. I would just love to give him a tangible expression of what his awesome imagination came up with. If anyone is particularly ambitious, I have access to a 3D printer so if someone puts together a solid .stl I could even print it for him (and a copy for whoever puts it together). So here are the specs he came up with, with surprisingly little input from myself: - It's a BMW - 42 wheels, and of course 42-wheel drive - It is powered by 19 Porsche engines, each producing 459 horsepower. I think they...

When the car was first featured at General Motors’ “Highways and Horizons” pavilion, it was a massive hit. Most people wouldn’t have seen Plexiglas before, so a transparent material with that many curves was almost unheard of.   Here you could look through the body of the car to see all its internal workings exposed. For aesthetic purposes all structural metal was given a copper wash, while the hardware and even the dashboard were covered in chrome. All the rubber elements in the car were made in white, including the tires. The final price for the car? In the days when a new Pontiac was just about $700, this beauty cost $25000 to build.  When this car was auctioned by  RM Auctions  in 2011, it went for just a little more than its original price. The one-of-a-kind car sold for $308,000. The Pontiac “Ghost” is equipped with a 2.2 liter six-cylinder engine, developing 85 horsepower and connected to a three-speed manual transmission. The transparent car is fitted with...

A private British  super vehicle  collector has the bike for the past 17 years, during which he has displayed it as a work of art in the drawing room of his opulence  home. Finally, he has now taken the decision to put his Ferrari 900 under the hammer. David Kay wrote to Enzo Ferrari’s son Piero, requesting to have permission to build a one-off motorbike sporting the famous Ferrari prancing horse logos, and in May 1990 Kay got the reply he wanted:  the approval to place the Ferrari logo on your motorbike.  It was finished in 1995. The bike, a  Ferrari 900,  which took Kay approximately 75 weeks  to complete, has a 900cc engine producing 105hp, and is capable of 0-60mph in less than 3 second with a top speed of  257kmph . It was built from scratch and features a  scratch built  900cc, transverse, double overhead camshaft, 4 cylinder, 8 valve unit with magnesium and alloy casings, driven through a 5-speed gearbox. The two double ...