Category: Vehicles
Bowers & Wilkins unveils Jaguar XF Premium In-Car Sound System
Following on from their Jaguar XXR audio system, Bowers & Wilkins has unveiled the 14-speaker audio system fitted in the luxurious Jaguar XF.
Engineers from Jaguar and B&W worked in collaboration right from the car’s conception, performing extensive analysis and prototype testing to determine the ideal layout and locations for the speakers. Goal: to develop the best ever audio experience in a car.
B&W technologies included its patented woven-Kevlar diver material, the uniquely textured square-weave cones made from bulletproof material which eliminates standing waves in its midrange and bass drivers, and their metal-dome tweeter transducer.
The Lightning GT – an electric car you wouldn't be ashamed to be seen in
While electric car buffs are a bit busy getting excited about the upcoming Tesla Roadster, British based Lightning Car Company has come out with a blinding little sporty concept of its own.
The Lightning GT’s stats are amazing – 0-60 in four seconds…
Barbecue chopper – burns rubber and undercooks chicken
What do you get if you mix a love of the open road with a love of burnt meat? The barbecue chopper.
HyperBike reinvents the Penny Farthing for 21st-century road warriors
A bicycle that goes at 50mph? Surely bikes are meant to be pushed at 2mph, while eating an ice cream and tipping your hat to passers by? But then I’m old-skool that way.
Curtis DeForest isn’t, so he invented the HyperBike, which is a cross between the Penny Farthing and those big balls that you can strap yourself into to roll down hills (zorbing, I think it’s called).
The pool table made out of a VW campervan
Outstanding. No idea who made it, how much it costs, or whether VW will do the decent thing and start mass-manufacturing these. But it’s from Ohio, its owner paid the previous owner $8,000 for it, and you can store your balls beneath its engine flap.
Want want want.
Baby you can drive my car (if you're a PS3)
The link between console games and real-world driving is tenuous at best, although I did fail my driving test after ramming an oncoming VW Polo, carjacking it and driving off with Classic FM blaring out, stopping only to baseball-bat a prostitute to death. A major fault, apparently.
Nissan tests car breathalyser to keep drunks off the road
Drink driving is a problem everywhere – but in Japan, it’s a particularly serious problem, prompting Nissan to launch a concept car fitted with a breathalyser-like system to keep drinkers off the roads.
The DeLorean could be making a comeback
For most men, boys, uncomfortable youths and girls who are into that sort of thing, the DeLorean car is the ultimate vehicle fantasy. Ferrari’s are for idiot footballers – real men want a dirty DeLorean.
Even before it was immortalised in Back to the Future, the flashy gull-wing motor just had a bit of magic about it, thanks to its space-age (for 1982) angular looks…
Ministry of Sound launches pink MOSCA110MP3P in-car CD tuner
With so many cars blasting out cheesy house music, it’s only right that the Ministry of Sound should be selling in-car players – the latest of which is the MOSCA110MP3P in-car CD tuner in a rather bright pink.
Top five boats to escape the UK floods (because our car's now full of salmon)
Yes, yes, we all know how the entirety of England is eight foot under water – infact, I’m typing this on my laptop in my garden, where the water is just under my armpits. Might explain why I keep on getting zapped and my hair’s all frizzy. Oh…
Floods equals water. A ton of water, at that. And a bunch of water equals…BOATS! Yes, boats big and small, yachts, dinghys, catamarans, heck even junks if your heart so desires. So what’s the best boat to zip around in in your local ‘hood, where you can deliver fresh water to that cute girl a couple of doors away? Read on below for our top five…
