Awesome Rides

The Balmain Boat Company sells flat-packed mini rowboat and sailboat kits. Each kit has most of what you need to build the boat, including nails and screws. It takes about 30 hours to put a boat together.

Like the Atom, the Mono and the X-Bow, the VUHL 05 is a lightweight street legal race car. It has a 2L 285hp EcoBoost engine and a monocoque chassis. It goes from 0-60mph in 3.7s and has a top speed of 152mph.

Legendary pro driver Sir Stirling Moss deems the Maserati 300S as the “nicest sports car” that he ever drove. This particular unit that Bonhams will auction off on 7/12/13 competed in American circuits from 1955 to 1958.

An unusual vehicle made from sustainable materials, designers Kenneth Cobonpue and Albrecht Birkner’s car would have a woven skin, replaceable after it biodegrades. Not the most practical concept, but still visually striking.

A team of parkour artists take on an unlikely challenger – a Porsche 997 Carrera GTS. While the car might have 402 horses and a top speed of 190mph, the athletes have a bit more ground clearance and make tighter turns.

Crafted from ash plywood and steel, we like the clean lines of the WOOD.b bicycle, a collaboration from Strasbourg-based BSG and Thibaut Malet. Available in September 2013.

It’s not as nimble as a Ford Fiesta, but we’re still impressed with the tight turns, donuts and drifts pulled off by Michiel Becx in his semi. Those tire squeals are like music to our ears. Now who’s gonna clean up all that broken glass?

The drop-dead gorgeous 918 Spyder is now in functional prototype form, and has been making the rounds across the globe. Enjoy some brief footage of this sexy beast as it stopped to flex its muscle for wealthy suitors in the Middle East.

The C-X75 concept gets refined significantly, resulting in a hybrid 850hp beast, designed to achieve “the speed of a Veyron, the range of a Volt and the CO2 of a Prius.” Goes 0-to-100mph in 6 secs., and is the new object of our desire.

Turn a minivan into a camper van with the QUQUQ. Place it at the rear compartment of your vehicle and you now have a stove, a bed, jerry cans, and shelves to store cooking implements and other tools.

XCAR takes us on a tour of ten race courses which are not only thrilling, but have a record of some of the most deadly accidents in the history of racing. A sobering reminder of how dangerous the pastime of racing can be.

Even though they share the same engine, the Vanquish Volante is more than just a top-down version of the Vanquish. It’s the first Volante to have a fully carbon fiber body and borrows details from the fabled One-77.

With the 90th 24 Hours of Le Mans race this weekend (6/22-23), here’s a wonderful retrospective and introduction to the race, created by Bentley Motors in celebration of the 10-year anniversary of their last win.

Tesla car owners can recharge their cars for free at a Tesla Supercharge stations, but recently the company announced a new option: a $60-$80 battery swap that is twice as fast as filling up a gas tank. More at i4U.

A German-engineered electric scooter, the Scrooser has a 1000W motor and a 20Ah battery, letting you cruise up to 15mph for 22mi. Fortunately, its aluminum frame is light enough that you can still propel it with your feet.

Shpilli Villi’s pimped out Nissan takes on the 1001HP king of speed, beating it handily off the line and through the 1/4 mile thanks to its AWD drivetrain, and coming in neck and neck in the mile. Though the Bugatti will soon pull away.

A team of engineering students from BYU have developed a single passenger vehicle that weighs just 99 lbs and is capable of getting over 1300 miles per gallon with its lawnmower engine – though it only hits a top speed of 25mph.

The eleMMent Palazzo is a $3 million RV. It has a lounge that pops up on its roof and it can also extend its interior area by 80% at the push of a button. The Palazzo: because your homies can’t all fit in your Bugatti.

Colin Furze is known for making amped-up, but horribly dangerous vehicles. His latest creation? A bicycle with a ridiculous, fire-spewing jet propulsion system. Go figure his biggest problem was the tires.

With just a handful of exceptions, every visible surface of the Diavel Dark is matte black – even its engine. With 162 hp to push it along, its underlying power is just as dark and demonic as its looks.

Pagani claims that this black beauty will be the last to carry the Zonda name. It has a carbon-titanium monocoque, an 800hp 6L V12 AMG engine, a 6-speed magnesium gearbox and F1-inspired Brembo brakes.

The Disco Volante Touring is a rear-wheel drive coupé with a 450hp, 4.7-litre V8 engine.  It is the successor to the original Flying Saucer, the 1952 Disco Volante 1900 C52. Hear it roar here. Go inside its construction here.

Mercedes’ iconic three-pointed star is now available as an LED-illuminated option on the 2014 E, 2013+ GL, 2012+ M and 2006+ CLS-Class. While aftermarket options might look tacky, Mercedes makes it classy and high-tech.