Rides

The Hybrid Air is a concept car with an air tank and a compressor. It can run on its 3-cylinder gas engine or purely by compressed air. The two systems can also work in tandem for more power.

74-year old Venisio Pagani’s prized possession is a 1943 Peugeot. He and his brothers worked hard to restore the antique car, but the reward that they got at the end was beyond his wildest dreams.

Watch as driver Paulo Martinho pops backwards wheelies, dizzying spins and all sorts of unnatural maneuvers in his little yellow Peugeot. Driving on those rims can’t possibly be good for them.

Mini finally shares full footage of rally driver Guerlain Chicherit completing a backflip in a custom John Cooper Works Mini Countryman. Be sure to watch it til the end. More on the stunt here.

Conceived by creative agency LOLA Madrid, Bicycled is series of unique, handmade bicycles made from old car parts found in junkyards. Sign up to get on the waiting list for one. (Thanks Elias!)

AMG enters the hot hatch arena with a souped-up version of the A-Class. The A45 AMG has a 360hp 2L turbocharged 4-cylinder engine, goes 0-60mph in 4.5s and has a top speed of 155mph.

A highly modified version of the Ural Solo sT, Icon Motosport’s QuarterMaster is built for off-roading, with a braced headstock, long-travel suspension, reinforced swingarm and knobby tires.

Smittybilt’s G.E.A.R. front and rear seat covers for Jeep vehicles provide plenty of additional storage without taking up a lot of space. Tailgate and overhead console covers are also available.

For the upcoming SyFy show/video game combo Defiance, the vehicle team took a stock Charger, and decked it out with everything needed to outrun alien killing machines. Video footage here.

The newest member of the 3 Series is a versatile ride. Its 520L cargo capacity can be increased to 1,600L when the rear sets are folded. Available in gas and diesel engine variants. More here.

Nissan lightens the load for its stellar 545hp GT-R, ripping out the silly rear row of seats, adding carbon fiber details and amping up the suspension with Bilstein shocks and tightened springs.

Designers Gao Fenglin and Zhou Buyi’s concept for tires would use colored layers to indicate how worn the treads are in a much more obvious way than today’s difficult to use tread wear indicators.

This Arab-built supercar has a 750hp twin-turbo flat-six, diamond-encrusted LED headlights and gold-stitched leather inside. Only 7 will be made, with a sheiks-only price of $3.4M. Design video here.

To promote the MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde SBK, Alfa Romeo asked bike rider Chris Walker to head into a turn on his Kawasaki Ninja with driver Paul Swift showing off on his Alfa two-wheeler.

BBC was kind enough to upload part of a skit from the first episode of Top Gear’s latest season that made fun of compact cars. Behold: Jeremy Clarkson’s hybrid death trap, the P45.

Watch as a model of economy, the Volvo 245 Station Wagon, becomes sexy before your very eyes thanks to a Toyota Supra engine and some reckless hooning from YouTuber Pbjorck.

Audi’s Super Bowl commercial hypes up the S6 sedan, but it doesn’t focus on its technical aspects or aesthetics. It’s all about the brand’s confidence-bestowing swagger. And breaking dad’s trust.

Aston Martin upgrades the Rapide to make what the company claims is its most powerful four-door sedan yet. The Rapide S has a 558hp 5.9L V12 engine and a bolder – perhaps too bold – grille.

Driving on ice give us nightmares in which we both drown and freeze to death. But that didn’t stop this guy from creating a vehicle that can drive across fractured ice and extract itself from icy waters.