Awesome Rides

In this promo clip from Top Gear Live in Barbados, rally driver Ken Block takes on F1 driver Lewis Hamilton in a race which provides advantages to Ken’s Fiesta in the turns, and Lewis’ AMG in the straights. So who won?

RM Auctions will be selling this 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 that Steve McQueen owned for five years. It has since been fully restored and certified by Ferrari Classiche and has even been displayed at the Ferrari Museum.

With design elements inspired by the GT-R, this tricked out Z has improved aerodynamics, and is loaded with sharp visuals, including 19-inch alloy wheels, Recaro leather seats, Alcantara trim, and touches of NISMO red. More on 95octane.

The muscle car of electric bikes, the aluminum-framed Outlaw SS can ride at up 28mph, thanks to its powerful 750-watt direct drive motor. We’ve ridden one and were grinning from ear to ear at top speed. More here.

Clunker owners are getting better at turning their lemons into Internet lemonade. YouTuber Pony Hans’ ad isn’t as moving as the legendary ’96 Nissan Maxima pitch, but at least his wagon is equipped with both an inside and outside.

With the help of his friends, 21-year-old Alex Kelsey was able to build his own rally car in his family’s garage. He calls it the MC2 – the Mad Creation 2 – a road legal car that can go from 0 to 124mph in just 7 seconds. More here.

At just 1,212lb., the Ariel Atom 3.5R is terrifyingly light, what with its supercharged 2L Honda Type-R engine now producing up to 350hp and 253lb.ft. of torque. It goes from 0 to 60mph in just 2.5s and will reach 100mph in 6s.

Designed to handle the wettest and muddiest off-road courses you can throw at it, this rugged two-seat ATV is powered by a 101hp, 976cc V-Twin engine, and rides atop an air-control suspension system and 30-inch tires.

Based on the powerful, lightweight Ariel Atom, the Beast turns the road-legal track day car into a true supercar, adding a sexy carbon-fiber shell, proper windshield, and either a 315hp, 2.0L turbo, or a 500hp, 2.4L supercharged engine.

Brooklyn-based shop Salt Surf makes beautiful and unique skateboards. The decks are made of layers of maple veneer sandwiched between walnut veneers. They’re sprayed with clear grip tape coating to keep the wood visible.

From 5/21 to 9/7, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta will be hosting Dream Cars, an exhibit of various concept cars from 1932 up to the present, as well as related media. If you can’t make it there, you can check out the gallery.

A bicycle that’s as tough as it is smart. The Valour has a carbon fiber frame and various built-in devices and sensors. It can alert you of objects in your blind spot, provide turn-by-turn navigation, track your biking habits and more.

FlightCar is a unique car rental service. If you’re going to travel by plane, leave your car with FlightCar. You get free parking, and you get extra cash if someone rents your car. Currently available in Boston, LA and San Francisco.

Helicopter fly-overs provide one of the coolest perspectives on rally races. In this clip, the chopper pilot demonstrates his impressive flying abilities, keeping up with every move of the drivers below. More footage here.

The new Porsche Cayman GTS has a mid-mounted 3.4L 6-cylinder engine that produces up to 340hp and 280lb.ft. of torque. The manual variant goes from 0 to 60mph in 4.6s and has a top speed of 177mph.

Not only does it run on diesel – including 100% bio-diesel – Trident claims the Iceni will get up to 2,000mi from its 84L tank. It has a 395hp 6.6L V8 turbocharged engine that produces up to 700lb.ft. of torque and goes up to 190mph.

Jay Leno’s Garage shares the comedian’s gas-guzzling giant. Built by Bob Petersen Engineering in 2011, the 3-ton car is powered by a 27L V12 Rolls-Royce Merlin, an engine that was originally built for World War II airplanes.

The AnalogOne.One is an elegant handcrafted bicycle from artist Mike Pecsok. Each one is made from the wood of your choice. With a Gates CDX belt drive and Schwalbe Big Apple tires, it’s the most beautiful city bike we’ve seen.

The best of the new Golfs might not even make it to showrooms. The R 400 concept has a 2.0L 4-cylinder turbocharged engine that produces 395hp and 332lb.ft. of torque. It goes from 0 to 62mph in 3.9s and has a top speed of 174mph.

The Vision Future Luxury concept is dominated by carbon fiber, leather and wood. It also has a wide digital dashboard, a heads-up display, individual rear seats and a detachable tablet computer to control the rear displays.

Intermingling the best design and driving characteristics of SUV and passenger car, the Mercedes-Benz Concept Coupé SUV builds upon the S-Class Coupé, combining performance and utility in a single vehicle.

Arnd Rohrlapper is an avid fan of 70s F1 cars, so he had Kaffemaschine build this custom bike decked in the black-and-gold of the JPS Lotus cars. The bike is based on the beloved Moto Guzzi Le Mans Mk.3, tweaked to produce 85hp.

The 2015 Dodge Challenger has brains to match its brawn, letting you adjust parameters such as engine and traction control through an 8.4″ touchscreen. It also has a 7″ digital dash. The top-of-the-line model has a 485hp 6.4L Hemi V8.