Awesome Rides

This lightweight, single-person electric vehicle will zip along at up to 43mph on water, and takes off at up to 93mph into the air. Flies up to 1.8 miles high. Water landings only, please.

Steve Saleen’s SMS Supercars 2012 Mustang 302 mods come in 440hp, 545hp and 575hp variants with upgraded suspension, exhaust and visual details. Prices start as low as $35k.

Trick out the ride of your dreams right from your computer with Harley’s H-D1 bike builder. Choose from a wide variety of models and an even more mind-boggling array of customization options.

Chevy’s classic muscle car gets a special birthday edition, with bold black body and red stripe details, beefy 20-inch wheels, and a boost from 312 to 323hp for its V6. No word on a V8 edition though.

Has a modular space frame and all steel cab. Hand-assembled and highly configurable, including options like a 2-, 3- or 6-seater cab and gas, natural gas, hybrid or electric motor.

In the future, our buses may look more like sports cars. Designed by a team headed by physicist Dr. Wubbo Ockels, the electric Superbus can carry up to 23 people and go as fast as 155mph.

The sleek Ketterer Continental motorhome is built on a Mercedes-Benz truck chassis and features lounge area, master bedroom with king-size bed and skylight and a garage spot for your Smart Car.

Anderson Germany’s Ferrari 458 Italia Black Carbon Edition includes a new sport hood, carbon air intakes, front apron, rear diffuser and 21″ carbon rims; power is boosted from 570 to 623 hp.

This 2012 ‘Vette sports Carbon Flash metallic paint, satin aluminum wheels, red brake calipers, and magnetic selective ride control. Available in Z06, Grand Sport and ZR1 models. Happy 100th, Chevy!

The athletic, front-wheel drive Mercedes-Benz Concept A-Class features a new turbocharged 4 cylinder gasoline engine, dual clutch transmission and radar-based collision warning system.

Sweden-based Bike By Me is the ColorWare of bicycles. Start off with vanilla and customize the color of its 9 major parts, from the frame to the chain. Also priced like ColorWare goods though.

Artist Andreas Fougner decided to take the front-engined, open-wheel design of ’50s F1 cars and modernize the language for a new passenger car by using a BMW Z4 body; thumbs up to the results.

This is Evolution Motorsports’ EVT1500 Porsche 997.1TT, aka Mayhem. Listen to it roar. EVOMS tweaked the Type 997 engine to crank out 1500hp. Current top speed? 234.6mph. More here and here.

Aston Martin offers a shiny all-black DBS, but if you want it in matte black, Anderson Germany’s Superior Black Edition is the way to go. Modded to pump out 560hp, 50hp more than the stock.

Behold the raw beauty of this gravity bike – made for downhill runs, with no chains, cranks or pedals – made by Jeff Tiedeken aka Monkey Like Shiny. Can go as fast as 80mph. More pics here.

12-time Big Rig Pikes Peak champ Mike Ryan took his 10,000 lb., 1950hp semi truck to the El Toro Marine Base, the site of Ken Block’s first Gymkhana video, and did some drifting of his own.

BMW’s idea of an April Fools’ joke, the “World’s Fastest Pickup” has a 420hp engine and a maximum load capacity of more than 990lbs. It actually looks fairly decent with the Targa roof off.

Among the incredible autos for sale at RM Auction’s invitation-only Villa d’Este car auction are six exotic, one-of-a-kind Bertone concept cars for Lamborghini, Lancia, and Chevrolet.

Created by the official-sounding German Motorcycle Authority, Billy Bob is a stretched-out Harley, juiced up with a 115 hp Revtech 110 – good for about twice the power of the stock engine.

Built by Indonesia-based bike shop Hajarbroxx Motorcycles, the toy-like KillHill is a heavily modified 70s era Honda CB125, built for a client who wanted an “Army Green hill climber.”

Created by Dana Krieger for Seattle’s TEAGUE, this urban bike concept would offer integral LED electric turn signals in the handlebars, a red brake light and TRON-like electroluminescent frame lighting.

We just love the matte-black exterior and gloss alloy wheels on this M3. Powered by an ample 4.0L, 420hp V8, it’s too bad this limited-edition Bimmer is only slated for China at this point.

Parker Brothers built this grown-up version of the fat-tire kids’ trike, The Green Machine. It steers from the rear like the original, but this one has an 80-cubic inch Harley-Davidson engine.