Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Ferrari Globetrotter

  Published: October 4, 2007, 7:49 am

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle, Video Clips, Commercial, Ferrari, Shell

  Shell commercial featuring a Ferraris racing through major world cities. Make sure to turn your speakers up so you can hear the sound of the engine. Link [YouTube] - via core77

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• Pivo 2

  Published: October 6, 2007, 12:52 pm

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle, Only In Japan

  its new Pivo 2 concept car last week in Japan. It has no axles; the four wheels operate independently. Both the wheels and the cab can rotate, eliminating the need for reverse gear. Sure makes parking a breeze! The car also features an onboard robot who can help with navigation and will check to see if you are too sleepy to drive. Push play

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• Hauntrod, the Perfect Roadster for Halloween

  Published: October 9, 2007, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle, Pictures

  Here’s an excellent ride for Halloween: the Hauntrod, a custom build roadster that can be yours for a ghoulish price of just $8,500. Link - via Boing Boing and Born Rich, thanks Naveen!

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• Somersault Flip Bike

  Published: October 9, 2007, 1:09 pm

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle

  Jen Carroll of For Glory and Bicycles blog shot this clip of a "somersault flip" bicycle mod by a fellow named Travis, who gave a performance at the Rat Patrol pig roast in Chicago. Link [embedded YouTube] - Thanks Jen!

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• PARK(Ing) Day

  Published: October 10, 2007, 5:05 am

  Tags: Art, Car Amp 038 Vehicle, Pictures, Travel Amp 038 Places

  Last month, San Francisco artists and activists took over parking spots around the city and turned them into "PARK(ing)" spaces or temporary public parks! Image: squash [Flickr] There was even this strange contraption called the ParkCycle, which its builder Reuben Margolin, John Bela, Blaine Merker and Matt Passmore pedaled near San

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• The Cute and Squishy Honda PUYO

  Published: October 10, 2007, 5:02 am

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle, Pictures

  Pivo 2 concept car, you’ll get a kick out of this as well: the Honda PUYO. Apparently, Honda engineers worked hard to bring us a car with no discernible edge and uses a gel-like substance instead of cold metal (indeed, "puyo" is how Japanese sounds out "touching the vehicle’s soft body.") Link - via

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• The Dragonmobile Mobility Scooter

  Published: October 12, 2007, 2:42 pm

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle, Crafts Amp 038 Diy, Pictures

  To celebrate the launch of JK Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Craftster user sophieangele dressed up her mobility scooter as a dragon to match her costume! Link - via IZ Reloaded Previously on Neatorama: Turning Mobility Scooter into a Horse

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• Single Bamboo Cane Row Boat

  Published: October 15, 2007, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle, Cellar Image, Pictures, Sports

  Today’s collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day brings us this photo of the strangest row boat ever: a single bamboo cane! Villagers from Chishui, near Zuiyi city, came up with the idea, reports News Express. They make the boats out of locally grown bamboo and hold races on the Pinzhou River. "Participants can sit or stand on the

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• Photoshop Your Car For Your Kids.

  Published: October 16, 2007, 12:01 am

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle, Computer Amp Amp Technology

  seen the Disney-Pixar movie Cars. The Subaru Impreza Owners Club forum has a great Photoshop tutorial on how to make your car look like it belongs in the movie. I can’t wait to take a picture of my son standing next to our bright red 2-door and convert it into Lightning McQueen.

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• Blue Angels Over San Francisco Bay: How Low Can You Go?

  Published: October 16, 2007, 2:43 pm

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle, Pictures

  This awesome photo is of a US Navy Blue Angels jet flying low on the water of San Francisco Bay - check out the sonic boom (?) as the jet flies amidst sail boats. Link - via Cellar Image of the Day (great discussion, including the invariable inevitable "photoshop!" allegation and more pics there)

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• Ron de Jong’s Switchbike

  Published: October 16, 2007, 2:32 pm

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle

  Martijn of Freshcreations wrote to us: During Holland Innovation I ran into an incredible bike made by Ron de Jong: the Switchbike. The bicycle can be used in two different settings: 1) as a regular city bike, 2) as a lowrider. You can simply switch from one setting to the other by turning the left handle on the steering. Ron is still looking

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• Cannonball Run

  Published: October 17, 2007, 1:41 pm

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle, Feats Amp Amp Records

  Alex Roy and Dave Maher have set a new record for driving across the US. They covered 2,795 miles from New York to Los Angeles in 31 hours and 4 minutes, beating the previous record of 32 hours and 7 minutes. This was Roy's third attempt at the illegal (and unsafe) Cannonball Run . Link -via Metafilter, where you'll find more links on this

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• Prius Stretch Limo

  Published: October 22, 2007, 4:43 am

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle, Crafts Amp 038 Diy, Pictures

  This Prius owner modded his car into a custom 10-seater Prius Limo, while still maintaining 50 mpg fuel efficiency. It took him 200 hours of fabrication at a cost of about $10,000. And no, it’s not a photoshop job (if you read the whole thread, it started out as someone snapping a camera phone pic of the Prius Limo on the road, who got

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• An Environmentally Friendly Hummer?

  Published: October 22, 2007, 12:19 am

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle

  Continental to a hybrid supercar that gets over 100mpg. Wow. You can read the entire neat story behind Goodwin’s conversions at Fast Company. Pic via

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• The Saga of The Crapster

  Published: October 21, 2007, 5:16 pm

  Tags: Car Amp 038 Vehicle, Crafts Amp 038 Diy, Crime, Pictures, Video Clips

  drama: the beloved toilet car had gone missing: … soapbox racers were more than a little dismayed when they woke Monday morning to find their U-Haul truck had been stolen from outside a downtown Seattle hotel. And whoever had been trolling for loot must have been surprised to open the cargo door and see the 7-foot-tall carpeted toilet.

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