The ICON Bronco is a beautiful vintage SUV that prides itself on its attention to design. ICON scours around for old Broncos, and then strips it down, reverse engineers it and makes it better than it ever was. Look how gorgeous these SUVs are.
Earlier this year, Nevada became the first US state to approve the use of self-driving cars on its highways. Now, it’s granted its first licence for the vehicles, and it goes to — what a surprise — Google.
If driving up to a campsite and setting up a tent is too much “roughing it” to endure, this tent/truck chimera is just what you need to enjoy the great outdoors without sacrificing the amenities of a cabin.
In Belgium, a non-profit organisation called Responsible Young Drivers told people taking their driving test that they had to prove themselves “able to use a mobile phone while driving” as part of their driving test, which meant they had to avoid an obstacle while texting and driving at the same time. As you can imagine, the tests don’t end well.
When you’re walking through the set of a Michel Gondry film, you can’t expect that everything is going to seem normal, or even make sense. Case in point, he’s currently shooting an adaptation of Boris Vian’s The Froth on the Daydream on location in France, where Yan-Alexandre snapped these photos of a series of utterly bizarre hacked-together vehicles.
The latest example of random insanity from the Russian roads captured by dashcam shows, in rather direct fashion, how one worker’s negligence can quickly translate into an SUV flying through the air.
A Burning Man vet is selling this absurd “Mutant Vehicle/Art Car” on Craigslist — fashioned in the likeness of a milk carton and cereal bowl — and has chopped down the price in hopes that some ambitious soul will buy and haul it over to Burning Man this year.
You’ve seen slow-mo footage of crash tests before. For some weird reason, auto makers love to show its cars being demolished. This awesome short shows all of the preparation that goes into recreating the chaos and carnage at moment of impact.
Until Pixar came along and ruined things, headlights were often seen as a vehicle’s eyes. But Mercedes-Benz refuses to give up on that anthropomorphic fantasy. Even to the point of designing a mechanical turn signal system in its new Concept Style Coupe that looks like fluttering, flirting eyelashes.
