BMC impec Lamborghini Edition
Take a radically high-end bicycle, collaborate with an exotic sports car giant on a co-branded limited version, and you have the BMC impec Lamgorghini Edition. Swiss bike maker BMC Racing’s motto is “handmade by machines,” referring to their use of customized industrial robotics to assemble advanced carbon fiber composites at high degrees of precision. The...
Budnitz Bicycles No. 3 Honey Special Edition
Beautifully engineered, gorgeously styled, the Budnitz Bicycles No. 3 Honey Special Edition is a charming head-turner that performs like a beast. The elegant lines, in glossy black, are inspired by vintage Dutch bicycles, while the geometry, lightweight cro-moly steel cantilever frame and fork, with titanium handlebars, seatpost and stem, Gates carbon belt drive, and 29″...
Audi RS Q3 Concept
Audi’s five-door Q3 SUV-meets-car crossover, launched in 2011, gets the high performance treatment with the Audi RS Q3 Concept, unveiling now at the Beijing Motor Show. Muscularity is delivered via a 360hp direct injection turbocharged 2.5 liter engine, with 0-62 mph in 5.2 seconds, and a top speed of 164 mph, with seven-speed S tronic...
Leader Japan 2012 725TR Fixed Gear Bike
San Diego’s Leader creates an exclusive for its Japanese store, the Leader Japan 2012 725TR Fixed Gear, a custom-colour build based on its popular 725 aluminum frame. The limited edition colours are Ice Silver Metallic (above), inspired by German sports cars, and Rosso Corsa, that looks back at red French and Italian sports cars of...
Peugeot RCZ Brownstone Limited Edition
The Peugeot RCZ Brownstone Limited Edition tricks out the already striking and posh Peugeot RCZ sports coupe, coating its sculptural curves with a custom Guaranja Brown paint job, adding a glossy black grille with matching brake calipers, and Magny-Cours 19-inch alloy wheels, and wrapping the interior in Cohiba leather and luxury-synthetic Alcantara. Other extras include...
Chrysler Chinese-influenced Concept Cars
Chrysler marks its return to the Chinese market with two new Chinese-influenced Concept Cars, reimageering the Chrysler 300 and all-American Jeep Wrangler with what appear to be mainly styling makeovers. The 300c offers an all-black exterior, a lighter, two-toned interior, with leather seats embossed with a design that looks like wind, and oversized wheels. The...
X-9 Nighthawk
Yes, Stealth bombers and the Dark Knight’s Batcycle come to mind with the experimental X-9 Nighthawk advanced, fixed-gear concept bike by Brano Meres Engineering and Design—this is the actual working prototype, not a rendering. The focus is the frame, an exotic combination of carbon fiber skin over water-jet cut panels of aramid honeycomb (think Kevlar)....
SR Auto Scion iQ
Vancouver-based luxury car customizer, SR Auto Group, transformed the tiny, frienly Scion iQ city car into the curiously tough looking SR Auto Scion iQ, the objectivebeing, “to create a car that would leave you speechless.” Hmmm… They called it Project Pryzm, based on the triangular iQ profile, and started by adjusting the height with 18″ Sparco wheels, then overhaulded the interior with...
ThinBike
ThinBike cuts bicycle storage space requirements in half with a twist of the handlebars and a flip of the pedals. The trick is accomplished with a minimum of hassle, using Speedlifter Twist handlebars and MKS folding pedals. The bike is a modified Schindelhauer Viktor, a premium 8.2 kg, aluminum frame, fixed-gear city ride, featuring Shimano Alfine...