What is a 100-meter run in athletics, is a "drag race" in motorsport, a 402-meter acceleration race. In this year's fifth edition of the largest race of its kind in the world, the World's Greatest Drag Race, the ten best driver-oriented cars of the year, selected by Motor Trend magazine, collided again. Check out which in this colorful array of supercars and sports cars celebrated in 2015.
The Gi FlyBike is a folding electric bike that folds in a single second and is more than the ideal means of transportation for urban environments. Thanks to its aluminum frame, it weighs less than 17 kilograms, it is connected to a smartphone that serves for navigation and participates in automatic unlocking/locking, and it also charges the phone while driving. It is powered by a 250-watt brush motor, and the battery offers 64 kilometers of "autonomy".
When money is not a problem, it is good to keep up with the times. This is exactly what the Russian billionaire did, who exchanged his 256 million yacht for a 360 million sailboat! Andreja Melničenko thus became the owner of the largest sailboat in the world, as much as 142 meters long (the previous one was clearly too small), named White Pearl. Unlike other luxury vessels, this is a sailing ship, and its masts reach the heavens. The tallest rises as high as 90 meters (for comparison, the skyscraper in Ljubljana is 70 meters high)!
Although James Bond has already driven a Jaguar in the movies (the XKR in Die Another Time), he will be seen once more in an Aston Martin (DB10) in Spectre. But serious competition for the most beautiful and best car will be offered by the Jaguar C-X75 concept, which was first presented in 2010 at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and five years later it returned to the scene of the crime in the company of Naomie Harris (Moneypenny) and David Bautista. In the latest Bondiad, it will be driven by the latter, who plays one of the main villains.
It is really extremely difficult to make a car that contains as many nuances as the new Renault Kadjar. Basically, it's a car that wants to be everything. Family sedan, station wagon and SUV in one. It's not always good to cram so many shades of a car into a single concept. However, Renault seems to have done it well.
The Audi E-tron Quattro Concept is the first to arrive in Ingolstadt for Audi's "audition" for the all-electric luxury SUV, which will hit the roads in its final form in 2018 and will be positioned between the Q5 and Q7 models. It is a pure electric study of a crossover with an extremely low coefficient of air resistance, which was presented to the public at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Hyundai also added its beeper to the GTA 6 computer game fleet. Yes Hyundai. And it may well happen that you will choose the utopian 872-horsepower Hyundai N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo rather than Bugatti's Vision Gran Turismo, with which the two are currently competing for the attention of visitors at the Frankfurt Motor Show. It is a virtual fuel cell racing car that will not be available in showrooms but only on the Playstation 3 game console for the video game Gran Turismo 6. It is a n-announcement of the arrival of N vehicles, vehicles with extremely high performance and their potential.
Sliders is a folding bike that is also a scooter. Its unique frame design without an upper cross tube offers the possibility to push it like a ski. Are you wondering where the usefulness of this hybrid is? It is a brilliant concept, especially for large cities where pedestrians and cyclists often share space. In such places (pedestrian zones, etc.) you usually have to push your bike alongside you, but instead you can now comfortably push it like a scooter, which is faster than walking, but still much safer for passers-by. Fold it with a slight kick in the pedal, and with the handlebars you can push it to the "resting place" like a manual lawnmower.
The Mercedes-Benz Concept IAA is a digital transformer as slippery as soap, as it has a record low drag coefficient. The Germans presented the intelligent aerodynamic car at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and the four-seater coupe, as expected, garnered tremendous interest. It went from idea to concept in a mere 11 months, which is a reflection of the advancement of technology, which practically cut this process in half. Now a large part is done by advanced computer simulations and "filigree" digital plans. Mercedes is therefore betting on smart factories, but still "human-centric", and cooperation with robots will be closer. And the first child of this vision is the Mercedes-Benz Concept IAA study.
Mercedes' in-house tuner Brabus has had its eye on the Mercedes-AMG GT S sportsman for some time now, and now it's finally revealed the reworked version. Despite the fact that the car is still in its infancy, it can already produce 600 horsepower and 553 Nm of torque. This is enough, says Brabus, to go from standstill to 100 km/h in just 3.6 seconds and reach a maximum speed of over 320 km/h.
The Porsche Mission E concept car is the result of thinking that if we had endless money and all the knowledge at our disposal, we would... German engineers were in this skin, so this is a luxury sports sedan with 600 horses, which powered by electricity, armed to the teeth with the best they have. They pushed the drive to the 919 Hybrid race car, while for the construction they looked to the production hybrid Spyder 918 and its version for the Le Mans endurance race, and they also removed the battery. Two built-in electric motors produce 600 horsepower, and it accelerates from zero to 100 km/h in 3.5 seconds. Oh, and it charges faster than a Tesla!
Would you like to give your motorcycle a street, "streetfighter" look? Thanks to the equipment made by Huge Design, you can now convert your Honda CBR1000RR (year 2008 or younger) into a streetfighter and do it yourself. Strip it of excess armor and put on special handles, headlights, rear, etc., for the look of a modern street machine that would not be ashamed of James Bond movies, The Fast and the Furious or Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible.