BMW’s Mini Cooper inspired Mini Scooter E was revealed in London yesterday. The electric vehicle uses a lithium ion battery, and has detailing reminiscent of the iconic car.
The Tremolastrasse is Switzerland’s longest memorial to road construction. It snakes up as a light-coloured ribbon from Airolo to the Gotthardpass. Enjoy impressive views of the road on the mule track from the pass into the upper Levantine.
The world-famous serpentine road on slopes of the Val Tremola was created with the construction of the Gotthard Pass road. On the most spectacular section, the road climbs 300 metres altitude around 24 bends over a distance of four kilometres. Each bend has its own name. The pass road from Göschenen to Airolo was built between 1827 and 1832 to plans by Francesco Meschini, after the access roads from Basel and Chiasso had been continually developed in the decade from 1810.
Today the Tremolastrasse largely retains the appearance of the reconstruction completed in 1951. The road is six to seven metres wide and bordered by retaining walls up to eight metres thick. The old drystone walls still exist in places. The granite cobblestones and kilometre stones have for the most part been retained but the two road inspectors’ houses have vanished. Until it was demolished in 1989, the first house stood at the beginning of the Tremolastrasse. The second was sited a little further up, beneath the von Voltone. Destroyed by an avalanche in 1874, it was never rebuilt because of the imminent opening of the Gotthard Railway in 1882.
via / wanderland.myswitzerland.com
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All across Pakistan, this rolling folk art has turned village lanes, city streets and long-distance highways into a national gallery without walls, a free-form, kaleidoscopic exhibition in perpetual motion. The vast majority of Pakistan’s trucks, buses and motorized rickshaws are riots of color, bedizened top to bottom with eye-popping landscapes, portraits, calligraphic poetry, religious verses and wisecracking expressions of star-spangled banter. Only the biggest, blandest container freight trucks, the 18-wheeler rigs, escape decoration, looking naked by comparison.
“you can look at a truck an tell exactly what region it comes from and what ethnic group the drivers belongs to”
Subaru TribecaCorbin Sparrow
Nissan S-Cargo
Nissan Cube
AMC Gremlin
Nissan Micra C+C
Kia Opirus / Amanti
Tang Hua Book of Songs
Skoda Roomster
Ford Scorpio
G-Wiz
Lamborghini LM 002
Aston Martin Lagonda
Mini Marcos
This is the list published by The Examiner (www.examiner.com)
Do you thing ugly cars exist?
Aurora. An a spaceship car.
Citroen Ami 6
AMC Pacer
Pontiac Aztek
Ssangyong Rodius
Lightburn Zeta Sports
Volkswagen Thing
Hua Detroit Fish
Ford Edsel
Suzuki X-90
Sebring-Vanguard citiCar
Zap Xebra Electric Truck
Fiat Multipla
Subaru Baja
Reliant Bond Bug
Please continue reading Top 30 ugliest cars (part 2):
http://clasicar.biz/blog/?p=1282
Artist Hannes Langeder has daringly spoofed excess and car culture with the Ferdinand GT3 RSX, a mock Porsche that looks great and can make the claim to be the “world’s slowest Porsche.” He’s even brought it out to the track to test the claim, where a sunglassed announcer in a cream-colored suit hypes it up before revealing that it’s actually powered by a hidden bicycle.
The aluminum foil Porsche is currently on display at the Museum of Art Linz in Austria. Most righteously, it’s even inspired an essay by a philosophy professor at the University of Vienna, which is reproduced on
Hannes Langeder’s website. A snippet run through Google Translate, from which you can get the gist (fast juxtaposed with slow) and also marvel at translation-proof words like “StaßenbenützerInnen.”The object of art to be understood as a deliberate contribution to the deceleration. It is here not to ring the joke (ha, ha, who now travels with the sports car-rickshaw!). It rather undermines Hannes Langeder the futuristic ideology of the machine and the speed of glory: With an art form that is not immediately reveal themselves as such and thus removed from the area everyday, into museums. It is to stimulate a bicycle Porsche just to the presence in this public space, therefore, to reflect on the possible transformation of our world, and so enter into a dialogue with other StaßenbenützerInnen to. The Gehzeug of the transport planner Knoflacher comes to mind, that portable frame with the size of a car that is by diagonal cables for a people easy to carry. With it can pedestrians in the flow traffic lane on the roadway and slow down the traffic. The Gehzeug is a brilliant demonstration object in the truest sense, his direction has clearly propagandist in nature and will point out the absurdity of our means of transportation.
via geekosystem.com
An elderly couple in Bosnia have covered their VW Beetle in more than 20,000 handmade small oak pieces which were glued to the bodywork and then varnished. The car can be driven legally.
