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Optimus Subprime

Chris — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:34:16 +0000

Bizarre but marvellously effective home-made campervan, created by three Japanese friends using a decrepit mid-80s Toyota Toyoace. [Thanks Daniel.]

Weird Science

Chris — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:14:50 +0000

Very strange motorcycle camper trailer from a 1930s Popular Science magazine.

Big air

Chris — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:22:16 +0000

Drive it like you stole it: eyepopping video of the Russian Kamaz 4×4 truck in action at an exhibition.

Yikes, it’s the Nike 6.0 Ill Mobile

Chris — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:50:54 +0000

Nike’s eight-wheeled ‘Ill Mobile‘, an amphibious armor-plated war-truck from 1959 transformed into an extreme sport HQ.

Toyota’s bizarre 1972 ‘camperwagon’

Chris — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:46:55 +0000

The very strange Toyota RV-2 camperwagon concept. Funnily enough, it never got made. [Thanks, Tim.]

Full steam ahead

Chris — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:10:21 +0000

Steam-powered VW Transporter. “It has great acceleration and is deadly quiet. I heard it has the engine from a Stanley Steamer and can do 120km/h!”

In rust we trust

Chris — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:09:49 +0000

Lateral thinking from designer Dominic Wilcox: anti-theft rust and scratch decals designed to make your new vehicle or bike look shabby.

Don’t slam the @#$%ing door!

Chris — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:08:52 +0000

Vulgar Winnebago salesman outtakes. [NSFW]

Wood Shop

Chris — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:45:21 +0000

America’s first luxury SUV is reborn. Leon Miller is the Grand Wagoneer guru.

Sorry, you can’t get one

Chris — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:24:48 +0000

The Jeep you can’t buy in the USA: the lustworthy J8 Heavy Duty. It’s a military-spec Wrangler with 400nm of turbodiesel power, plus a snorkel for fording 30 inches of water (or surviving a five-hour sandstorm).