The Times has a nice little round-up of electric bicycle options, from DIY aftermarket conversion kits for traditional pedal bikes for a few hundred to bikes like the $7k “Optibike” pictured above. Don’t expect a nuts-and-bolts breakdown of each type; the article serves best as an introduction to the wide variety there is the world [...]

I don’t like to talk about games I haven’t yet played on Dethroner, simply because I’d like to keep our videogame coverage limited to the cream of the crop. And I haven’t played the upcoming racing simulator Forza Motorsport 2 for Xbox 360 yet, because I’m no longer on that magical press list which causes [...]

Astonishing what the average mortal can accomplish when he has a sick dream and the wherewithal to realize it. (The videographer put it best when he asks if there is a history of mental illness in the driver’s family.)
It’s a bumpy, noisome ride, could use a nice fiberglass cover, and I doubt that, in [...]

In the grand scheme of things, it seems like just about everything except water is carcinogenic these days, and even with good ol’ H2O, the source must often be called into question. But the latest finding from the Ecology Center is a bit of a shocker: The intoxicating scent of a brand new automobile is [...]

Hard to hate this guy too much, considering he was just trying to make his $10k sports bike do something sporty, but I can’t help but hope he’s now doing public service announcements about the need to always wear a helmet.
(Photo: Unknown. Let us know if you know the source!)

I don’t know about anyone else, though I’d suspect that many chins are now, like mine, sopping wet with drool over the Carroll Shelby’s return to the pony car in 2008. The “Super Snake,” as it’s being called, will have a limited run, only 1000 will be built, which means that it’s time to [...]

I guess the boyhood fascination with destroying one’s toys never really goes away. It’s a completely pointless exercise, it’s wasteful, it proves nothing worthwhile…but damn I’d have loved to have seen this in person. I think they’re pussies for not putting a driver in the cars. What the hell are roll cages and helmets for, [...]

Now that it looks like the Subaru is firmly committed to making the Impreza WRX the ugliest sports car around, my inbuilt desire for an all-wheel-drive turbocharged sports sedan has swung back to Mitsubishi’s upcoming 2008 Lancer Evolution X (a.k.a. the “Evo”). This tenth-generation beauty is classy in all the ways the back-heavy WRX is [...]

These are obviously just mock-ups, so I’m not sure when—or if—you’ll be able to buy a “Keyport,” which stores individual keys in an attractive sliding case. The idea is solid, but has one obvious weakness (as pointed out by on the the NOTCOT commenters): many cars these days have a microchip embedded in the keyfob [...]

The apologetic tone in this Hot Rod piece is disappointing. There’s no need to apologize for having a wacked out paint job on your car!
I once went to a car audio “showdown” that happened to coincide with a low-rider show. The amount of talent that goes into some of those designs—even if it is a [...]