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Electric Throwback: The Meguru Bamboo Trike
Found on Japan Trends, this is the brainchild of Kinki Knives Industry Corp. and the Yodogawa Group. Called the Meguru, it's a little electric trike with an iron body painted in a retro shade of lacquer.
That's appropriate, considering its target market: scenic, traditional towns and cities. It's like a little city runabout you'd see in an early Bond movie. It even has bamboo floors and those awesome fan doors.
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Oh, Russia…motorized Deltaplane Fills Up At Gas Station, Takes Off From Highway!
We've seen helicopters, tanks, cats, dogs, moose, jumbo jets and even meteorites falling from the sky and landing on Russia's vast road network, so forgive us if were not the least surprised to see a motorized deltaplane (wiki tells us that it...
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Rinspeed Shows “dock+go†Ev Extending Range Add-on Concept Ahead Of The Geneva Salon
Rinspeed is a Swiss-based automobile manufacturer and tuning designer with a very vivid imagination. Although it produces “normal†tuning products like the 600HP Porsche 911 Turbo, it is projects like the James Bond-like submersible Lotus...
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Rinspeed Gets Real With Its Bamboo Ev Study, Could Enter Production
Rinspeed, the Swiss design house that dares to be different, has released real-life photos and additional information on its 2011 Geneva Salon-bound BamBoo, a concept study for a pure-electric beach cart. The latest creation from Rinspeed was jointly...
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Google Street View Uses Pedal-powered Tricycles To Film Locations Inaccessible By Car
Google's famous street view mapping service that allows users to take a virtual walk on the roads of major cities is getting ready to extend its reach this summer with the launch of the Google Trike. In order to film areas of that are unreachable...
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Kumho Epoch: Eco-friendly Racing Concept
So there’s no misunderstanding, when we say Kumho we do actually mean the Korean tire manufacture. Well, the folks at Kumho seem to have found some time off from making tires to create an environmentally friendly Le Mans racing concept –...
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