Exotic Record Breakers – The 900 HP Weber Becomes World’s Fastest Car (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Here is the next vehicle that claims to be the world’s fastest street-legal sports car – the Weber Sportcars Faster One.

Reportedly, the car can go from 0 – 62 mph in 2.7 seconds, 0 – 124 mph in just 6.6 seconds, and has a top speed said to be over 248 mph! That’s fast.

For around $1.5 milli…

Luxury Safety Hazards – Porsche 9ff GT9 Built Just For Speed (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Porsche 9ff GT9 is a gorgeous car made with one purpose in mind: Speed… and nothing else. The 9ff GT9, which can reach a maximum speed of 255 mph, does not come with an air bag to protect you from violent collisions, there is no traction control to prevent you from losing control of the vehicl…

SuperMotorcycles – nUCLEUS: Zero Emissions, Ultra Fast (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) NonObject believes that a new breed of alternative fuel vehicles deserves a new level of experience. They pondered, “Why do motorcycles mimic each other’s DNA or mirror ferocious animals from the wild?” They wanted a unique motorcycle design that is off the beaten path.

Their concept, currently in …

Homemade Fuel – EFuel 100 MicroFueler (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) With the never ending increase in gas prices, people have started to think about fuel alternatives. E-Fuel Corporation, a company in California, has introduced the EFuel 100 MicroFueler, a device that weighs about 200 pounds, that uses 110 or 220 volt power supply and a wastewater drain that is jus…

Reclaimed Wood Vehicles – Diederick Kraaijeveld’s Wood Cars (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Diederick Kraaijeveld is a self-taught artist who makes cars out of salvaged wood. Kraaijeveld’s cars measure approximately 50 inches and are made of wood he finds during traveling throughout Holland and abroad.

Kraaijeveld does not use any paint as every piece of his vehicles is made out of genui…

Cars of 2045 – The Vortex Concept (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As you may have guessed, the Vortex is a concept car. The idea was to create a small vehicle that can provide the security of a big car. The external structure of this vehicle is composed of hexagonal polyforms (Wikipedia says “a polyform is a plane figure constructed by joining together identical b…

Amphibious Pod Vehicles – Cerva MC08

(TrendHunter.com) The Cerva MC08 is an oval-shaped concept transport vehicle designed to be used as a car, a motorcycle, a jet plane and a submarine. It was designed by a very creative team consisting of designers Michal Cerva, Jiri Bicik, Jana Kunstova, Marketa Schindlerova, and Jan Zof,

As stated, this ambitious …

Greener Luxury Cars – Bentley Continental DC Electric Car (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The diminutive, soap-box Bentley Continental DC is a battery-powered electric car. The vehicle, with a carbon fiber body, was built by 10 young apprentices at Bentley Motors. The small throw-back race car proves Bentley is serious about their commitment to go green. The Continental will raise their …

Movie Car Ownership – Real Batmobile on eBay (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve used to term “Batmobile” loosely in the past, using it to describe futuristic carts that remind us of Batman’s supercar, but this beauty is actually an original from the 1980 movie, and it’s on eBay for a staggering $500,000.

It’s the actual car used on the set of the Batman flick featuring …

Banana-Shaped Vehicles- N6 Matteo Gentile (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The N6 designed by Matteo Gentile is a banana-shaped personal vehicle which can, as one can assume from the images, carry just one person. The wheels are made of tubeless tires supported by a steel frame. The vehicle is low-slung making getting on and off easy, without having to make the effort to j…

Super Skinny Eco Cars – Space Efficient Vehicles

(TrendHunter.com) When it comes to damaging the environment, vehicle length is not the issue. Width is. Streamlined, lightweight vehicles like the so-called Space Efficient Vehicle (SEV) that you see presented here, will dramatically reduce fuel consumption and emission levels.

Most governments expect a further inc…

Personal Jets Near Mainstream – Cirrus’ The-Jet (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Next time you take the family for a zoom in the sky (wouldn’t it be nice to do that every weekend?), leave your old Cesna in the hangar, and get them on board The-Jet by Cirrus.

Crafted from alloy and composite materials, this jet accommodates seven people. It has a special two-door facility simil…

3 Wheel SuperCars – Volkswagen GX3 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The new Volkswagen GX3 concept, which was designed in California, achieves a 10hp/lb power to weight ratio by attaching a 125 hp 113 ft-lbs and a 1.6 liter engine along with 1200 pound frame. The super-sleek 3-wheeled vehicle was designed for two and takes 5.7 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 62 mph.…

Strap-On Choppers – Personal Libelula Rocket Helicopter (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Libelula Rocket Helicopter is a type of a strap-on chopper that was conceived by Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana. The concept contraction uses tiny rocket motors at the tips of the rotor blades which are powered by two hydrogen fuel canisters, thereby negating the need for a tail rotor.

It’s a…

Liquid Cooled Clothes – The Cool Shirt

(TrendHunter.com) At first glance, I thought this shirt was designed to be a hydration system for racers. I was only half right. It’s meant for racers, but not the running kind. The Cool Shirt is supposed to cool down a very hot driver. It connects to an ice-water cooler and circulates the freezing water through its …

Marketing with Stereotypes – Lamborghini: Feel Italian Wherever You Are (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Every country has its stereotypes, and Italy is no exception. This Lamborghini ad campaign, titled Feel Italian Wherever You Are, is a great example of how cultural typecasts can be used as an advantage in marketing a brand.

The images show three different views from the windows of a Lamborghini, …

Baby Luxury Car Logos – Italian Minichamps Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These baby car logos and emblems are too darn cute! The Minichamps campaign features the opulent Italian brands Jaguar, Lamborghini, Ferrari and Maserati in their imagined infant stages.

The adorable ads were created by Dentsu Brazil for Minichamps, a company that makes miniature Italian luxury car…

Luxury Supercars – Spada Codatroncadue Coming Soon (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Let me start by asserting that this is not a concept! 20 individual, beautiful Spada Codatroncadue are to be built in the near future. The price tag? More than £200,000 a vehicle.

Armoured Supercars – The Very Funny Vehicle (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Very Funny Vehicle, better known as the VFV, is actually not that funny; on the contrary, it packs some pretty serious features. With a physical aesthetic that could kill the rest of the world’s supercars, the VFV really does leave me wondering why the designers gave it such an au contraire name…

Retro SuperCar Revivals – BMW M1 Homage (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) BMW unveiled the M1 Homage, the luxury auto maker’s sleek new super car at the Concorso d’Eleganza at the Hotel Villa d’Este this past weekend. The unveiling of the Homage was to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the M1 super car model which was discontinued in 1981.