Archive for the ‘Videos’ Category

Monday means two things in our book: (1) heading back to the office and (2) finding ways to waste time once we get there. In service of item #2, we present this video of a man driving half a car, which is not only idiotic, dangerous, and thoroughly awesome, but it's also a little tricky to engineer. Apparently, the mechanics in Serbia are a visionary bunch.

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We've mentioned the FastSkinz applique a couple of times on TCC. It's a wrap for cars that's dimpled like a golf ball, and the manufacturer says it boosts fuel efficiency by 18% to 20%. According to what we've read, those claims are wildly inaccurate, but that didn't deter the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters team from running a similar experiment using a Ford Taurus, some modeling clay, and 1082 dimples. Their results? Mildly surprising. The whole episode is embedded below, but you can jump to the 40 minute mark if you're short on time.

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The 2009 Tokyo Motor Show kicks off today, and even though the event will be much smaller than it's been in recent years, there's already some fun stuff on view. Take, for example, the Honda EV-N concept, a retro minicar with some very distinct styling features, as shown in the weirdly silent video clip below. (Our favorite feature? The Space Invaders-themed grill. Well, that's what it looks like, anyway.)

Although this is an EV, and Honda said just yesterday that it may consider producing an EV minicar in the near future, the company insists that the EV-N is purely concept that's not intended for showrooms. Then again, Honda's gone back on...