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Suzuki S-Ride is like a motorbike, with jet fighter seat

Some say that the Suzuki S-Ride presents little confusion whether you should call it a car or a motorcycle. The Suzuki S-Ride has some special arrangement of its seat, which features seat that you’d find only in jet fighter.

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Acabion GTBO – world’s fastest road vehicle.

Acabion GTBO – a jet-fighter-shaped vehicle has claimed the title of world’s fastest road vehicle. Acabion GTBO can reach 300 mph within 30 seconds only and its top speed is 340 mph. This vehicle is considered as the fusion of a four wheeler. On each side of the rear wheel are two mini wheels. The creator of this two wheeler calls it a “road streamliner”.

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Car’s rear view mirror with LCD and recording unit

A rear view mirror for your car that comes with a built-in LCD and recording unit. It allows you to record the incidence if you happened to be involved in a car crash. So, you’ll have the full evidence to tell the police or insurance company that it wasn’t your fault, and you shall be entitled for the claim. The mirror equipped with few cameras that capture pretty good view around of you.

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ExhaustBurger – burger cooked by using heat produced by car’s exhaust pipe

We wanna save the world. We’ll have to find every single possibility to recycle energy or heat that is wasted into the air. Some reseachers have a cool idea of converting the heat that is wasted through the car’s exhaust pipe, into useful energy for cooking your burger while you’re on the road.

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Rinspeed’s Amphibian car: sQuba, runs on the land and dives into underwater

Secret agents like James Bond will always need better car that could let them run away from the enemies more effectively. An amphibian car that could travel on the land and dive into underwater would be a perfect car for them. Rinspeed has made an amphibian car, called sQuba car, which is the type of car that does not only run on the land but also dives into water when it’s needed.

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Navisurfer II: a complete PC to replace car stereo in your car’s dashboard

Maybe for some reasons that we don’t wanna leave our eyes and hands off the computer. Even though when you’re in the car, either as the driver or the passenger, you’d love to be connected with your computer. The Navisurfer II is a complete personal computer that can be installed in your car and it occupies a single DIN slot only in your car’s dashboard – the space that normally occupied by a car stereo.

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Trev – a three-wheeled and tiny green car meant for urban trips

Trev is a three-wheeled environmentally friendly car, a product out of several years of effort by the students at the University of South Australia. Trev is ideal as a commuter vehicle. It consumes only 1/5 of the energy required by a conventional car, which relies on electricity as the only power source. Trev weighs only 595 pounds, has two seats only and can drive up to 93 city miles without having to be recharged.

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Continuum: Space-age looking solar car, by University of Michigan

The space-age looking vehicle shown to you here is one of the greatest efforts by the Solar Car team of University of Michigan. It’s called Continuum, is on display at the Detroit Auto Show. The Continuum is a pretty expensive vehicle, which has couple of big names behind as the sponsors including General Motors, Ford, Michelin and Motorola.

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Toyota will offer first plug-in hybrid cars by 2010

To save the environment, more and more auto makers are moving into making hybrid-electric vehicles – the type of vehicles that can feed on bio oil and use batteries alternatively, which the main objective is to improve fuel efficiency. Now, Toyota, as the leader of green auto makers, has announced that it’d build its first plug-in hybrid car by 2010. The plug-in hybrid is different from the current hybrid models, which allows recharging of the batteries from any ordinary power outlet. Conventional hybrids are recharged by power generated by the wheels.

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Autonet Mobile makes your car a vibrant electronics hub

Autonet Mobile Inc., a company that is showing off some nice gadgets for cars at CES 2008, which let you stay more connected to the Internet, even when you’re in the car. The company offers a small box for car trunks that takes a cellular broadband signal and uses Wi-Fi to relay it to portable computers in the car, so you can browse the Internet or play games while you’re inside the car. Besides, while the car is parked near your home WiFi network, you can also transfer music or video clips onto the player in the car, so you’ll have fully loaded with nice tunes and clips for your next journey.

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