Cars are just too commonplace these days, with so few things to set apart one style or model from the next. Here are some excellent examples of creative hacks, scientific mods and artistic makeovers that will make you marvel at once-conventional vehicle types from cars, bikes and trucks to planes, boats and submarines.
These seven record-smashing vehicles are the strongest, longest, biggest, narrowest, fastest, most fuel-efficient and most expensive in the world.
The SoundTank is an imposing sound system with a speaker-covered, faceted hydraulic lid capable of pushing out 4,000 watts.
When you get around, it's usually on two or four wheels. But the inventors of these crazy vehicles decided to go a different route by using one or three wheels.
Incredible design is not just about looking good (which this does) or working well (which this does), but weaving these solutions neatly together.
Portaging in the wild is one thing, but try walking your canoe or kayak down the street and you may smack some unsuspecting pedestrian in the head.
Strong as steel, half the weight and running on very little gas, the plastic Urbee 2 hybrid vehicle is manufactured with a near-automated 3D printing process.
Color-changing and glow-in-the-dark paint, mini windmill-powered lights, a lane that charges your car for you magnetically while you drive and more.
These clear canoes and transparent kayaks give water travelers a whole new perspective on the hidden underwater world beneath them.
Bikes are more than just a way to get around - there is a whole culture surrounding them. These futuristic ideas would take cyclists into the future in style.
There is nothing like hitting the open road. But don't pay for a hotel when you get there - take a trip in one of these amazing modern mobile homes instead.
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