Odds and ends

These are the first official photos of the Gold Porsche, created by a small company in Germany. It's gilded out of 22 carat beaten gold at the hands of artists rather than factory workers. Rather than looking totally over the top, we're actually quite liking the gold finish, though its hard to tell...

From Germany’s city of gold, Pforzheim, comes the first ever gold Porsche. The creation of small company by the name of Visualis, the golden Porsche was gilded out of 22 carat beaten gold at the hands of artists rather than factory workers. The car of choice was a Boxster (since it's...

Spy photos are the hottest property in the auto news market. If you’re first to market with early pictures of next years hottest model, you can expect interest from all over the world. The spy photographers that take these photos often have to deal with 120ºF heat or -10ºF cold to get you...

Atari has picked the winner of a recent competition to design a car. The adjustable pod car designed by David Sichtermann's is to be included in the next version of the popular computer game series, Test Drive Unlimited. Most of the design buffs that entered were just regular gamers who have never...

Ford Australia is teaming up with its stable of racing car drivers to test the fuel advantages of its LPG Falcon. The 23-day trial to travel around Australia for around $1000 will take in all mainland states, covering more than 13,000 kilometres in a single fuel LPG Falcon. Ford Australia President...

Two brothers from a town east of Beijing have fulfilled their dream of building their very own personal Forumla One car. The car was constructed from scrap metal, but from the images, we think these guys have done a pretty good job. The idea was to build the first F1 car in China. The two brothers...

Police cars are usually pretty quick - they have to be to catch the crims. So it's no surprise that in Austria, the police make do with a Porsche 911 S as part of their crime fighting fleet. After the success of the Lamborghini Gallardo, which was used by the Italian police force as a deterrent...

Who would have thought a car developed for racing would be able to achieve a fuel efficiency of 131 miles per gallon? A slightly modified version of the Caterham Seven Roadsport, a lightweight sports car based on an original Lotus design, achieved this astonishing result at a recent Eco-car event...

Luxury hotel consortium, Luxury Resort Villas, based in Las Vegas has commissioned specialty automaker, DiMora Motorcar, to build 10 super-luxury sedans at a cost of $2 million a piece. The handcrafted automobiles are to feature a 1,200-horsepower "Volcano" V16 engine with production in Palm...

What’s worse than seeing a smashed 5-Series? The Murcielago that hit it. There seems to be no end to the number of wrecked exotics that are cropping up in the middle-east. All we can say is “that’s gotta hurt…” More images after the jump.

Mosler in conjunction with specialty wheel manufacturer Dymag, has created the first car to be produced with a factory set of high-performance carbon fibre wheels. The wheel is a nine-spoke design and comes in either 18 or 20 inch sizes to fit the Mosler MT900S. The centre hub remains magnesium...

It seems race cars these days have ever increasing computer wizardry to control functions that formerly the driver would have to manage. So it’s no surprise that we now have a race with no driver whatsoever. The defence agency DARPA has created an Annual Autonomous Robot Race up Pikes Peak, a...

A idiot very wealthy person has paid £331,000 for the UK number plate "M1" for his 6-year old son. The number plate was expected to fetch £80,000-120,000, but with fierce bidding in the marquee and on the phones a new world record price was achieved. The previous top price of £285,000 was paid...