A self-described electromechanical hobbyist and MIT student named Charles Guan is the mastermind behind the Chibikart, a motorised Mario Kart-like vehicle built from scratch.
When I was a kid, on long road trips I had to look out the window and like it. When I worked in childcare, kids would go home with a Game Boy in their hands. My kids, of course, might ride with something even cooler: games on their car windows.
When you think of Japanese role-playing game Persona, you probably don’t think of this. Spotted at the Tokyo Auto Salon by sister site Gizmodo Japan, this is a customised Audi S5 ita-sha. It is covered in Persona 4 decals and has gullwing doors.
Cars aren’t just about the cars. They’re about the colourful characters that buy them, customise them, and drive them.
Yelawolf, an Alabama rapper signed to Eminem’s Shady Records, loves muscle cars. So he must be pretty excited to drive around a real life model of Driver San Francisco‘s yellow and black Dodge Challenger.
Who would want to buy Need for Speed-branded Mega Bloks construction sets? That’s the question I asked myself when I first heard the LEGO competitor had taken on EA’s racing game licence earlier this year. Now that the sets are hitting store shelves, I have an answer: me.