Category Archives: Design

Behold: the Surefly form Ohio-based hybrid vehicle manufacturer Workhorse – a lightweight, carbon fibre, petrol+electric powered, 8-rotor personal helicopter capable of flying two passengers 1.2km high and at speeds up to 112km\h.

The rotor arms fold so you can park the thing in your driveway, taking up around the same space as an SUV.

Yours for around €168,000.

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Behold: the 2019 BMW i8 Roadster – a petrol-electric hybrid that tops out at a pedestrian 120km/h for a 53km range in e-Drive ‘clean’ mode.

With full greenhouse gas blasters engaged, the top speed rises to 155mph and the roadster will accelerate to 100km/h in 4.4 seconds.

Still, it’s awful pretty.

MORE: The New BMW i8 Coupe And Roadster Now Have Longer Range And 374 HP (Jalopnik)

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Behold the GMC Sierra 2500HD All Mountain concept vehicle – a tracked, snow-ready offroader based on GMC’s hefty 2500HD Denali Crew Cab with racks in the back for snowboards and LED lights in the wheel wells.

Brahs will be stoked.

MORE: 2018 GMC Sierra 2500HD All Mountain Concept Makes Commuting an Adventure (Automobilemag)

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Pleasing symmetries and patterns observed from above by photographer Mike Kelley, who hired a helicopter to fly him over LAX, the Southern California Logistics Airport,  Boeing Field/King County International Airport in Seattle and the Mojave and Victorville aero-boneyards.

How did he get permission to fly over LAX? Well, he’s had a special relationship with the airport since this photograph went viral in 2014.

Related: Don’t Know When I’ll Be Back Again

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