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When you've got a genuine Russian tank engine lying around, how can you resist repurposing it? And really, tanks are so lumbering and oafish, and with the price of gas nowadays... something a little more sleek and maneuverable is obviously called for.

This giant motorcycle took the team of welders and mechanics at the Harzer Bike Schmiede in Zilly, Germany, almost a year to craft. It is 17'4" long, and 7'6" tall, and weighs four-and-a-half tons. 1.8 tons of that is the tank engine itself. The Guinness Book of World Records has just confirmed it is the heaviest motorcycle ever (though interestingly, there is no mention of the size dimensions breaking any records.) They are still hoping to obtain a special license to actually drive it on the road.

Creator Tilo Nieber has dubbed the machine "the Led Zeppelin." Apparently in Germany, Zep counts as "heavy metal" music.

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You might have come across many pimped up motorcycle so far, but here is a list of motorcycle that are gold plated and adorned with crystals that adds more to elegance, style and luxury. These motorcycle woefully may be for the affluent few, nevertheless join us to check out gold plated motorcycle that will you leave you spellbind.

#1. Mikael Lugnegard’s ‘Golden Motorcycle’

This Golden Motorcycle is to roll you around with power and luxury. Dubbed as Seraphim, this motorcycle from the Swedish designer, Mikael Lugnegar, has solid gold parts. Although the entire motorcycle is not covered in gold, yet it has golden spoke design and front forks, elegant body, saddle-shaped seat, the golden engine and gears.

#2. Gold-Plated Kawasaki Motorcycle

The attention-getter shown here is a 24K gold-plated Kawasaki ZX-636 which was created by Two Brothers Racing and presented to racer James “Bubba” Stewart at the Anaheim One Supercross. The bike isn’t meant to be a racing one, it’s more for fun.

#3. The Golden Jawa

This Golden motorcycle is dubbed ‘The Golden Jawa’ and is worth its weight in gold. Unveiled in New Plymouth in 2004, the gold-plated Jawa 500 speedway bike is the treasure of Ivan Mauger, New Zealand.

#4. Gold MV Agusta F4 - King Midas

The moment people saw wraps going off to this 24 carat gold plated bike, it did blind many at 2008 International Fair of Luxury. Though the F4 was originally created by famous motorcycle designer Massimo Tamburini, this blinged version was developed in collaboration with Aurum, a Venetian company that is leader in precious metal processing.

#5. Gold-plated custom chopper

Exhibited at an International Motocycle show in Seattle, this ornamented two- wheeler is more a piece of art than an actual vehicle. And if you are interested to know how much it costs, well, it has a whopping price tag of $5000,000.

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It may not look like it, but this weird-looking limousine is actually a Mercedes. Well, make that two Mercedes-Benze 300TD, and it can be yours for the modest price of $950,000.

That’s right folks, this ‘beautiful’ art-car, made of two welded Mercedez-Benz,containing parts from over 40 different cars is on sale for under $1 million. It’s even more unbelievable considering this limo has won the title of best art-car, at the Houston Art Car event, twice (2007 and 2009).

This alien-looking vehicle is the work of Antti Rahko, an art-car enthusiast who spent 10 years of his life welding two Cars into a 10-seaterlimousine, and decorated it with 86 lights and 36 mirrors. With that much visibility, you practically can’t crash this car.

I can understand Mr. Rahko worked hard on this art-car, but placing a $950,000 price tag on it seems just a bit ridiculous. Right now the bid on eBay is at $10,000, and he’ll probably need inflation to move a bit faster, if he wants to get the asking price in his lifetime.

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Everyone love these most expensive cars in the world 2010. Expensive cars is one of the most favorite men’s toy. It’s the richest men pride. In this recession era, still quite a lot of persons have enough money to buy these most expensive cars. These cars is very expensive because of their detailing in production, speed also features they have. So let’s take a look at those most expensive cars one by one begin with the 10th:

#10. SSC Ultimate Aero: $740,000

New model with 270 mph top speed, spiller made from carbon, a temperature sensor and tire pressure to optimize driving conditions.

SSC ultimate aero

#9. Leblanc Mirabeau: $765,000

Designed with 24 hours resilience test at Le mans. It can be driven on the road legally. Mirabeau is using 4.7-liter V8 engine, 700 hp, and can reach average speed of 230 mile / hours. Specially made to order, including for semi automatic transmission system version.

Leblanc Mirabeau

#8. Koenigsegg CCX: $1.1 Millions

This car used V8 engines and only 806 units produced. It only takes 3.2 seconds to reach 100 Kms / hour. Top speed can be reach easily is 245 mph. The car tire use rim carbon, with 6 speed, and ceramic brakes.

Koenigsegg CCX

#7. Koenigsegg CCXR : $1.3 Millions
Koenigsegg CCXR is another variant from Koenigsegg CCX that signed in environmentally friendly cars. This car use biofuels, need 3.1 seconds to reach 100km/hours, with top speed 250mph.

Koenigsegg CCXR

#6. Maybach Landaulet: $1.4 Millions

This car is most expensive cars brand from Germany. Landaulet is the most expensive saloon car. This car have 604 HP, with top speed 155 miles / h, and using 12 twin turbo engine.

Maybach Landaulet

#5. Lamborghini Reventón: $1.42 Millions

Not yet clear whether this old version of Reventon is still available. Only 20 units have made, This car created using black aluminum rim, like the newer version of roadster, the design is inspired by fighter aircraft.

Lamborghini Reventon

#4. Lamborghini Reventón Roadster: $1.56 Millions

The car design is inspired by Stealth aircraft display. This car using V12 650 HP Engine. Can reach top speed of 340kms/hours.The car is very Light in weight because the body is made using carbon fiber materials.

Lamborghini Reventon Roadster

#3. Pagani Zonda Cinque Roadster: $1.8 Millions

There are only 5 units available, and go on sale. Chassis made from carbon titanium. Powered by 678 HP Mercedes AMG V12, only 3.4 seconds to reach 100 kms/hours. Can reach 217 mph top speed. The body carbon and suspension is using titanium and magnesium.

Pagani Zonda Cinque Roadster

#2. Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport $2 Millions / $1.67 Millions for coupe version

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport use 1001 hp, 16-cylinder engine, and has been developed so there will be no draft inside, even when exploring the upper reaches of the car’s 217 mph top speed. Traits with 2.7 inch LCD mirror. This car is the world’s fastest roadster.

Bugatti Veyron 16 4 Grand Sport 57

#1. Koenigsegg Trevita: $2.21 Millions

Just three units to be produced. Koenigsegg Trevita is designed based on Koenigsegg CCXR and added with new shimmering diamond carbon fiber, named “Trevita” in Swedish means “three whites”.

Those three cars fully equipped with Koenigsegg Shimmering Diamond Weave bodywork, using double carbon wing, paddle-shift, inconell exhaust system, carbon ceramic brakes with ABS, hydraulic lifting system, infotainment system, tyre monitoring system, chrono instrument cluster and special airbags.The navigation system is also developed custom just for this model

For the Machine Koenigsegg placed the same 1018bhp engine. Special for this model, the exterior paint fully developed in Sweden, at Koenigsegg headquarters.

Koenigsegg Trevita

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A soviet Mil V-12 helicopter has been modified to make it become the world’s biggest helicopter as well as the world’s first flying hotel. The experience is of course 5 star ranging from private entertainment systems to gaming and tea gardens! The specifications for this helicopter will tell you how exactly big this chopper is. It is 135 feet long and 45 feet high. It has the ability to lift a maximum load of 105 thousand kilos off the ground and can reach a maximum speed of 255 km/hour (158 miles/hour). Big is an understatement, I should have used mammoth! The inaugural flight is to take place on the 26th of June and the price is not being disclosed. So will the rich Sheikh who ordered an Airbus A380 for personal use change his mind?

Each soundproofed room is equipped with a queen-sized bed, fine linens, a mini-bar, coffee machine, wireless internet access, and all the luxurious appointments you’d expect from a flying five star hotel. Room service is available one hour after liftoff and prior to landing.”

The Hotelicopter is due to fly maiden journey this summer(June 26th) with an undisclosed price…If you have interesting? There is three fly tour. Inaugural Summer Tour – 14 days (Friday, June 26th, 2009 – Friday, July 10th, 2009)California Tour – 14 days (Friday, July 17th, 2009 to Friday, July 24rd, 2009) Bay/Jamaica, European Tour – 16 days (Friday, July 31st, 2009 to Sunday, August 16th, 2009)

The Specifications

Dimensions Length: 42 m (137 ft)
Height: 28m (91 ft)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 105850 kg (232,870 lb)
Maximum speed: 255 km/h (137 kt) (158 miles/h)
Cruising speed: 237 km/h (127 kt) (147 miles/h)
Original Mi Range: 515 km (320 mi)
Our augmented Mi Range – 1,296 km (700 mi)

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Naming a car after one of the most dangerous creatures ever to roam the earth may seem a strange idea, but then the T-Rex is no normal motor – in fact, it’s a three-wheeled trike with a fearsome bite. Combining the engine and gearbox from a Kawasaki sports bike with a bespoke chassis has surely created one of the wackiest road vehicles you can buy... and we’ve driven it!

The inventors claim it offers all the thrills of motorcycling, but in a safer and ever so slightly more practical package. And once you clamber into the curved bucketseat, the T-Rex’s bike origins are clear to see. The Kawasaki’s instrument binnacle has been transfer­red straight across, while the gearlever gives you control over a six-speed seq­uential motorcycle transmission.

Although the conventional steering wheel and pedal set-up seem familiar, with a single chain-driven rear wheel – plus 190bhp in a vehicle that weighs only 430kg – there is nothing normal about the driving experience. On the move, the motorbike technology is far easier to use. To change gear, you simply lift off the throttle and pull the lever back to upshift. The clutch is required for downshifts, but on the wet roads of our test track, it was the throttle which needed the greatest care. In any gear up to fourth, even the slightest over-exuberance got the rear wheel spinning, and tailslides were all too easily created.

Quick movement with the steering is essential to correct the T-Rex, and to make fast progress you need the kind of skills required to control a sports bike or racing car. Our model had a 1,200cc engine (final versions will get a 1,400cc unit), and acceleration was awesome, even with the lesser motor. The brakes proved powerful, and despite lacking ABS, did not lock up too easily.

Crucially, the car is well engineered and built. It looks like nothing else on the road – in fact, short of a T-Rex itself walking down the high street, nothing will attract more stares from passers-by than this amazing trike.

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Some military equipment rises to the level of celebrity—and in Russia, tanks immediately spring to mind. At a military exposition held over the weekend at Zhukovsky, a town just outside of Moscow, some lesser-known vehicles from the current Russian arsenal were on display. These trucks, missile launchers, communications systems and engineering vehicles are the real backbone of any modern land force. Land battles are a priority here, thanks to Russia's impossibly long land borders. The country now upgrades Soviet designs and sells vehicles internationally for both financial and geopolitical gain. While the electronics and sensors are often a little outdated, it's easy to admire the brute strength and rugged design of Russian military vehicles. Here are some of our favorites from the Engineering Technologies Forum in Zhukovsky, about 25 miles outside of Moscow.

#1. IMR-3M Obstacle-Clearing Vehicle

A vehicle built for heavy engineering in tough environments, it's hard not to respect this road-clearing (or -creating) monster. The two-man crew inside the vehicle can breach tree entanglements, blaze an 8-mile trail in an hour and lift 2 tons with a telescoping arm that extends 10 yards. It's also prepared to survive a fight, with thick armor, masking smoke and a machine-gun turret. Best of all, it's mounted on the chassis of a T-90 main battle tank. It can also survive blasts from explosives—the plow can clear pressure and magnetic-fuse mines—making the vehicle an all-purpose brute.

#2. 9A52-4 Multiple Launch Rocket System

One hero of Russian history is the Katyusha, a wheeled vehicle from World War II that rained rockets on German troops and tanks. This modern version, a very lightweight rocket launcher mounted on a truck chassis, has a simple design but packs a wallop—the crew inside the cab fires 300-mm rockets with warheads that include incendiary, fuel-air explosive, cluster munitions or antitank mines. The one on display here features six reusable launch tubes, which can be reloaded by a separate vehicle, using a crane, within 8 minutes. While the four-axle truck it's mounted on is not ideal off-road driving, these systems are masters of the shoot-and-scoot; by the time counterbattery fires rain down, they have driven away. This air-transportable version of the popular Smerch rocket system was introduced in 2007 but still awaits an international customer. (The previous, heavier versions are used by India, Algeria, Kuwait and others.)

#3. Kasta 2E Radar

The Kasta is a great all-purpose radar system that can be used to track helicopters, cruise missiles and airplanes. Set this up for remote operation, and you've got a movable defense screen for virtually anything in the air or an air-traffic-control radar that can operate in any weather for up to 20 days. The radar here can cover about 90 miles, depending on the height of the antenna it is mounted on, and can be set up for action in 20 minutes. The Kasta is said to be resistant to enemy jamming. A newer version of this radar is a popular item on the international market and guards Iranian nuclear sites. The diesel engine fires up with a whine, and the old-school mechanical radar dishes spin, unlike newer electronic radar arrays.

#4. 1V13 Artillery Fire Command Vehicle

Even the most modern artillery shell or missile is useless without knowing where targets are located. This scrappy recon vehicle is made to operate, day or night, in the most miserable conditions possible to provide guidance to indirect fire coming from large and small formations, from the platoon to the battalion level. The 1V13s are studded with radios, laser rangefinders, navigation equipment and an aiming circle that provides the angle needed to correctly place a round. Once in position, the crew of six can set up to direct volleys of heavy fire within 15 minutes. The low profile and telescoping antenna are meant to protect the crew members as they sneak into position. The guys inside these things need to be close to the enemy to do their jobs—that takes bravery and good hardware, especially since they are favored targets of the enemies. Like almost all Russian military equipment, the vehicle was designed during the Soviet era and has been sold internationally and sporadically upgraded.

#5. 9A39 Launch/Reload Vehicle for the BUK M1-2

The BUK M1-2 Self-Propelled Launch System (called the SA-11 Gadfly by NATO) is tailor-made to spot and destroy aircraft and inbound cruise missiles. In this photo is an oft-forgotten part of the medium-range system—the reloader. The crane, bent in the front, hoists missiles onto nearby Gadflys. The system can't see for itself—it relies on other nearby vehicles carrying radar for targeting—but it can shoot and reload on its own. The missiles are radar guided and can reach Mach 3. These vehicles are sold all over the world, including in Pakistan, Egypt, North Korea, Syria, China and (arriving soon) Venezuela.

#6. MIK-MKS Mobile Communications System

It takes a half-hour for the 100-foot mast of this vehicle to reach its full height. But once it does, the MIK-MKS provides wireless broadband access for 200 users using the four antennas atop the mast. Micran, the company that makes the system in the Siberian city of Tomsk, can tailor it for a variety of other communications uses, but the main purpose of the system is for a single vehicle to connect a slew of dispersed units. It's designed to be hardened against jamming interference from enemies and rough conditions of Mother Nature, especially high winds.

#7. Pneumatic Dummies

Okay, these aren't vehicles, but they've fooled us before. These cheap decoys made by Rusbal, a balloon manufacturer near Moscow, are intended to fool satellites and aircraft by adopting the shape, color, thermal signature (by using heaters) and radar returns of things that would make a juicy target for an airstrike. At the arms show, the company chose to inflate an S-300 antiaircraft missile launcher, the system that Iran is so eager to set up to thwart an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities, if Russia will ever deliver them. Imagine they do so, with a crate of decoys thrown in. The company catalog includes aircraft, vehicles, hangars, radar arrays and forward operating bases. American military intelligence has been fooled by decoys before—notably by the Serbs, who protected their air force by setting up a fleet of faux targets. Nothing means tactical deception like launching a $600,000 cruise missile against a cheap balloon.

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Normal vehicles are not for everyone. Thankfully, people take what was once a normal creation and turn it into a one of a kind set of wheels. Here is a collection of the world’s most unique vehicles, guaranteed to cause maximum rubbernecking. Enjoy.

#1. Ford truck

Let's start off with this Ford truck, a very unusual passenger vehicle, as, unlike other colective means of transportation, it was not concieved to circulate a road or a landing board. For years, it was used to transport passengers from the airplane to the airport in Zürich, Switzerland. Nowadays, it is part of a collection at the Lucerne Museum of Transports.

#2. T-Rex tricycle

In spite of its futuristic look, and of looking like a concept car, the T-Rex has been in production for over ten years. It's actually a tricycle and a creation by Campagna Corporation, in Quebec, Canada. [Read More]

#3. Surface Orbiter

"New Yorker Rick Dobbertin built the amphibious Surface Orbiter out of a milk truck in order to cross the world via land and sea. It took him 4 years, $175,000 and 14,000 man hours to complete."

#4. Bigfoot: World's Biggest Monster Truck

Bigfoot 5 is the world's biggest and heaviest monster truck. It has a 1996 Ford F250 pickup body with a 460 cu inch V8 for power. Bigfoot 5 weighs 28,000 lbs and stands 15 feet 6 inches tall. The enormous tires are from an alaskan land train, a vehicle used by the US army in the 1950's.

#5. Mattrack Truck: the skiing car

This is a standard truck where the wheels have been replaced by mattrack belts. The company -Mattrack- can apparently do this to any kind of 4×4 vehicle – from ATVs to 20 ton trucks. The short belts allow the Mattrack Truck to drive almost anywhere unless the snow gets to deep. If the snow gets to deep, longer belts are required. The short belts also make Mattrack Truck able to cross small creavasses, while larger creavasses require longer belts.

#6. World's Longest Limousine

This fancy limousine is actually the longest limousine in the world. Total length is 100 feet (more than 30 meters). It has 26 tires, room for a lot of passengers, a heated Jacuzzi, sun deck, swimming pool, a few beds and… a helipad!

#7. Batmobiles

I don’t know if you have seen the movie ‘Batmobile begins’ or not but I am pretty sure that you must have heard of the Batmobile. The movie makers used 8 different models of the Batmobiles with four of them having the exceptionally swift speeds. The Batmobiles were power-driven by 340 horsepower GM 350 V8’s getting the vehicle to 0-60 in just 5.3 seconds with a theoretical top speed of 220 miles per hour. Read more about Batman's Motorcycle

#8. Tank Chair

Tank chair is a Custom off-road wheelchair that can go anywhere outdoors. Conquers Streams, Mud, Snow, Sand, and Gravel, allowing you to get back to nature, and can also climb up and down stairs.

#9. Mini XXL Stretch Limo

This six meter long Mini Cooper S limo called the Mini XXL has taken opulence to new heights with an integrated whirlpool into the rear section of the car. With a seating capacity for two, the Mini XXL boasts a retractable flat screen TV, a DVD player, CD and radio, air conditioning, full black leather and a telephone in the rear.

The fantasy cooper has been designed by a specialist coach builder in Los Angeles. How about having a bath on the ride? Sounds cool!

#10. The Camera Van

Harrod Blank had a dream in which he covered his car with cameras, then drove around town to take pictures of people on the streets. Two years later, with help of his friends, Harrod completed the Camera Van (complete with working cameras!)

#11. Jet Powered Beetle

This monster is powered by two engines (original up front, jet in back) and is perfectly street legal since you’re only using the gasoline powered engine in normal driving conditions. But if you’re feeling adventurous, fire up the jet engine – which spins up to 26,000 rpm/13,000 rpm idle

#12. High Heel Shoe Car

It would be safe to call it my dream machine. I’m not exactly sure if it’s a bike or a race-car (the drag-race variety) but certainly it is one cool set of wheels. The exterior is crafted to look like a sexy red pump that would make men melt. The interiors, done in all black, carry a hint of black suede or even velvet (not sure about this one either) on the seat cover.