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At last after seven years of hard work world’s first and only solar powered airplane Solar Impulse made its first real flight on April 7 2010. Solar Impulse, a prototype of an airplane designed to fly around the world using only solar power. On Swiss countryside this aircraft powered by 12,000 solar cells flew for 87 minutes to an altitude of nearly 4,000 feet.

Solar Impulse program founder Bertrand Piccard called the inaugural flight a crucial step toward fulfilling his goal of circumnavigating the globe in such an unusual aircraft. In a statement from the Solar Impulse team, Piccard said he was relieved to have the first flight completed after seven years of hard work.

”This first flight was for me a very intense moment,” test pilot Markus Scherdel said after emerging from the solar airplane’s podlike cockpit. During the flight, HB-SIA lifted off at just under 30 mph and a relatively short takeoff run. The four 10-horsepower electric motors are expected to deliver enough power for a cruise speed of around 40 to 45 mph. No, Solar Impulse won’t set any speed records.

The wingspan of HB-SIA is 208 feet, that’s about 10 feet more than Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. But the airplane only weighs 3,500 pounds loaded for flight, about 499,000 pounds less than the 787. After more flight testing with the sun powering HB-SIA, the Solar Impulse team hopes to perform night testing later this year. During those flights, the team will examine the viability of the schedule they plan to use for the around-the-world flight. The plan is to climb to higher altitudes during the day, and trade that altitude for airspeed, supplemented with battery power, to continue flying during the night. They expect to fly 36-hour shifts.

“We still have a long way to go until the night flights and an even longer way before flying round the world, but today, thanks to the extraordinary work of an entire team, an essential step towards achieving our vision has been taken,” Piccard said in the statement from the team. The around-the-world flight is scheduled to take place in 2012 with an updated version of HB-SIA. The flight will take place in several stages with pilots alternating regularly and a team on the ground keeping a careful eye on weather for the delicate aircraft.

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I have seen bike mods, and I have seen car mods. But I have never seen a bike-car-combo mod. We really don’t know what need inspired the maker of this stretch Harley-Davidson Limousine to create this 8-setaer monster, but we really would love to see this baby cruising down the road someday. The designated driver will sure need arms of steel to be able to keep this sucker on the road. I have a really bad feeling I’m gonna see it featured on Ripley’s Believe it or Not or Guinness World Records very, very soon.

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#1. Desert Storm In Iraq

1991 Jan Amerian troops attacked Iraq and people around the world saw the Hmmwv（High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle) by Hummer the first time. Cars don’t like war, but people like oil.

#2. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s car

When Schwarzenegger was one of the first owner of Hummer H1 in his Holleywood times. The tough and cool image of Schwarzenegger enhance Hummer’s communication. After that Mr.Schwarzenegger bought several units more for his governor election campaign.

#3. Hummer H2

According to US tax law, owner of a tool-car above 6,000 pounds does not need to pay any tax. H1 was too expensive for normal people in Amerian and if a pickup with some luxury specifications called Hummer H2. People will buy it, after all it can save money.

#4. Hummer ambulance

The Car of War can also serve peace purpose. In 2005 some volumteers work together US red cross and build a Hummer ambulance fleet.

#5. Hummer in Tranformer

No more words about this.

#6. A wedding car in Chengdu China

Hundreds of people were around the wedding car modified by a Hummer this May in Chengdu, a west provincial capital of China. Maybe local people don’t know what does this brand mean but one of them bought Hummer Company five months later.

#7. Solo dude with spiky hair

As this decade wore on, people started to take a look around and see a few problems with Hummers. Like why, more often than not, is a three-ton vehicle being driven one-handed by a solo dude with spiky hair, a hockey jersey and a cell phone stuck to his ear? Even more sinister, some people felt the Hummer was a symbol for wretched excess and conspicuous consumption.

#8. Hammer is worse for the environment

Speaking of backlash, a certain segment of society had it in for the Toyota Prius. So frothy and out of control was their animosity that they decided to claim that a Prius is actually worse for the environment than a Hummer H2. As it turned out, little could be farther from the truth

#9. Hummer branded products

Oh yes, Hummer branded products. Hey, it works for Ferrari, Lamborghini, Jeep and Porsche... why not? Well, Hummer Cologne might be one reason

#10. Sale of fire arms

If you can't beat 'em, shoot 'em. Or something like that. The actual story is that struggling Hummer dealers were desperate to sell anything, since people just aren't buying giant SUVs that get single digit MPGs during the worst recession since the Hooverville. Enter Lynch Hummer in Missouri, which combined the sale of fire arms with Hummers. A match made in Hell

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For more than five decades, science fiction has been tormenting us with hallucination of in-the-air roadways and hastily choreographing sports car-like flying cars. A number of businesses have been hunting the reverie for such a long time.

NASA’s PAV (Personal Air Vehicle) Challenge could do a great job to chase the wild dream. To kindle rapid modernism and advancement in PAV performance, NASA has funded $2,000,000 in cash prizes for the PAV flight competition.

Here is a list of some of the flying cars, including some vehicles that have taken a voyage in the air while some are waiting to do the same in the near future.

#1. Mad Ludwig’s flying car

Unfortunately, this ingenious man King Ludwig II of Bavaria was declared insane 10 June, 1886 and was deposed. And now, after around 120 years after his death, scientists are saying that he was a one of the pioneers of flight. Now, aeronautical specialists have found hiss drawings of the flying peacock car out and re-established them on computer.

#2. Aerocar International’s Aerocar

Dubbed the Taylor Aerocar, the American roadable aircraft was built in 1949 by Moulton Taylor. The Aerocar III, which was the final model built by Taylor was colored red had had silver wings.

#3. PAL-V: Personal Air and Land Vehicle

PAL-V Europe BV aims to build everybody’s dream in mobility, a full-fledged flying and full-fledged driving vehicle. Excerpt from the company’s page:

Steer it like a car and it banks like a motorcycle. It sounds deceivingly simple. And it truly is. At the heart of the PAL-V lies the Dynamic Vehicle Control (DVC™) system which automatically adjusts the tilt angle of the cockpit to the speed and acceleration of the vehicle enabling a plane-like ’tilting before cornering’.

#4. Moller M200X flying car

The M200X was invented by Moller back in the year 1989, which has now been taken to the air 200 times and can go as high as 50 feet.

#5. Skycar M400: Moller’s latest design

The dream flying machine is one of its kind personal vertical take off and landing (VTOL) vehicle that can cruise at a maximum speed of 375 MPH at 13,200 ft.

The asking price of a Skycar is estimated to be about $1 million, but we can hope it to get as low as $60,000 when it will be mass produced.

#6. Macro SkyRider X2R

How about going 200 miles in a mere 45 minutes? The enthralling new aero car SkyRider X2R developed by Macro industries can do the same.

The unique vehicle is said to be available in five years after receiving investment funding. They say that it could cost somewhere between $500,000 and $1 million per unit.

#7. Urban X-Hawk: The Revolutionary, Modular, VTOL Aircraft

From the company: X-Hawk is a ‘rotorless’ Vertical-Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft. To be more precise, it is an aircraft that has the VTOL capability of a helicopter.

X-Hawk, in its air ambulance configuration offers a revolutionary capacity for emergency rescue teams to reach their destination quickly, in spite of practical obstacles or complex landscapes.

#8. Terrafugia Transition

The Terrafugia’s road-able aircraft Transition, priced supposedly at $148,000, comes with foldable wings and can fly and drive on road with perfection. It is expected to be ready for production by 2009 with a working prototype available in 2008.

#9. LaBiche Aerospace FSC-1TM

The LaBiche Aerospace FSC-1TM is a real treat for those who want to soar high in the sky with its sleek folding design and hair-raising speeds. The wings and rear propeller automatically vanish inside the car while you are busy setting the street on fire. The LaBiche flies at a mind-blowing speed of 275 mph. All do-it-yourself freaks would love to grab the build-it-yourself kit that costs $175,000.

#10. MIT student’s roadable aircraft

Carl Dietrich, a MIT aeronautical-engineering student shows a new spin on the concept of flying cars and has christened his tempting vehicle ‘roadable aircraft.’ He hopes to make this concept meet realism by 2010 and the price tag attached to it will be about $150,000.

It really looks quite exhilarating. You could be flying over the traffic jams at a swift speed within a few years from now. But, such flying cars will be the cup of tea for uber-rich only.

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Golf carts are fun, but they just look so puny. Instead of riding around in some incredibly slow and fragile looking golf cart, you need this Batman inspired golf cart. Sure, it’s not going to be able to do nearly as many tricks as the tumbler in the Batman movies, but at least you’ll get to look cool while cruising around at the high speed of 15 miles an hour.

This just happens to have been created by a Warner Bros. employee who works in LA. Hopefully his creation will soon be a part of the tour of the studio, at least it should be added. There is no current tutorial or any hint on how this was made. This is just a picture that someone captured while on the studio grounds, so there really isn’t much information at all to go with it.

We’ve also gotten our hands on this exclusive photo of the Bat-golf-prototype:

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For those times when you need to get somewhere really fast or to arrive in style, these super taxis are perfect.

#1. Crown Victoria Taxi: This car from the Rides journal has been made to look out as a high-riser with spinners to celebrate the Crown Victoria, the most common model of taxi cars.

#2. Bentley Taxi: Travel in Style.

#3. Porsche Cayenne Taxi: Porsche Cayenne taxi seen in Moscow, Russia.

#4. Porsche Taxi: For the times when you are late to catch the plane.

#5. Ferrari 575M Taxi: This two-seat, two-door, grand tourer built by Ferrari was seen in Kerala, India. If you need to get across the town really fast then this is for you, its can go 0 to 62 mph in 4.2 seconds.

#6. Maybach Taxi: This cool luxury Maybach taxi was seen in Moscow, Russia.

#7. Hummer Taxi: This yellow Hummer taxi was seen in Houston, Texas.

#8. Chevrolet Corvette Taxi: As a matter of fact this Corvette Z06 isn't a taxicab at all, though it would have been great if it was. This was created for participating in the 10th Annual Gumball 3000 Rally. Gumball 3000 participants are known for redoing exterior graphics on some of the world's top super cars.

#9. Lotus Taxi:

#10. Lamborghini Taxi: If you need to get across the town really fast, then this is for you; a Lamborghini Murcielago with a 6.5-liter engine, 633 bhp so you can go from 0 to 60 mph in 3.4 seconds. This yellow Lamborghini Murcielago taxi was seen in front of Fairmont Palliser Hotel in Calgary, Canada.

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You must take a look at this awesome smart car or tank design, but they called it smart tank. This smart tank is combination between a car with tank wheels. From it design we understand that this vehicle can runs on almost any terrain and can be drive in extreme environment.

Unfortunately, I do not have the detail information about this vehicle, do they want to produce as a future personal transportation car or they want to used it on battle field. But I hope they will use it in peace mission.

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We all love Lamborghini, Don’t we? Its the unique Angular body of Lamborghini that makes it stand out of the line in all super cars. The unique aerodynamic shape of Lamborghini cars makes then not only a head turner, but the shape also makes them one of the most fastest cars on this planet. The company has been continuously releasing new concept model pictures over the last few years.

Compiled below is a list of the most amazing concept Lamborghini cars you will ever see. Some of them may even hit the roads of reality in coming future but most of them are just idealized for the imaginary world.

#10. Lamborghini Ankonian Concept

Lamborghini Ankonian Concept is being designed by Slavche Tanevsky which is basically more aggressive version of the famous Lamborghini Reventon.

#9. Lamborghini Reventon Roadster

Is a beautiful concept turned into a real car. Reventón Roadster costs around $1.6 million dollars and only 20 cars will be made.

#8. Lamborghini Embolado Concept

Designed by a talented Italian design student Luca Serafini, the name of the concept derives from a Spanish festival called “Embolado Bull”.

#7. Lamborghini Furia Concept

Inspired by the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4, designer Amadou Ndiaye has come up with a new version, the Furia, which is designed with more dramatic and aggressive lines.

#8. Lamborghini Ratun Concept

Beautiful Lamborghini concept car designed by Niels Steinhoff is an aggressively styled concept for a flagship supercar designed to compete against the Bugatti Veyron.

#5. Lamborghini Cachazo Concept

Designer Marouane Bembli thinks this car could be a suitable replacement for the Lamborghini Gallardo. The concept car has been created with Lamborghini’s design language in mind, albeit with some alterations that would give the concept its own place to stand.

#4. Lamborghini Timador Concept

Lamborghini Timador design by Johannes Brandsch was to create a lighter supercar through the use of overlapping shells the biggest one of which forms the shoulders of the car separating the air inlets from the passenger compartment story.

#3. Lamborghini Madura Concept

Designed by Slavche Tanevsky, this concept was created in collaboration with Lamborghini’s and Audi’s designers, and is a proposal for the first hybrid Lamborghini that is scheduled for a 2016 launch.

#2. Lamborghini Insecta Concept

The design of this Lamborghini concept combines the brand’s styling cues with elements inspired by insect exoskeletons.

#1. Lamborghini X Concept

Emil Baddad, an extremely talented artist from Iran, was not very satisfied with the design of Lamborghini Reventon, so he decided to make a new design for it.