Mazda Bongo Wide, 2nd gen: these have small diameter dual tires at rear, which makes for a completely flat bed. Little trivia: Kia used to make these back in the day as the Kia Bongo/Ceres.

Great solution for the electric car packaging: but I can see all these Volvos with ripped off trunk lids and such: if they were to use this battery paneling like the strut braces or under carriage where it's not as easy to vandalize, it would be even better!

Amazing how a paint job can make a Ferrari look like a Fiero.

Totally awesome! What a way to get creative while loafing in Japan!

I've been surrounded in a car by a football mob in USC on the way to the Natural History Museum, with my wife and then 2-year-old daughter! It was not fun. These people, when they're bundled with like-minded people with the same reason for being there, they can turn out to be some scary people. Just stay out of their…

Wow, great news! I love to see Subaru rocking, and is a great opportunity to keep on improving the 'niche' market models, such as 'WRX', 'BRZ', anything turbo, and dare I say, 'XV CrossTrek'(They really need turbo models for BRZ and XV CrossTrek). And one more request: if you can find it in your heart to produce a…

I was always a fan of the original Z's. When I was a 8-year-old kid in fukuoka, Japan, my neighbor had maroon 240Z and could not help stare at it for a long time.

+1, I'm secretly in love with the appearance/design of this XV CrossTrek, and wish they would stuff a turbo, lower it a little, in it and call it a WRX CrossTrek!

I will thankfully take half of this power(250hp) for a BZR. I mean, I drive a '06 WRX with like 235hp, and it rocks. BRZ's are lighter than a WRX, so yeah, that'd be plenty good for performance and fuel economy.

I know, I know, the FR-S/BZR isn't powerful enough, but man it should've been included here. I mean, it is one of the best performing cars money can buy under 30k, period!

yeah, there are only a few psychics on earth that can levitate, and the driver should've guessed that anyone that 'advanced' wouldn't be performing a levitation demonstration by a railroad track!

Oh, this was in Russia! Then that explains it? :)

I don't think there is much excuse for the BMW driver not have seen the platform was "rising" by the fact that there was that guy in white shirt still standing on the platform edge(Look at the video right before the impact: the platform is in the process of rising again with the guy on it). Unless the driver assumed…

+1 on the second exit lane. And it's the best kept secret for my commute from Culver City to Glendale.

Seeing that Land Rove is a transportation and an agricultural icon, it is not surprising to see a historical link between mankind's sexual infatuation with its transportation and agricultural devices, i.e. goats, horses, cows, lambs, camels, elephants, and donkeys. One of them even has an alternative name, after its…

I do believe the line between a sports car and a high-velocity car has been blurred, and the definition of a sports car may be more subjective today than when MG-B's and Spitfires were common. But if you think about the physical activity of 'sports' versus 'exercise', you will see that 'sports' is not just moving your…

Nice work, guys! I love this post!

Very good article, but I must say, as a person from Japan, it may be misleading to say that "Japan really, really appreciates the concepts and ideas they borrow from outside cultures," if taken out of context.

Don't always listen to a seasoned pro. I like your idea. Sometimes, someone with a flexible mind that is not tainted with years of 'boxed in' thinking can come up with a solution that no one asked to be solved. Just like the post-it notes, Ginsu knives, and the avocado scooper.

Can we sees the engine compartmento?