Imagine a car that would emit no harmful vapors and would offer incredible fuel mileage far beyond that of the most efficient cars ever built. It’d be sleek and silent, with only the hum of a turbine. It’d basically be run on steam. That’s how nuclear power works.

Yeah, nuclear power. The Ford Nucleon concept car was designed to be powered by a miniature nuclear reactor. Simple, safe, and eco-friendly, right?

A Naked Kawasaki Concours 14

HellForLeather has a great post about the new cafe racers: stripped down sportsbikes.

They hit the nail right on the head: function is form. The beauty of these bikes is their inner workings. I like their comment about leaving the stock exhaust on too: quest is the new loud.
Check out some of their pics after the jump.

It’s almost auto show season, and in celebration we’d like to take this time to honor one of the greatest accessories ever invented for the modern automobile: the Auto Show Girl. From Paris to Tokyo to Detroit, the girls of the auto show are undeniably hot and definitely deserve a salute for standing for hours at a time in 4 inch heels, smiling incessantly in the face of open-mouthed guys fumbling for their camera phones.

So here’s to you ladies [especially to the woman in the 4th picture down after the jump whom our sources indicate stumbled across this photo from an event she worked and was surprised to find that it had been filed by the event sponsor under "dumb blonde and red Ferrari". Although we have no idea who she is, we're almost positive she'd like to instruct whoever tagged the photo to "Suck it hard, jackass," -ahem- or something to that effect...].

And to you, RideLust readership, you’re welcome in advance.

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Hydrogen could be the fuel of the future, if someone can help bring the price down.

Hydrogen’s obtained by splitting water into it’s two parts, oxygen and hydrogen. Right now, the only method for doing the splitting involves platinum as a catalyst. Platinum is expensive, and that’s the main reason for the high cost of hydrogen as a fuel. But some researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have more cost-effective solution.

That’s it, the only available picture of the Aston Martin One-77. It’s like an alien spaceship landed in Nebraska and every automotive website out there is trying to decipher it’s intentions. Will you eat us or give us the secrets to space travel? What we know right now is that it has a carbon fiber chassis, a handcrafted aluminum body, and a 7.0 liter V12 engine. But other than that, nothing. We’ll know more come the 2008 Paris Motor Show in October, where the car is supposed to debut.

Judging from the name and the promo website, only 77 of these cars will be made, and it’s expected to carry a price tag of as much as $2 million. I’ll take ten.

In California, Bryan Curiel is currently facing life in prison after attempting to run over three women outside of a Newport Beach donut shop. Prior to the incident, Curiel had apparently offered his best moves to all three women, only to be politely rejected and respectfully asked to leave them alone. His advances spurned, Curiel then retreated to the parking lot where he purportedly waited for the women to reappear.

Rumors of a new Mercedes supercar called the SLC have been around for a while now, but just recently, Drive.com.au caught some spy shots of a prototype with is gullwing doors open.

The Concept BMW GINA

I’m not generally a fan of Chris Bangle, I think he’s too much of a new-age BS artist, but his concept for the BMW GINA is amazing. It has no metal outer skin, only a textile cloth-like covering that can shapeshift and re-configure itself into different forms. I love how it looks so organic and freaky. One hilarious point though…even on this car without skin (I don’t think it even has a trunk), it still has the Bangle Butt.

Either way, it’s still amazing, let’s hope they can develop a strong, waterproof covering and make it marketable. I want one of these.
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Ford is expected to phase out the Escape SUV within the next decade, and when they do, talk from the top suggests they might usher in a new Lincoln model to replace it. Ford’s product development chief, Derrick Kuzak, admitted Ford is seriously considering adding a C-segment vehicle to the Lincoln line-up, most likely basing if off the Ford Kuga XUV currently sold abroad. Kuzak also hinted that the European small car the Ford Ka might be included in the American invasion, a prospect we are notably less than enthusiastic about.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau has released reports suggesting the recent surge in fraudulent vehicle theft claims is directly related to the rising cost of fuel. Although no one has specifically linked the two trends, researchers are implying that a large number of truck and SUV owners are staging the theft and/or vandalism of their vehicles, ultimately using the insurance payout to buy smaller, more economical vehicles. Sound a little far-fetched? Keep reading.