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Come on guys. Be a little creative! Why not a Panda/Earthworm. Or how about a Platypus/Rabbit? Or a Unicorn/Whale? Wait, that would be a narwhal, right? Bah, I'm no good at math.

And I thought my Honda Civic's nearly 40 mpg was impressive. Twelve years in the making, the incredible VW XL1 is capable of driving 261 miles on a single gallon of gas. That's the equivalent of driving from New York City to Hershey, PA for around $4.

The Ford Evos is constantly connected to the cloud -- which means it can do anything from turn on your at-home coffee maker to adjust its performance based on your driving skills.

Flying cars are no longer the stuff of science fiction. However, the flying cars of the future might actually be environmentally-conscious as well.

If this thing had a vagina and a mini-fridge we’d be set for life. Part razor, part cellphone, this thing’s got everything you need, sans a shower, to keep you looking your slickest. Link [via]

Ford has unveiled its new take on automobile dashboards with what it’s calling the SmartGauge. The LCD gauge will debut in Fords 2010 line of hybrids, the Ford Fusion Hybrid and Mercury Milan Hybrid. The gauge uses an all-digital screen with lively animations to prompt drivers on good driving habits by displaying a heavily stylized greenery for good behavior. It’s ...

Until I see one on the road, I won’t believe it. Apparently Lamborghini has gone soft with its latest offering, the four door Estoque. This is the premier entourage vehicle or family car for a WASPy outing in the Hamptons. Under the hood you’ll find a turbocharged V8 engine or a V8 with a hybrid module and a turbo diesel ...

Nothing beats driving 60 miles for one hour only to end up stopping for an 8 hour charge as you run up the electric bill of some random stranger. Not even Chevy can deny the satisfaction of only having to stop at a gas station once a month, so it’s officially announced the Chevy Volt due out on the streets ...

A private product design firm in Glendale, Arizona is now offering a $200 set of construction plans that will allow anyone to build a plug-in hybrid that gets 225 miles per gallon. Dubbed the XR3, Robert Q. Riley Enterprises says the car has a 100-mile range can use different drive trains to make it either all electric or a diesel-based ...

Here’s another cool new design hybrid, using old technology as the basis. VinylDisc is a dual sided format with one side featuring three-minutes of vinyl goodness, with the other side featuring a standard 70 minute CD. Other than posing a great way to compare digital and analog technologies, VinylDisc is a stroke of genius on the face of two endangered ...