Jet School Bus - World's Fastest School Bus

Jet School Bus - World's Fastest School Bus

An American school bus has been transformed into a 367mph flame-throwing dragster.
Its creator Paul Stender replaced the ordinary school bus engine with one from a powerful Phantom fighter jet.

The flame-painted bus was custom built by Stender and his team at Indy Boys Inc in Indianapolis, USA, but it won't be getting students to school in record time as it's only for show.
 Stender's creation, dubbed 'The School Time Jet-Powered School Bus' fires out 80 foot flames from the back creating massive clouds of smoke.

Stender, 43, said: 'I built the bus for two reasons. The first is to entertain people because, come on, it's a jet bus.

'The second, is to keep kids off drugs. Jets are hot, drugs are not.

'The entire vehicle was custom built by myself. There's no way the original bus could have withstood the speeds that I take it to.

'We do a lot of displays at schools and we are trying to show them there's more to life than sitting in front of computers.

'I've got two 10-month old Great Danes myself but they are like kids for me, but I don't think they'd enjoy going on the bus.

'We are based in Indianapolis we are right down the road from the famous Indy 500 track, but we have shown the bus in Canada and even South America.'

Stender, whose mechanical skills are entirely self taught, said he has a passion for making things go fast.  He said: 'I bought it just as an old school bus, but I have to say only about five percent are original parts.

'Actually a lot of it is hand-crafted and the types of metals used would be more at home on an aircraft. 'There's still some bus left on it, a little bit on the front. And of course the door handle and the door are all original.

'I grew up on a farm and to tell you the truth I always wanted to learn things myself and didn't like school much.

'I guess this is my revenge for all those days riding on the slow journey to school, now it goes at my kind of pace.'

But the jaw-dropping school bus isn't very fuel efficient as it uses up a whopping 150 gallons of fuel in just one quarter-mile run.

sQuba World’s First Underwater Car Concept

sQuba World’s First Underwater Car Concept

Three decades ago James Bond (then enacted by British star Roger Moore) wowed the world with a car that could ‘fly’ under water in the movie The Spy Who Loved Me. Only, it was animation and not an actual scene.

But Frank M Rinderknecht, the 52-year-old automobile visionary and boss of Swiss automaker Rinspeed, has turned a dream into reality with his ‘sQuba.’

 

sQuba is the world’s first real submersible car that can ‘move like a fish underwater’. It can dive up to 32.8 feet (10 mt) below the surface of the water and can move at a sedate 1.8 miles per hour.

The sQuba has an open cockpit for ‘safety reasons’ (so that people can get out easily anytime in case of an emergency). The occupants of the car have to breathe compressed air through built-in scuba masks.

 

sQuba is an electric car that uses rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and 3 electric motors for propulsion. It is a zero-emission car as documented by the rotating license plate in the rear. It produces no exhaust emissions.

The ‘sQuba’s’ filling station is the water reservoir.? It is no surprise that the vehicle features powerful yet energy-saving LED lighting technology.

The first car that could drive underwater was Quandt’s Amphibicar, built in 1968. Only 3,878 were produced but many are still being driven on roads.

Then Gibbs Technologies came up with Gibbs Aquada in 2004 which Virgin boss Richard Branson used to break the speed record for crossing the English Channel. However, the sQuba seems to be the most exciting of them all.

To drive on the roads, the sQuba ‘relies on a stainless coil-over suspension from KW automotive and large Pirelli tires mounted on custom-made forged light-weight wheels from AEZ with 17- and 18-inch diameters.’

Technical data

Measurements

Length —– 3’785 mm
Width —– 1”940 mm
Height —– 1’117 mm
Wheelbase —– 2?300 mm
Track front —– 1?470 mm
Track rear —– 1?520 mm
Ground clearance —– 130 mm
Empty weight —– approx. 920kg

Performances

Top speed —– > 120 km/h
Acceleration 0-80 km/h —– 7.1 sec
Water speed —– > 6 km/h
Under water speed —– > 3 km/h
Dive depth —– 10 m

Engines

Street —– Electric
Power output —– max. 54 kW at 4’500 /min
Torque —– 160 NM at 1’500 /min
Water – Stern propellers —– Electric
Power output —– 2 x 800 W
Diving – bow jet drives —– Electric
Power output —– 2 x 3.6 kW Rotinor
Batteries —– Lithium-Ionen
Voltage —– 6 x 48 Volt

Propulsion

Power train —– Rear wheel drive
Gearbox —– R – N – F
Suspension
Chassis —– Steel
Body panels —– Carbon Nano Tubes
Seating capacity —– 2
Front suspension —– Double wishbone
Rear suspension —– Double wishbone
Dampers/springs —– KW automotive
Steering —– Rack & pinion

Tyres

Front tyres —– Pirelli P Zero 205/40 R17
Front wheels —– AEZ 7.5 x 17″
Rear tyres —– Pirelli P Zero 225/40 R18
Rear wheels —– AEZ 8 x 18″
Miscellaneous
Air supply —– 1 x 15 liter + 1 x 18 liter ScubaPro
Laser scanner —– Ibeo
Lubricants —– Motorex

CULT Dodge Challenger SRT8 Concept

CULT Dodge Challenger SRT8 Concept

CULT Energy Drink is about to reveal this exceptionally tuned Dodge Challenger SRT8 at the upcoming SEMA Show next week in Las Vegas. Not a big fan of Dodge’s but this is one Challenger I’d drive. Do you see that supercharger coming out the hood! This black matted monster boasts an amazing masculine widebody kit to go along with the 6.1-liter V8 HEMI. Additionally, this mean looking muscle car spotlights the highly aggressive red front lights, CULT stickers, larger wheels and brakes, and of course the supercharger that almost reaches the sky. Full details about this Dodge Challenger will be available once the SEMA Show starts on November 2nd.

HRE Wheels On Oakley Design Ferrari 458 Italia Concept

HRE Wheels On Oakley Design Ferrari 458 Italia Concept

The rim and wheel manufacturers from HRE had a variety of exotic cars at the SEMA Show to showcase their wheels, one being the Oakley Design Ferrari 458 Italia. This car was first released over the summer, with an original production number of five cars all in white. Since then it has been extended to create seven of these automobiles, another white one, and this red one seen here. With the addition of the 20-inch HRE wheels the Ferrari 458 dropped eleven pounds from each corner of the car. Oakley Design then installed a new carbon fiber front lip to increase downforce at the front by more than fifty pounds. A silver rear spoiler delivers an additional 48 pounds of the force to the rear when it is traveling at 150 mph.

Performance improvements consist of a reflashed ECU to make the most of the Italian Ferrari engine, boosting the number to 632 horsepower. At the track the tuning was evident, with a 0 to 62 mph time of 3 seconds, and an overall top speed of 208 mph.

Anderson Germany Audi R8 Racing Edition

Anderson Germany Audi R8 Racing Edition

Here is the latest “Racing Edition” package for the Audi R8 V10 from the tuners at Anderson Germany. Starting off with a performance kit consisting of a new valve controlled sport exhaust system, racing cats, sports air filter, and new engine power management system, the Audi was able to drop the weight around 17 kg or 37 lbs. This results in numbers around 585 hp compared to the factory 525, and the top speed was increased by about 12 km/h or 7.5 mph. Exterior styling improvements came next with a new carbon front apron and rear spoiler, along with a carbon diffuser, carbon mirrors, and rear window bordering. Inside the Audi R8, the interior was re-trimmed around the door trims, radio frame, ashtray, gear shift frame, and steering wheel. Topping it off on all fours are the new lightweight alloy rims finished with a carbon fiber to complete the Racing Edition Audi from Anderson Germany.

14 Amazing and Outrageous Car Graphics

14 Amazing and Outrageous Car Graphics

Mazda Miata Super20 and MX-5 Cup Car Concept

Mazda Miata Super20 and MX-5 Cup Car Concept

Both the UK and Europe got 20th anniversary edition Mazda MX-5s earlier this year, and we now have our own version... in concept form. Speaking to the same color and materials designer who gave us the skinny on the hip and evil Mazda2s, we were told that the brief with this one was to make the Miata a little tougher without going too hardcore. A hard top goes in the place of the canvas roof and the form is draped in dark gray speckled with gold metallic. The orange accents in the darker stripes are tuned to that metallic hue, and they are matched by the orange roll cage and orange contrast stitching inside. Other notable details are the suede inserts on the interior, the first-gen door handles, the reworked grille area sans Mazda's smiley face and a badge-less nose.

Under the hood is a reflashed ECU controlling a supercharged Cosworth motor, an ACT clutch, Mazdaspeed coilovers and shock tower brace, and Racing Beat hollow anti-roll bars. StopTech and SpeedSource throw in braking hardware behind 16-inch Enkei wheels on fat rubber. As for the chances of us anything like it in real life, you've heard this one before: "There are discussions..." Spy it yourself in the gallery of high-res photos below.