Archive for July, 2011

The attached video explains it all, so we’ll keep this simple. It seems Michael Bay directly cribbed scenes from his 2005 movie, The Island, for 2011′s Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which is gobbling up people’s disposable income this weekend. Extreme credit goes to the YouTube user who recognized Bay’s clever use of CGI and [...]

China has just opened up a new roadway that stretches for a distance of 26.4 miles. Not impressed? That’s 26.4 miles over water. It’s called the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, and stretches for a span longer than a marathon. The bridge took four years to build, opened on June 30 and was then recognized by Guinness [...]

Bowler is not a well-known automaker, and with good reason. Its vehicles, based on Land Rover mechanicals, aren’t street legal. They’re rally-raid off-road racing machines; Defenders with an attitude. But Bowler has big plans, ushered in by new ownership and management. The company was recently bought up by CPP – the same Coventry-based coachbuilder that [...]