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During a summer bike trip down the West coast of North America some years ago, we passed a broken down clown car and couldn’t help but offer assistance to the unfortunate performers in peril. In true clown transportation tradition, we managed to fit eight clowns on our bike in various precarious ways, which we’re pretty [...]

We’d love to ride around town stuntin’ on our blinged-out bike (we’ll refrain from using the term “pimped” because we find it offensive), but honestly, the more inconspicuous your bike can be, the better. It won’t get stolen, it won’t matter when you fall (as we did, very drunkenly, on Friday) and it gets banged [...]

As General Motors continues to repurpose and shape-shift in order to remain competitive, how creative are they really getting? Presumably they’ll still be manufacturing cars, instead of shifting to bikes, trains or some other more sustainable and long-lasting solution. We imagine they’re also sticking to mostly gas-powered vehicles, instead of actually doing something new like [...]

Every time there’s a major auto show in town or cool new future epic at the multiplex, we get a little carried away fantasizing about transportation for the future. Like those cool Lexus pods from Minority Report. Turns out that snappy concept cars and the like have existed since at least 1938, when the Buick [...]

Bicycles are totally 20th century, tricycles are at least two years old depending on who you ask, and now all the cool kids on the block are pulling wheelies on their quadracycles – a feat all the more impressive because it involves getting two front wheels off the ground rather than one. Get with the [...]

After we bragged to you about our flashy new solar boat a while back, we realized that what was the cutting edge of sustainable transportation some months back had swiftly become its dull butter knife. In that spirit, we’re plotting our next green machine purchase: a fuel-efficient aircraft. At first we were thinking about a [...]

The other day we bumped into a friend at a red light. He was driving a solar-powered car, and we were in our spiffy new solar boat. The interaction went like so:
Solar Car Boy: “Hey, nice solar boat, what kinda mileage do you get with that thing?”
Listicles: “Oh, you know, 20 nauts per sunrise.”
SCB: “Wow, [...]

As our collective dreams of financial frivolity are fueled over the weekend only to be dashed by Monday morning’s increasingly rude awakenings, so Listicles’ weekly financial column Big Money Mondays takes a closer look at our fantasies of luxury. In this first installment we look at the soon-to-be-extinct luxury car field. The dedicated car enthusiasts [...]