Are you telling you made a time machine out of a DeLorean Bike? No, just a stainless steel branded DeLoran bike I’d love to get one, if it weren’t $5,500. If I was going to shell out $5,500 for a bike, I’d get one a Specialized Tarmac SL4 Pro Ui2 Mid-Compact or maybe a Cervelo R3.

The DeLorean, Back To The Future’s Time Machine, Is Now A Bike

Even with no longer having a Subie, the Impreza/WRX always will have a special place in my heart. Saw this article yesterday and thought it was intriguing.

If the WRX was to move to an electric turbocharger of sorts, does that make it more of a supercharger than a turbocharger?

Next Subaru WRX to Use Electric Turbocharger?

The now retired space shuttle orbiters are heading to their exhibits. Yesterday, Washington DC received its orbiter — the Discovery. CNN did a nice piece with viewers adding media to the story.

Amanda also said one of our friends living up in D.C. got an aerial view of the oribter hitching its ride to our nation’s capital on top of the NASA modified 747. I’ll post that to Keefer Madness once I get to see it.

Open Story: Shuttle Discovery’s final flight

We may not be getting flying cars anytime soon, but check out this infographic on automated vehicles that have all their wheels on the ground.

Driverless Cars

The House is moving a full transportation bill right now that would eliminate dedicated funding for public transportation and the tiny amount of funding that helps make dangerous streets and roads safer for children and others on foot or bike. It does not go far enough to fix our bridges and roads or provide people more options for getting around.

It’s time to kill the House’s transportation bill. Can you join me and send a message to your representative?

http://action.smartgrowthamerica.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9507

Here’s another private company’s concept for future manned and un-manned payloads, using an aircraft 2X larger than a 747 to get the rocket up to 30,000 feet. Then the rocket is dropped, wings deploy, and it’s launched into space. This concept would be in competition and in same class as the Delta 2 rockets.

Initially I was wondering why do this, meaning you have to fight the gravity after drop. But the real advantage of this system is being able to deploy the rocket from anywhere in the world to get to any orbit faster. Interesting concept by former NASA administrator, Mike Griffin and one of Microsoft founders, billionaire Paul Allen, among others.

While we’ve all had to get over NASA’s decommissioning of the aging shuttle fleet, there’s still plenty of spaceflight future — both from NASA, but also from several private firms as well.

Private Spaceflight Gets New Contender with Stratolaunch

Saw this on Uncrate yesterday, and glad to see that Toyota is finally getting back into sportier cars, instead of being the solely SUV and Camry market of the past decade or so. Seems the new coupe has recently officially launched in Japan.

I love part of Uncrate’s description:

Aside from its oddball name — Toyota apparently is neither happy with its former sports car moniker nor familiar with the American meaning of “86′d”

I also love that it’s got Subaru’s 2.0 liter Boxer engine under the hood.

Toyota GT-86

Edit: And here’s a link that popped up this morning on the Subaru counterpart: 2013 Subaru BRZ Breaks Cover: 2011 Tokyo Auto Show