New Smart Fortwo glows with 'Midas Touch'!

Instead of getting a gold watch to match your designer vehicle, you can now go for a gold plated Car to set off your watch. There is no match for the extravagant gold Smart Fortwo that may hit the roads soon. Lately Brock Alloy Wheels has displayed its gold plated Benz Smart tuning-car during Tuning World Bodensee 2007. This customized car is no different then its plain-Jane version except for its Golden exterior. Smart Fortwo is a car that has been perfectly designed for your everyday life.

Offering maximum comfort, agility, safety, ecology and driving fun, this pioneering vehicle is one of the best with its exceptionally low CO2 emission figures. Ouchh......my eyes are hurting!

How to turn highway into wind farms

Clogged highways and frustratingly waiting while your gas needle plummets to empty usually doesn't conjure up thoughts of green, but it seems like these very roads could become the source of a lot more energy.Several recent student designs have proposed that major roadways be retrofitted with various forms of wind energy collection devices, ranging from overhead turbines that collect energy from quickly-moving cars below to barrier panels (pictured after the jump) that harness the wind from closely passing vehicles moving in opposite directions. Ideally, the wind energy could then be sent back out to the grid to power nearby communities, light-rail transportation systems, or even intelligent billboards.

Of course, most of these ideas are still in the research phase, and even if proven feasible, we can't imagine the up-front costs (or inconveniences of installing these things) to be minor, but we're sure that government subsidies should be able to to lend a helping hand.