The Midnight Rider is the world’s largest and grandest limousine. In fact, she is a traveling luxury ground vehicle, cruising Southern California and Las Vegas with an 1,800 watt Sony surround sound system in each of her three lounges, large screen televisions, a full bar, two bartenders… and yes, a bathroom! Representative of the luxury… Continue reading Most Luxurious Limo

This piece of equipment is the biggest and most powerful piece of equipment used today to move anything. It moves the space shuttle to the launch platform and weighs in at over 8 Million pounds unloaded and just over 11 Million pounds with the shuttle on its back. It moves at a staggering speed of… Continue reading Mobile Launch Platform – World’s Biggest Mover

This is the Tata Nano, a 4 passenger car produced in India. It sells for around $2,000 NEW. It is considered the world’s cheapest new production vehicle. It is primarily made for city driving in India. Here are the specs: Tata Nano Manufacturer Tata Motors Parent company Tata Sons Also called The People’s Car Production… Continue reading World’s Cheapest Production Car

This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is shown here crossing a road in Germany on the way to its destination, an open air coal mine. Although at the mine the treads are unnecessary, it was cheaper to make the machine self-propelled… Continue reading World’s Largest Trencher

The UNIC mini Crawler crane is the first mini crawler available in Europe narrow enough to allow access through a standard doorframe, but with almost 3 tonnes of lifting power. It leads the way technically with an array of safety features including a computer-controlled, intelligent voice warning system. Other safety devices include: automatic boom speed… Continue reading World’s Smallest Mini Crawler Crane

The Burj Khalifa No great surprises here. The Burj Khalifa burst on to the international scene earlier this year with a massive fanfare, fireworks and festivities at the dawn of the new decade after a much anticipated build. The fanfare wasn’t without merit: the building smashing almost every record in the books – and by… Continue reading World’s Tallest Building

The world’s fastest limousine is now available to rent – a stretch Ferrari with a top speed of nearly 170mph. The 400bhp beast is made from a Ferrari 360 Modena which was chopped in half and stretched by 9.5ft with a section of hand-built carbon fibre. It is now 20ft long and seats eight people… Continue reading Fastest Limousine: Stretch Ferrari

This is what a team of engineers can do when challenged to push the limits of fuel efficiency and technology. You may have already heard of VW’s 1-liter car, but take a closer look. It’s a sports-economy concept car produced a few years ago by VW engineers, to answer one big question: could they build… Continue reading World’s Most Fuel Efficient Car

The D7E represents a mid-range dozer between Caterpillar’s popular D6 and D8 models, and commands a price premium of 20%, or $100,000, over a standard D7R. But that 20% can be recouped in as little as two years thanks to fuel savings of 10-30%. Plus, the electric-diesel drive system offers better power than its predecessor,… Continue reading Caterpillar Builds World’s First Hybrid Bulldozer

Hawker Beechcraft Corporation’s (HBC) flagship Hawker 4000 and leading Beechcraft Premier IA will be honored today for world speed record flights accomplished in each aircraft earlier this year. Today, in two separate ceremonies at the HBC static display at Orlando Executive Airport, National Aeronautics Association (NAA) officials will present the pilots of each aircraft with… Continue reading Hawker Beechcraft to Receive World Speed Record