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At the 78th Geneva International Motor Show, Morgan, a sports car manufacturer from Britain, took the covers off a new hydrogen vehicle which they claim to have no emissions. This vehicle, named the LIFECar, gets its power from a fuel cell.

With the company’s first sports car with two seats as the basis, the LIFECar is something to look at because of the design. That design has also been combined with a concept vehicle done by another company that makes vehicle designs that are aimed to be solutions to environmental issues.

According to Morgan, their LIFECar’s performance can be like that of a vehicle which uses 1.8 liters of petrol fuel for every hundred kilometers. The company has also disclosed that the vehicle clocks in 137 kilometers per hour as its top speed.

Light materials were used to create the vehicle and the list includes aluminum, leather, and wood.

Jessie Vigil has a 2007 Ford Mustang. With a little tinkering and a good paint job, Vigil’s Mustang now has become a police car. The vehicle now is painted with black and white paint. It also has the emergency bar in red and blue at the top. Painted on the vehicle’s doors is the word “POLICE”.

According to Vigil, he decided to make his 2007 Ford Mustang look like Barricade in the Transformers movie because his son was so much into the film.

Vigil checked with authorities if painting his car to look like a police vehicle was illegal. He was given discouraging answers however there is not anything written down that says that doing such was illegal. There is a law that says people should not have cars that look like police cars but the state police can sell old vehicles to citizens who can let the cars stay as is. That is a gray area so Vigil decided to go for it. He was warned though that he would be meeting trouble if he would impersonate a police officer.

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None of my friends could understand why I suddenly went beserk. A bunch of tourist kids from Ohio wandering the streets of Munich nearly 11 years ago, there was little to get excited about. We had just graduated high school and, for many of us, this was our graduation gift, to go see southern Germany and part of Austria and attempt to convince the locals that we really could speak Deutsch after four years of it in high school. I had a cheap disposable camera and handed it to one of my friends, who couldn’t for the life of her figure out why I’d want to waste a frame on me standing next to a big orange utility truck when we had so much architecture, so many castles, so much scenery left to possibly capture on film. “Take the picture anyway,” I told her. It appears I even confused the utility workers clustered around the back of the truck.

But to this day, the rest of that roll of film, filled with scenery, castles and architecture, sits at the bottom of a box in a closet in my spare bedroom, while this picture of me and a big orange utility Unimog remains pinned to my office wall. I even bought a model kit of a similar orange Unimog on that trip, which sits in my office not too far from the picture.

Which is why Dad now stops to grab pictures of Unimogs whenever he sees them.

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So my folks recently moved from their native Ohio down to western North Carolina, and ever since, Dad has gone on and on about all the older cars and trucks still plying the streets down there. He kinda likes to rub it in that he’s in a warmer climate than I am. Butthead. As it turns out, most of the old cars he sees are junkers from the 1970s and H-body GMs. But he recently came across a kickass Unimog rock buggy and grabbed some shots for me.

Aside from the two-tone primer touch-up paint and the outrageous track width, I’m digging that cantilevered rear shock setup and what appears to be a propane tank behind the toolbox. As for the inclusion into the March Military Campaign, I think the flange on the roof for the turret could qualify the ‘Mog as ex-military, but then again, I believe all round-headlamp ‘Mogs should qualify for the campaign.

I have no idea what this means. Maybe a custom fabrication shop? Maybe a rockcrawling club? Speed Freaks Rok Rodz to the white telephone, please.

Finally, Dad got a shot of the ‘Mog’s playmates. It takes a lot to make a Hummer look dinky.

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