Craziest Custom Vehicles In The World
People do some crazy things to customize their cars.
From a Swarovski crystal-encrusted Mercedes to a frighteningly realistic insect-shaped motorobike, we found 26 custom sets of wheels that are turning heads around the world.
And yes, there is a flying car included.
This tricked out stretch Mini Cooper S has 6 passenger seats, 4 doors, 6 wheels and a Jacuzzi for relaxing on those long drives.
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Up to 7 tourists can share one of these bikes (dubbed the "Velovisit") to cruise around Paris. The 7 seats face each other so riders can chat, while one person must be responsible for holding the handlebars and braking.
REUTERS/Charles Platiau
This woman took her extreme unicycle for a ride through Shanghai.
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This 25-foot-long car shaped like a cricket bat was a huge hit in cricket-obsessed India.
REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder
A man rides a tiny bike at a summer motorcycle rally in southern Portugal.
REUTERS/Nacho Doce
Two test-drivers in Brooklyn try out the Project P.U.M.A. prototype, a two-wheeled vehicle being developed by General Motors and Segway for city-dwellers.
REUTERS/Emile Wamsteker-General Motors/Handout
This insane pool table car has 3 wheels and can travel at up to 28 miles per hour.
REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder
Two custom Mercedes-Benz SL600s, each wearing 300,000 Swarovski crystals, are displayed in Tokyo.
REUTERS/Toru Hanai
This Messerschmitt KR200 microcar, seen here in Havana, dates back to before the Cuban Revolution.
REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
This car in Vancouver is part of a collaborative urban transformation program and has a garden growing where its engine should be.
REUTERS/Andy Clark
A worker in Bangkok rides on a (frighteningly realistic) insect-themed motorcycle.
REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang
Workers at Ford's Chicago assembly plant help transport a life-size Ford Explorer made entirely of Legos.
REUTERS/Frank Polich
One lucky guy test-drives a high heel-shaped car in southern India.
REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder
A woman and her son ride their bubble-shaped electric tricycle around Beijing.
REUTERS/David Gray
Terrafugia Transition, a flying car, spreads its wings at the New York International Auto Show.
REUTERS/Allison Joyce
Two men drive a vintage Fiat 500 in Zug, Switzerland.
REUTERS/Arnd Weigmann
Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni rides his cleverest invention yet: a cardboard bicycle.
REUTERS/Baz Ratner
This car in Nigeria is seen covered with woven raffia palm cane.
REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
This 30-year-old worker from Xinjiang Uighur, an autonomous region of China, spent a year building his custom super-cycle.
REUTERS/China Daily
A biological analyst at the Seattle Sperm Bank rides the Sperm Bike, a custom bike that transports donor sperm to the bank in liquid nitrogen cooled vacuum containers.
REUTERS/Anthony Bolante
Test drivers from TUM CREATE try out the company's new VOI scooter in Singapore.
REUTERS/Edgar Su
A member of the Amphicar Club of Berlin drives his amphibious car down the Grand Canal in Venice.
REUTERS/Michele Crosera
Istvan Puskas, a Hungarian tractor driver, built this chopper made out of firewood over a 2 year period.
REUTERS/Laszlo Blaogh
Zhang Jinduo of the Shenyang, Liaoning province in China built this racing car entirely at home with the help of his son, a car mechanic.
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Wang Jian, a young Chinese farmer, used spare parts from a second-hand Nissan and a Santana to build this Batmobile-esque replica of a Lamborghini Reventon. It cost Wang about $9,450 to build and can go up to 160 miles per hour.
REUTERS/Xihao
Two men ride a motorcycle disguised as a stuffed lizard motorcycle at a carnival in Nigeria.
REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
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