The newly ’spied’ Honda Insight boasts some outrageous gas mileage. With insider estimates at near 70 mpg it could be Honda’s magic Prius killer. At the every least it looks a hell of lot like one. Not really sure if that’s good or bad. I’m still baffled as to wear the Hybrid CRV is, but hey maybe it’s in the works too. Left Lane News has a slew of spy photos of the new Insight. Check em out.

Once you get beyond the cheesy beginning to this video, the car itself is pretty amazing, but why on earth would you make it a convertible. James Bond would be proud!

Ducati’s will soon begin delivery of it’s Superbike for 2008, the Desmosedici RR. With a limited production of only 1,500 bikes and price tag of over $72,000 you’ll need to be one of the elite (lucky) to get one. But if you do you’ll be able to hit speeds of 200 mph.

A number of ‘firsts’ for Ducati and production sport bike design have been introduced. The 848 and 1098 are the first to have a data acquisition system integrated as standard equipment and the first to use an ingenious construction method for its weight-saving single-sided swingarm.

More ‘firsts’ for a road-going Ducati include the direct application of MotoGP technology, like the power producing GP6-derived elliptical throttle bodies and the use of the information-rich instrumentation originally developed for the Desmosedici GP7. Furthermore, the 1098 is the first production motorcycle to have the amazing stopping power of Brembo Monobloc brakes.

Let’s just wait and see who’s the first guy to film himself doing over 200 on a freeway. Tom Cruise perhaps?

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Want the ultimate gadget? How about the FXX Evoluzione from Ferrari. And you can drive one for about 2.5 million. That’s right, you can drive it but not own it. Your 2.5 million just gets you some track time on Ferrari’s private race track.

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Were not talking about David Hasselhoff here, but the car, KITT. The only problem is that KITT is not a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, but (gasp) a Ford! That’s right, Knight Industries Two Thousand, is now a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR.

This video and a bunch others like it have the Arizona police all bent out of shape. It’s footage of a guy going 219 MPH in a Lamborghini Mucialago on an Arizona freeways. Some of the other videos show him doing well over 170 on back highways. It’s pretty insane and very real. Looks like it was shot in the middle of the night on some fairly unpopulated AZ freeways. Of course now the cops want to know who he is. Ah, hum, let’s see. There can’t be too many Lamborghini Mucialago’s registerd in AZ, so that’s an easy one. Oh, yeah and his name is all over the videos - you know, right in the title ‘Aaron Mayor’. Pretty sneaky.

It’s ok, if the cops don’t catch him it won’t take long for him to end up roadkill. He’s actually a damn good driver, but if you’ve ever seen the way the rest of the people drive in Arizona you’d understand.

And for AZ natives out there it’s a bit tough to spot exactly what stretch of freeway he hit 219 on, but looks like it might be a stretch of the 101 south in the east valley or maybe a stretch of the new 202 San Tan. Take a look and try reading the freeway signs at 200+ miles and hour.

The Ale car has three wheels, runs on fuel vapors and gets 92 mpg. It has an almost impossible compression ratio of 20:1 running a custom fuel vapor system. With 0-60 times of 5 seconds and a 1.7 g rating in the corners this isn’t your typical slug of a hybrid.While the Ale looks cool as hell from the outside it’s a bit of a frankenstein under the hood. It’s got a Honda engine with a CRX front suspension and rack and pinion streering from a Porche 911. The dashboard looks like something the Russians developed in the 1960’s and the front (and only seat) looks like it was salvage from a 15 year-old Prelude.The Ale runs on regular gasoline and meets all emission standards. Five more pictures of the Ale after the jump. Continue Reading