This is a little gallery of the Turtle Van (aka Party Van) in real life . It was spotted at the Chicago Auto Show and comes from the Volo Auto Museum Chicago. It was built using a highly customized VW bus and it’s amazing they could do such a great job on the van and suck so bad at making a ninja turtle. Seriously, Raphael there doesn’t even look fit to fight my salmonella poisoning. WELL OF COURSE I LICKED HIM. Hit the jump for a full gallery of Michelangelo’s weed-den on wheels.

Because when you know you’re going down you might as well do it in a big pile of flaming pink shit, Dodge has decided to make ‘Furious Fuscia’ Challengers and market them to men . Chrysler Group is trying to better define its various brands and products as it attempts to claw back lost market share following years of slumping sales and financial cutbacks that ultimately ended in bankruptcy. Photographs don’t really do justice to Furious Fuchsia, Chrysler spokesman Dan Ried insisted, while acknowledging that fuchsia might seem an odd color choice for a male-oriented car. “I saw it in person and it actually looks pretty cool,” he said. “It’s tough to capture how it looks in the daylight.” No, it’s not hard to capture. It looks pinkish-purple. Now listen, Dodge, I’m not one to tell somebody how to run their business, but you’re doing it wrong. You want to succeed in auto making I’ve got two words for you: Lean manufacturing HOVER CARS. Trust me, put all your eggs in that basket. Dodge’s new tough-guy color: Furious Fuchsia [cnn] Thanks to JOeyKy, who tells women he rides his bike everywhere because he cares about the environment even though I saw him on Operation Repo.

Who’s with me? This might just our ticket to becoming diamond gazillionaires by plundering Uranus (straight face, straight face) and Neptune’s diamond oceans ! But you will still need a rather large bank balance to purchase the Discovery Space Shuttle, which is being sold off by Nasa for $28.2 m (£17.7m). The soon-to-be redundant shuttle was the ultimate boy’s toy, flying faster and higher than any other machine in history. It was originally worth $42 million (£25.8 m) but the price has plummeted to take in the cost of hauling the monster from the Kennedy Space Centre to a major US airport. Discovery, which has completed 37 missions into space and 5,247 orbits, has already been promised to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, but shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour are still available, the Independent reports. Why that article says you can buy Discovery but then goes on to say it’s already been promised to the Kennedy Space Center is beyond me, but I suspect it has something to do with incredible journalistic skills like mine. That aside, who wants to go in on a shuttle with me? Worse comes to worse we can just park it in my backyard and play space. “Cobra Commander to Green Giant, come in Green Giant. We are docking at the Space Brothel now, confirm freaky three tittied aliens, over.” Nasa puts Discovery space shuttle up for sale for £17.7m [telegraph] Thanks to Jack, Riki Kiki Taco, Brandy Alexander the Great and Shabs, who are all welcome to join my crew for the low, low introductory rate of $8.4 million apiece.

Who’s with me? This might just our ticket to becoming diamond gazillionaires by plundering Uranus (straight face, straight face) and Neptune’s diamond oceans ! But you will still need a rather large bank balance to purchase the Discovery Space Shuttle, which is being sold off by Nasa for $28.2 m (£17.7m). The soon-to-be redundant shuttle was the ultimate boy’s toy, flying faster and higher than any other machine in history. It was originally worth $42 million (£25.8 m) but the price has plummeted to take in the cost of hauling the monster from the Kennedy Space Centre to a major US airport. Discovery, which has completed 37 missions into space and 5,247 orbits, has already been promised to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, but shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour are still available, the Independent reports. Why that article says you can buy Discovery but then goes on to say it’s already been promised to the Kennedy Space Center is beyond me, but I suspect it has something to do with incredible journalistic skills like mine. That aside, who wants to go in on a shuttle with me? Worse comes to worse we can just park it in my backyard and play space. “Cobra Commander to Green Giant, come in Green Giant. We are docking at the Space Brothel now, confirm freaky three tittied aliens, over.” Nasa puts Discovery space shuttle up for sale for £17.7m [telegraph] Thanks to Jack, Riki Kiki Taco, Brandy Alexander the Great and Shabs, who are all welcome to join my crew for the low, low introductory rate of $8.4 million apiece.

The Sharker, despite its name, has no interest in pulling your top down and exposing your breasts in public. No, it’s cool just being a monocoque motorbike and feeling the occasional butt on its supple leather seat . While most cars switched to monocoque construction (a technique that supports structural load by using an object’s exterior, as opposed to using an internal frame) back in the ’60s or ’70s, motorcycles have stuck with a traditional supporting framework, sometimes with an added fairing for aerodynamics, pretty much since they were first invented. The Sharker breaks this tradition by using its sexy carbon bodywork to support the rider, engine, and wheels, resulting in both lower weight and improved stiffness. Performance is impressive, with 140 horses ready to propel the Sharker to over 60 MPH in four seconds. Top speed can vary between 125 and 174 MPH depending on gearing choices. Neat. So what do you think — is this what motorcycles of the future will look like? No. Is it still cool looking though? A little. Is this what a motorcycle inspired dildo would look like? Absolutely. Sharker motobike is a real land shark for the 21st century [dvice]

NOTE : Due to quality video editing, it takes a couple seconds for the picture to kick in. I’m pretty sure he’s just shooting model rocket engines, but whatever, this guy attached some button operated rocket launchers to the sides of his motorcycle . Why? I honestly don’t know. Probably not a good reason though. The first 0:45 are dude talking nonsense, the pew pews start after that with the best being at 1:00 when a rocket bounces off a wall and almost hits him. Now that would’ve been cool. As it stands, video is a 3.5/10 and I regret posting it. Youtube Thanks to d_mc, Jimmy and deadbodyman, who shoot RPG’s from their motorcycles because, well, they might be terrorists.

This is a video of an old Jeep Cherokee being used to make a song by combining all the different sounds it can make (trying to start, locking/unlocking doors, door ajar alarm, etc). It is highly impressive/unbelievable. The sounds in this video are ACTUAL sounds from the Jeep. Everyone began rehearsing their parts 2 weeks before we shot the video. It took us 7 hours of filming to get a solid take. Enjoy! The song starts off kind of slow but really picks up around 1:00, so go ahead and skip to there if you don’t have much time. And, if you really don’t, how about including me in the will? Youtube Thanks to naas and STEPHENORUS, whose cars only go tsssssssssss because I’m letting the air out of their tires.

This is a Predator-themed motorcycle . If you really must know, it’s a 2007 Suzuki Hayabusa with a bunch of pieces glued on and all airbrushed . Plus some skulls for good measure. It’s pretty wicked. Granted, it’s not as wicked as a Witch of West bike would be, but that bitch was baaaaad . Hit the jump for several close-ups and a link to an even larger gallery.

If you’ve been reading Geekologie for over a year (gold star reader!) you may recall the story we ran about Lamborghini donating two Gallardo’s to the Italian police for use in high-speed chases involving other supercars . Well, if you couldn’t tell by the picture, one of them isn’t doing so hot. The 200mph Gallardo ploughed into parked cars after it swerved to avoid another vehicle that had just pulled out of a petrol station. It was being driven back from a special show for students when the accident happened near the city of Cremona. Two police officers in the car escaped with only minor injuries. No-one else was hurt in the crash. Police also use the vehicles to ferry transplant organs in specially fitted fridges. Hell yeah, transplant organs. Say — any livers in that fridge? Kidding, I’m vegetarian! Hit the jump for one more shot from the other side.

The electric-powered E’mo was designed by the StauffacherBenz Studio and looks like the lovechild of a golf cart , Jeep and Tonka truck (wild night!). I’d ride in it, but I wouldn’t be caught driving it. At least not by the police — I don’t have a license! (Think your mom can drive us to the mall later?) …the car runs on lithium-ion batteries good for about 60 miles per charge and can run at speeds up to 80 miler per hour. A release date has not been announced, but the vehicle will sell for 10,000 euros ($15,000) here. Hey, I’m all for it. Except two things: 1) I don’t feel safe going 80 in a vehicle with no doors, and 2) the name. E’mo, really? Who wants to own a car that posts pictures of itself on Myspace crying and slashing its own tires? Love Bug of the future: the electric-powered E’mo car [dvice]