Three years and running without rubber...

EXT SHANGHAI STEEL YARD Strike force in hummers & Trikes pull off HazMat suits EXT SHANGHAI SIDE STREET Kids run up to get ice cream. DOLLY FRONT SHOT Chinese kids. Headlight flare. THIN TRACK RIG BETWEEN KIDS TRUCK DIGITAL PASS THRU in front of Chinese kids. Wind kicks up. Two halves of Ice Cream Truck. One spins. Join together. Ice Cream Truck splits around Chinese kids. Leaves treats. DOLLY BACK OR CAMERA CAR REVERSE for POV shot of Ice Cream. POV kids. EXT SHANGHAI STEEL YARD GO CART & PORSCHE chasing all vehicles. Arcee motorcycle rip past Ice Cream twins EXT SHANGHAI STREET COVERAGE British SAS look at stacks. Leader tries to calm him. OVERLAP EXPLOSIONS. Ratchet soldier into window HANDHELD. Follow Lennox & team meet up with IRONHIDE. He drives up. EXT SHANGHAI STEEL YARD - BACKSIDE COVERAGE. Strike Force team searches thru interior steel yard. Old rail cars. EXT SHANGHAI STEEL YARD CONVERAGE. On actors - TO COMPLETE GO KART, Arcee & Stinger chase R8 Along street with stacks R8, Arcee, Stinger, Hummers, Trikes all race past Ice Cream Truck. Ice Cream Truck chases R8 thru alleys, Crashes, Splits in two, Twins fight LOW CAMERA R8 in bushes. Overlap explosion. R8 races away towards Backside EXT SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM Foursom getting ready to go inside-TO COMPLETE

INT SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM
Museum is now closed. Simmons w/ metal box. Leo distracts guards.
Simmons Tasers Guard. Duct tapes his hands together. Lets WHEELS out of box
Simmons drags Leo behind information desk
Sam & Mikaela come out (from hiding place. Film can & splinter
Sam & Mikaela run up to Simmons. Lets WHEELS out.
Sam & Mikaela walk past ENOLA GAY, WHEELS follows
Simmons uses radiation tracker. Leo talks over microphone
WHEELS pulls up in front of SR-71. Points. Simmons takes reading
Splinter glows. Leaps from Sam's hand. Drawn to SR-71. Hits it. Pulse Blast
Sam & Mikeala race to SR-71. Discover Decepticon symbo.
Jetfire transforms. Knocks Spce cpsule onto floor. Rolls to stop. Drops missles.
JETFIRE & group exit thru large doors to exterior. Simmons stops. Gets in capsule.

A custom-made acrylic disc brake is also used to give NVIDIA's SLI branding a little love and the two exhaust pipes do function for the PC's radiator, which assists in the water cooling. The green glow is a bit too teenage-tuner for our likes, but maybe if the wheel shell was from a 1999 Honda CRX. [Gizmodo]

Why do I feel this way? The same reason I don't like knockoff Gucci sunglasses, or BMW's recent "car in every garage" marketing strategy, or the Porsche Boxster, or overexposed couture logos on $10 tee shirts. Mass merchandising cheapens a brand. Would we hold Koenigsegg or Bugatti in the same esteem if those companies were producing watered-down, entry-level versions within the reach of the unwashed masses?

It's not just about availability or price, either. It's mostly comes right down to aesthetics. Much of the Hello Kitty stuff I come across is done so poorly or is so blatantly cheesy that it just kills the cuteness that is Hello Kitty (which includes the photo of the pink Testarossa floating around the "Internets"). I'm sure there's a better way to execute $900 rims. Personally, a small etching of Hello Kitty on the hub would suffice. Subtlety speaks volumes. Come on, people. [Kitty Hell via Autoblog

Researchers Reinvent the Wheel [The Epoch Times]

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So what if they're not perfectly round, hickory tires are the new must-have accessory for those with a woodsy bent. You can find them in the organic section of Sears Auto Center, next to the free-range oil filters. [Thanks to John for the tip.]

Skoda Capri 205 woody-not the good kind [Hemmings]

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Attention well-heeled supercar drivers looking to shed a few ugly pounds. The design prop-heads at the UK's Project Kahn have come up with a wheel that weighs as much as a load of laundry. It's the RS-X, which sports a carbon fiber rim around a magnesium core. The result is a major reduction in radial inertia, resulting in improved acceleration, and unsprung weight, which affects handling responses. Each set is custom made for each vehicle, and at a price of around $6000 $4000 per wheel, you might want to hit AutoZone for a set of curb feelers. – Mike Spinelli

The 6kg RS-X wheel - a carbon fibre rim with a magnesium centre [Gizmag]

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D'Vinci Forgiato Wheels worked up these transparent rollers made of Lexan or something. The reps say they're roadworthy, though we might have a problem with cleaning the brake dust off everytime we go out for groceries. Rolling fly is such a pain in the ass. [Gallery]

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Oh bugger. Did we really need 28" dubs embedded with your choice of zircs or diamonds? Apparently, some company called Yokebir thinks we do, and they've delivered their 924 Shock & Awe Series to do just that. We doubt that the "924" has anything to do with 924 Gilman Street, but we'd love to see what the teenage punkers hanging outside the club would think of these. In our day, they would've been done in like Jello Biafra. But the kids these days, with their Travis Barkers and whatnot, well, we just don't know. And that, frankly, makes us a little sad.

Ice Rims [via RideRoom]

Buy Dubs, Get Free Bentley [Internal]

Wheel geeks (you know who you are) must check out one of the inventions dreamed up by the engineers at Airtrax. It's a multi-surface, multi-hub roller wheel thingie that allows the company's Multi-Purpose Mobility Platform to roll in any direction (except upward). You just know some nutter is working on a version for Hummers. And damn well he should be. [Thanks to Joe for the tip.]

MP2 Multi-Purpose Mobility Platform [Airtrax]

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Takeaways from the online commercial for Pimpstar light-up rims by Dub Wheels: 1) Blondes are intrigued by shiny objects. 2) You can change the LED design on the fly, using software and a wireless modem. 3) Chicks may or may not respond to being propositioned by guys who flash their phone number on a chrome wheel. 4) Green faces are scary.

Pimpstar [via YouTube]

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