Around the tracks: Chinese company SAIC reveals strange electric car-bike

When we do not create it ourselves, the Drive The team spends a lot of time researching and consuming automotive content from around the world.

Here are some of the photos, articles, videos or social media posts that caught our eye the most over the past week. Some of them are new, others have been online for a while.

Enjoy it, but not too much, okay?

Japanese companies 4Design and BBS recently launched a new chocolate mold, designed to replicate the forging process used to make real automotive alloys.

Six brushed aluminum pieces come together to form a 3.0 inch by 4.0 inch (7.6 cm by 10.1 cm) Formula 1 hub-shaped cavity, into which melted chocolate is poured.

Until someone invents marshmallow tires and a musk stick transaxle, practical applications may be limited. But still … yum.

Chinese auto giant (and parent company of Australian companies MG and LDV) ‘R RYZR’ new concept combines the disadvantages of a full-size car with the disadvantages of a motorcycle: Buyers can now get rained on , have nowhere to store their luggage, and not find a parking space, all in the same vehicle.

Electric motors integrated in the hubs of the rear wheels drive the two-seater and hydraulic arms articulated on the front wheels are used for the steering. The two passengers are suspended on floating seats side by side.

Although it has yet to be built, its designers call the futuristic electric quadricycle “a car you actually wear”, and claim that it represents the “ultimate symbiosis of man and machine”.

Youtube channel Garage 54 – famous for his weird and wacky automotive inventions – converted a Lada 1600 sedan into a 14-wheel monster truck, because why not?

Two wheels of the giant’s rear axle are driven directly by the Russian car’s 1.6-liter four-cylinder petrol engine, which spins the tires underneath by contact friction. The steering system has been replaced by the front of a tractor, with a jungle of welds that hold everything together.

While it may not be the most practical vehicle on the road today, the visibility is second to none.