Gallery: World's 7 most unusual vehicles

While the Chinese government is headlining the world press with its bullet trains and submarines, ordinary citizens, on the other hand, have grabbed global attention for creating some most unusual vehicles.

Here are a couple of examples: Wu Yulu (吴玉禄), a peasant from the suburb of Beijing, has created a robot rickshaw, and Wang Qiang (王强), a former barber from Sichuan, has built an aircraft from scratch.

To introduce alternative transportation vehicles as such to the public, Italy-based art research center Fabrica is organizing an art exhibition in Shanghai’s Hong Miao Gallery -- a converted Taoist temple near the Bund.

Named “Transport -- Homemade Vehicles from around the World,” the exhibition will showcase homemade vehicles made by individuals from China and around the world

The exhibition is inspired and based on the latest issue of Colors -- a quarterly magazine published by Fabrica and sold in more than 40 countries.

According to Sarah Lee (李斯华), assistant area communications manager of Benetton Shanghai, the purpose of the show is to further promote Colors and Fabrica, which are financed by Benetton, to Chinese art aficionados.

Lee stressed that Fabrica also hopes to recruit art-loving students from Shanghai universities to join their research programs.

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Wu Yulu’s robot rickshaw and self-taught pilot Wang Qiang’s homemade aircraft will be among the exhibits at the 1,000-square-meter gallery. Most other vehicles will be presented in form of photography.

Click the gallery to check some of the world's most unusual self-made vehicles.

"Transport -- Homemade Vehicles from around the World," September 6-18, Hong Miao Art Gallery (上海虹庙艺术空间), 50, Shitan Long, 496 Nanjing Dong Lu, near Henan Zhong Lu 南京东路496号石潭弄50号, 近河南中路, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., + 86 21 6351 1310, www.colorsmagazine.com/magazines