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Acura Achieves Top NHTSA and IIHS Crash Safety Scores
As an appreciator (yes, I’m using that word) of fine automobiles that have a decent level of fit and finish and performance without the price tag of a German import, I was pretty happy to see Honda score (for the first time of any car out there) straight “A” scores across the board for Front, [...]
Continue reading...MDI’s Air Car Brought to US by Zero Pollution Motors
Saturday, August 16, 2008
We covered the MDI-designed “Air Car” back in May, with a very cool video describing the design of the air engine and technology behind the futuristic “to be” car as well as the existing in-use applications of the hyper-powerful compressed-air-based engines. Jens Eckels has sent along news that it looks like US company Zero Pollution Motors [...]
Continue reading...Blowing Cars up With Big Guns
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Brian Fernandes just sent this in… it’s the guy from Top Gear being awesome and blowing up cars, that are shot off cliffs, with giant guns and eventually a rocket launcher. I smell a new FPS like Duck Hunt… but awesomer: Target Practice – Watch more free videos
Continue reading...Return of K.I.T.T.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Springing off the success of the 80’s rework of “Transformers”, NBC seems to be bringing the return of “Knight Rider”. It seems as though we will be seeing a 2 hour made for TV movie airing on Feb 17. With the Transformers movie we saw the the widespread use of GM vehicles. But apparently [...]
Continue reading...What is it Like to Drive a Bugatti Veyron?
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Autoblog’s Jonathan Ramsey had a freaking awesome opportunity to drive a Bugatti Veyron recently and did a great write-up on it. As a lover of fast things, the parts of his writeup that made me cry with joy were pieces like the following: Hit the gas. The car rockets forward. Immediately. Instantly. … And you’re not even [...]
Continue reading...Gas Station Pumps Sewer Water Instead of Fuel
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
This is just disgusting and expensive to fix… Todd Swarthout just sent along a story about a Florida Citgo gas station on East Colonial Drive at Old Cheney Highway pumping out what seemed to be sewer water from it’s tanks instead of gasoline. The problem was noted after a multitude of cars, filling up at the [...]
Continue reading...Nissan Introduces “Around View”
Friday, October 12, 2007
Robert Heron sends in some sweet news. It looks like Nissan will be introducing cars with their new “Around View” system to Elgrand at the end of this month. The system works (as you can see above) by integrating the footage of 4 cameras and creating a full surround view of the vehicle to you inside [...]
Continue reading...Infrared Cameras in D.C. Will Catch Cheating Commuters
Thursday, October 4, 2007
This seems… a bit aggressive to me, but I understand why it might be necessary… In Washington D.C., infrared cameras are being installed to watch the commuters in the carpool lane. As the cars pass under the camera, if only 1 human is detected in the car, the driver will be issued a ticket for using [...]
Continue reading...Greenest Cars on the Planet, Prius #12
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
This was a shock to me, but a report from Cardiff University and automotive consultants Thames Clifford rated the top 12 greenest cars in the world, and the Prius surprisingly came in #12. The entire list is as follows (in order of greeness): Smart Roadster Smart Fortwo cabriolet Citroen C1 1.0i Peugeot 107 1.0 Citroen C1 1.4 HDi Fiat Panda 1.2 Ford Ka [...]
Continue reading...Electric Car War Heats Up
Friday, September 14, 2007
After GM intentionally destroyed it’s lead with the electric car in early 2000, it looks like the battle to win the electric car race is heating up. First GM announces the Volt and starts promoting it years before a production model is completed. The way the Volt works is to run completely off of internal batteries, [...]
Continue reading...High Performance Sport Cars
Friday, September 7, 2007
These are awesome. Basically some super-fly car mods (click for more)… that shouldn’t cost more than $8
Continue reading...New Car Dealer Stickers Deployed
Saturday, September 1, 2007
For a while now we have been hearing about how the estimated MPG standards were going to be changed to be more accurate and fairly drastically alter the MPG value given on car windows. Well it’s been done and the new stickers are making their ways onto cars. Autoblog reports that in addition to the MPG [...]
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