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Blowing Cars up With Big Guns

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

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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

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Return of K.I.T.T.

Sunday, December 16, 2007

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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 [...]

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What is it Like to Drive a Bugatti Veyron?

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

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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 [...]

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Gas Station Pumps Sewer Water Instead of Fuel

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

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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 [...]

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Nissan Introduces “Around View”

Friday, October 12, 2007

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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 [...]

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Infrared Cameras in D.C. Will Catch Cheating Commuters

Thursday, October 4, 2007

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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 [...]

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Greenest Cars on the Planet, Prius #12

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

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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 [...]

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Electric Car War Heats Up

Friday, September 14, 2007

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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, [...]

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High Performance Sport Cars

Friday, September 7, 2007

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These are awesome. Basically some super-fly car mods (click for more)… that shouldn’t cost more than $8

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New Car Dealer Stickers Deployed

Saturday, September 1, 2007

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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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Honda Civic Type R Revision

Friday, June 29, 2007

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Very hot. Looks like Japanese will get their hands on the new Type R in September coming in 22lbs lighter with 15 more HP maxing out at 240hp… for a 2700lbs car… WOOHOO!

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NC Man Fined $1000 for Using Alt. Fuel

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

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Slashdot reports that a North Carolina man was fined $1000 “Fuel Tax” by city officials when it was discovered he was burning Vegetable Oil in his car, instead of standard gasoline. Reggie Little, assistant director of the motor fuel taxes division said: We’re not here to hurt the small guy, we’re just trying to make sure [...]

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Ford Airstream, Hydrogen/Electric Concept Car

Sunday, January 14, 2007

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This is slick. Ford took the wraps off of its new Hydrogen/Electric hybrid concept car called the Airstream. Autogreen had the scoop. Check out Autogreen’s gallery for more shots.

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Chevy Volt, Rechargable Hybrid by 2010

Sunday, January 7, 2007

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AutoblogGreen has the scoop on the new Chevy Volt (think of a mini version of the sporty Cadillac) that can get up to 40miles on a single electric charge, can recharge in 6 hours, and with gas or ethanol can run up to 640 miles on a single tank. Those are some pretty incredible stats [...]

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Ford’s 300C (Ford Interceptor)

Sunday, December 31, 2006

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Cool, ran across a blog post about the new Ford Interceptor, Ford’s answer to the 300C from Chrysler (and the entire LX platform: Magnum, Charger, 300C)

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