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- January 26, 2011
- Pagani Huayra makes its official web debut
After taking a look at our high-res image gallery below, we were tempted to say the Pagani Huayra made its o-fish-ial web debut… but we won’t. Oh, wait.
In any case, Pagani’s newest supercar can now be seen in all its glory, and we generally approve of the overall styling, despite the fact [...]
- January 26, 2011
- Video: The definition of catastrophic failure
As tenants of the information superhighway’s underpass, we feast on a daily ration of bizarre automotive videos.
That diet has put us in contact with some of the most heinous clips of mechanical destruction ever seen by human eyes. But today, we bring you something that completely redefines the notion of catastrophic [...]
- January 26, 2011
- Volkswagen hits Qatar with a pair of special Touaregs
After three consecutive wins in the famously brutal Dakar Rally, Volkswagen is no stranger to cresting dunes and speeding across desert terrain. And now the German automaker has rolled in to Qatar with a pair of very special Touaregs.
Most enticing of the two is the Race Touareg 3 Qatar. Envisioned as [...]
- January 25, 2011
- BMW’s visions for future mobility look as ridiculous as they are impractical
Turns out we were way off on this whole car of tomorrow business. According to BMW the car of tomorrow is a form-fitting suit with unflattering horizontal lines and ball-bearing shoes.
Or, maybe it’s a kind of bat winged jacket that attaches to a collapsible scooter… thing. That one’s called Flymag, pictured [...]
- January 24, 2011
- VeilSide 4509 GTR is a Toyota Supra IV with an Identity Crisis
Japanese tuners sure love breaking the mold and shocking people with their creations. Revealed at the Tokyo Auto Salon, the 4509 GTR is the product of VeilSide, a Japan-based tuning firm established in 1990 by Yokomaku Hironao.
It is based on a fourth generation Toyota Supra Turbo from 1993 and has received a complete makeover with [...]
- January 24, 2011
- BMW Z5: A New Design Study for a Mid-Engined Supercar
Feast your eyes on the BMW Z5, a conceptual study for a mid-engined supercar created by a pair of young Turkish designers named İsmet Çevik and Fatih Tezel.
There’s no description attached to the pictures, but if we counted the number of cylinders correctly, the designers built the concept with a V8 [...]
- January 22, 2011
- 2013 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell
The SLS AMG Mercedes E-Cell will be produced: the official announcement comes from the headquarter in Stuttgart. The standard electric supercar goes on sale in 2013.
Dieter Zetsche, head of Daimler AG, called it “the most technologically advanced supercar in the 125 years of automotive history. ” The 125th anniversary refers to Stuttgart, who in [...]
- January 20, 2011
- ZMP RoboCar MEV seats only one but can drive even when alone (video)
Watch the video below and you’ll see that this thing is clearly not going to win any land speed records, and with nary a door it’s hardly all-weather compliant.
But, the RoboCar MEV from ZMP is more of a research vehicle, a self-driving car that’s built on an electric microcar platform. It uses [...]
- January 20, 2011
- BMW gets Nokia C7 remote control, James Bond can eat his heart out (video)
At CES and the NAIAS in Detroit this year we saw ever more powerful smartphone integration, but nothing like this.
Nokia Asia teamed up with two Chinese coders, An Jiaxuan and an unnamed friend, to whip up a C7 app that controls a BMW 1 Series.
They said it took them only 20 [...]
- January 18, 2011
- Insane Flash Flood – How a parking lot goes bye bye
Insane Video Of A Flash Flood Washing Away An Entire Parking Lot Of Cars.
While American media is consumed with the shootings in Arizona, South Eastern Australia is battling catastrophic floods.
In this video a flash flood in Toowoomba, a city 79 miles west of Brisbane, washes away a parking lot of cars in a matter of [...]
