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The Frictionator: Jet Powered And Street Legal
11:31PM Danny Allen | This is what happens when you strap a 7000hp General Electric J85 Jet Engine (with a top speed of 320km/h) to a Ford F650 ute. Video after the jump. More »
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3:33AM Adam Frucci | This seems dangerous: a crazy person is taking an old OutRun cabinet and turning it into an actual working car that renders on screen what’s actually in front of you. More »
Student Plans To Mod Old OutRun Cabinet Into A Car
3:33AM Adam Frucci | This seems dangerous: a crazy person is taking an old OutRun cabinet and turning it into an actual working car that renders on screen what’s actually in front of you. More »
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Surfing The Road On An iPhone-Controlled Oldsmobile
2:20AM Jesus Diaz | Remember that smart German iPhone-controlled car that used cameras, GPS and lasers to perfectly run through the streets of Berlin? Well, screw German efficient engineering. That’s not how it’s done in America. More »
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With SoundRacer, Your Kia Can Fake It With The Best Of Them
8:00AM Jack Loftus | Poseurs rejoice, your faux V8 and V10 engine sounds are here. More »
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3:40PM Rosa Golijan | Aside from looking like a giant crustacean, this concept Nissan Vehicle-to-Grid (aka V2G) automobile seems like it would perfectly satisfy those who crave the manoeuvrability of a motorcycle, yet can’t abandon the protective frame of a car. Plus it looks super-duper-speedy. More »
The V2G Automobile Brings Out The Speed Demon In Me
3:40PM Rosa Golijan | Aside from looking like a giant crustacean, this concept Nissan Vehicle-to-Grid (aka V2G) automobile seems like it would perfectly satisfy those who crave the manoeuvrability of a motorcycle, yet can’t abandon the protective frame of a car. Plus it looks super-duper-speedy. More »
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The World’s Most Efficient Electric Car Is Destined To Fail
6:53AM Jesus Diaz | According to Gordon Murray — the ex-McLaren’s Formula 1 designer responsible for the T.27 car — one day we all will be driving one of these vehicles. And wearing clown costumes. I don’t care that it’s the most efficient car. It won’t work. More »
GPS
Garmin EcoRoutes ESP Displays Car Diagnostics On Your Nuvi GPS
5:20AM Sean Fallon | Sometime next year, Garmin nuvi GPS devices will have the option of displaying information on your car’s inner workings using EcoRoutes ESP — a module that taps into your car’s onboard diagnostics (OBD-II) port. More »
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Inflatable Seatbelts…Really Ford?
3:56AM Mark Wilson | Times are tough for the automotive industry. Consumers have less money, the environment has less tolerance and nothing short of new engineering paradigms can fix any of it. You know, stuff like inflatable rear seatbelts. More »
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5:46PM Nick Broughall | This is the team behind the solar car which won the Global Green challenge race from Darwin to Adelaide. Seems to me that they would have been pretty crowded in that thing… More »
But How Do They All Fit In Such A Compact Car?
5:46PM Nick Broughall | This is the team behind the solar car which won the Global Green challenge race from Darwin to Adelaide. Seems to me that they would have been pretty crowded in that thing… More »
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11:45AM Damian Francis | Without meaning any disrespect to the workers at the Tsutsumi Manufacturing plant in Toyota City, watching them work as like watching the perfect ant farm. It’s rare to see such organisation in human activity. Although being that this is Japan (the Switzerland of the east perhaps) it wasn’t overly surprising. More »
Infiltrating Toyota’s Tsutsumi Manufacturing Plant
11:45AM Damian Francis | Without meaning any disrespect to the workers at the Tsutsumi Manufacturing plant in Toyota City, watching them work as like watching the perfect ant farm. It’s rare to see such organisation in human activity. Although being that this is Japan (the Switzerland of the east perhaps) it wasn’t overly surprising. More » 
