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April 16, 2015

Test Drive the First Ever Hydrogen Racecar

Test Drive the First Ever Hydrogen Racecar
Considering that perhaps the most common use of the word “hydrogen” over the last century came right before the word “bomb,” I’m not sure I’d be so excited to hop into a race car fueled by this gas. …
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April 16, 2015

Brabus Startech: The Range Rover Avalanche

Brabus Startech: The Range Rover Avalanche
I’m not normally a fan of car/truck or truck/SUV mashups. I was never an El Camino fan and I don’t really like the Chevy Avalanche. Brabus has taken a Range Rover and turned it into something awesome, and I really like it.…
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April 16, 2015

BMW135i Plus V8 Equals Pure Envy

BMW135i Plus V8 Equals Pure Envy
From the year it came out, I’ve always had a crush on the BMW 1-series. Sure, it’s impractical, with a back seat that would have Verne Troyer kissing his knees.…
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April 14, 2015

Lazzarini Wants to Make a Ferrari-engined Fiat 500

Lazzarini Wants to Make a Ferrari-engined Fiat 500
Holy crap! I love hot hatches, I like sleepers, and I adore raucous, and berserk engine notes. This means that I almost think the Fiat 500 Abarth is perfect.…
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April 12, 2015

Modded Ferrari Enzo Burns Tires in Smoke-Filled Rage

Modded Ferrari Enzo Burns Tires in Smoke-Filled Rage
The car you see here started life as an already awesome Ferrari Enzo. What it is now is sort of a clone of a Ferrari FXX.…
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April 9, 2015

Rolls-Royce Built This AWD Phantom with a Huge Wing

Rolls-Royce Built This AWD Phantom with a Huge Wing
When I first saw this photo of a Rolls-Royce Phantom with a huge wing on the back, I thought “if I were stupid rich, this is the kind of stupid I would be.”…
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April 7, 2015

A 1968 Mustang Fastback Gets Charged up

A 1968 Mustang Fastback Gets Charged up
Keep Austin weird, so the saying goes. If that means having a local visionary gearhead develop an 800+ horsepower, 0-60 in 2-ish seconds electric car, yeah, we’ll agree, keep it weird.…
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April 7, 2015

Peugeot Design Lab Made a Dedicated Food Truck

Peugeot Design Lab Made a Dedicated Food Truck
Food trucks are wonderful little restaurants crammed haphazardly into old vans. Sometimes, if they’re either part of very successful food truck empires or started by well established chefs, they’re even haphazardly crammed into new vans.…
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April 1, 2015

Alpina Celebrates a Half-Century with the B5 & B6

Alpina Celebrates a Half-Century with the B5 & B6
Automotive tuners extraordinaire Alpina have hit their milestone 50th anniversary, and the Bavarian company is celebrating with the release of not one, but two very limited-edition BMWs.…
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March 31, 2015

Leno Falls For a 700 HP 1948 Buick Super Convertible

Leno Falls For a 700 HP 1948 Buick Super Convertible
We’re big fans of bespoke automaker Jonathan Ward, and his rolling works of art are something we dream of one day being able to afford. Known best for his masterfully modified reinterpretations of Toyota FJs and Ford Broncos, Ward has also branched out into the “derelict” market, reviving sun-baked old vehicles by capitalizing on decades worth of wear-and-tear to stunning effect.…
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March 29, 2015

The Hino House Truck

The Hino House Truck
As part of his New Zealand series, The Smoking Tire’s Matt Farah found what he says is “probably the world’s fastest two-bedroom home.” It’s a lovely house built on the bed of a 1985 Hino truck.…
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March 28, 2015

Nerd Student Freaks out Driving Instructors

Nerd Student Freaks out Driving Instructors
I crashed during my driver’s license exam. Whoops. There was a narrow bridge that was covered in snow on an Indiana back road, and I tried to sneak by the car coming in the opposite direction.…
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March 26, 2015

Mid-Engined ’63 Corvette Hitting the Auction Block

Mid-Engined ’63 Corvette Hitting the Auction Block
People have been talking about the potential for a mid-engined Corvette for years now, but nothing has come of it from GM. Rumor has it that the engine is finally migrating for the C8 generation, but only time will tell.…
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March 20, 2015

Theophilus Chin Imagines Two British Luxury Shooting Brakes

Theophilus Chin Imagines Two British Luxury Shooting Brakes
What cars were two of the biggest stars of the Geneva Motor Show this year? If you answered “Bentley EXP10 Speed 6 and Aston Martin DBX” you have just proved that you did indeed see the cars that were present.…
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March 16, 2015

Fisker Decides the Aston Vanquish Could Be Prettier

Fisker Decides the Aston Vanquish Could Be Prettier
The Aston Martin Vanquish is a damn-near perfect car, as far as aesthetics go. The proportions are perfect, the surfacing is intense without being garish, and the effect is perfectly rakish.…
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