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Last fall, Local Motors unveiled a mod-looking little car called the Strati that was constructed using a massive 3D printer. Like most all of these projects, the shell of the car was built layer by layer, was essentially one piece and took about 44 hours to complete.…

I love LEGO, especially now that I have a three year old. And I love Ferraris, even though I will probably never own one. Well, I’ll never own a real one, but I may just fork up the $90 asking price for the incredibly cool new LEGO Ferrari F40, from the toy maker’s Creator Expert line.…

Lots of people own cars that they do not use very much. So that means an expensive asset just sits there most of the time, doing nothing but costing you money.…

A Ferrari and a snowmobile meet up at a drag strip – that sounds like the start of some kind of lame car joke. But the video surrounding this actual match-up is anything but silly.…

If Lexus is truly working on an image change, then it’s perhaps no more evident than their creation of a genuine working hoverboard. The luxury arm of Toyota has been working on a prototype that uses what’s called super-conductive technology and magnetic levitation with liquid nitrogen-cooled superconductors and permanent magnets to provide completely frictionless motion.…

When I turned 16, one of the kids at my school got an old VW camper van as his first car. It was awesome and I was rather jealous of the coolness of that bus.…

Chris Pratt’s velociraptor-taming pose in Jurassic World has become a popular Internet meme, with real zookeepers even joining in the fun, assuming the same pose in front of their animals.…

Last year we reported on the awesome Exotics Racing experience located at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which is situated about 20 minutes north of the Strip.…

When most people apply hot water to a swanky ride like a new BMW they’re trying to get it sparkling clean at the local car wash so they can drive around and show it off.…

The term “rental car” still causes depression and anxiety amongst travelers due to reservation hassles, lines, insurance costs and, of course, crap cars. Silvercar wants to change much of that by offering only silver Audi A4’s for rental.…

At the beginning of this year, a group of 103 gearheads gathered in Australia to all hit the gas on their rides at once to set the world record for the largest simultaneous car tire burnout.…

Land Rover is testing a new remote control driving system that sounds like something straight out of James Bond movies. The prototype system allows a driver to control their vehicle at speeds of up to 4mph while outside the vehicle via an app running on their smartphone.…

When I was in my early 20s, a good friend of mine bought a brand new blue Toyota Corolla. To christen it, we drove to the farmer’s market for our weekly grocery run.…

My dad owned a car lot when I was a kid and he always had some cool car he drove. Mostly it was Corvettes, but he had the occasional ’60s Mustang or Datsun 280Z.…

If you have never heard of the Bloodhound SSC, it is a vehicle that aims to set a land speed record and break the speed of sound on land.…