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With Jeremy Clarkson’s sacking confirmed, Toyota UK released a short highlight reel of the former Top Gear host’s adventures with its cars, from the early ’90s up until last year.…

College basketball is all about the brackets this time of year, so everyone’s trying to get in on the action. The guys from Nitto Tire are running their own rounds of playoffs between 16 awesome supercars for drag racing supremacy.…

Be an auto engineer and a race driver with The Flatworks’ PlyFly, a ready-to-assemble plywood go-kart kit. It comes with a 2.5hp or 4hp gas engine, rack and pinion steering, foam-filled wheels, disc brakes and even a safety flag.…

For one day, CarThrottle lived many a gearhead’s dream: four hours, a test track and two of the most coveted supercars in the world. They pit the Nissan GT-R R35 against its direct predecessor, a stock Nissan Skyline GT-R R34.…

People have been claiming that the flying car is just around the corner since the airplane was a new invention. The early examples were all insane death traps with detachable wings and such that didn’t work, many of the middling examples were car-esque suppositories with giant jets attached to them that also didn’t work, and then there’s this new breed.…

Ford has found some serious success with its EcoBoost engines. Ford produced these turbo engines with the goal of making the same sort of power that larger engines produce, while keeping the displacement smaller and saving on fuel.…

Just yesterday, we mentioned that word was the cool looking Mini Superleggera concept might be entering production. Along with the rumors of the Superleggera also came some talk of an even smaller Mini model that was in the works.…

Okay, so this movie looks like it will be kinda fun, but really, really dorky. Pixels features Adam Sandler, and that’s rarely a good thing. The idea of an totally alien species totally misinterpreting our time capsule and attacking us with video games is particularly amusing though, especially when it involves an enormous Pac-Man assaulting NYC.…

Yeah, your kid has that barbecue playset. Does it actually teach him/her anything about cooking? NO! Cooking is all about timing and balancing the flavors of ingredients.…

Cadillac has offered up some official details on the new CT6 sedan that will sit at the top of the Cadillac line. Caddy is using lots of aluminum in the design of the car to help the vehicle shed weight compared to an all-steel construction.…

You can see some very strange things when you visit to your local Walmart location. All you have to do is look at some of those People of Walmart images to see weirdness abound.…

It’s not on par with what Local Motors achieved, but mechanical engineer Eric Harrell still pulled off an amazing job with these scale models of the Toyota 22RE engine and W56 transmission.…

If you’ve been looking forward to test driving the new 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata, you’ll be waiting a few more months. But the good news is you can get behind the wheel of the car – at least virtually – starting on March 17.…

Using a six-year-old’s logic, the Chevrolet El Camino is clearly the coolest car ever. The six-year-old in question is Rafael Barkan, and he really wants GM to make a new El Camino. …

The Bloodhound SSC project aims to launch its jet-powered car at speeds up to 1,000 mph. While there are many engineering challenges to such an achievement, one that I never thought about before now is that the cockpit needs to be able to shelter its pilot from any flying debris kicked up during his mission.…