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Honda To Show Us Its P-NUT At LA Auto Show [La Auto Show]
Honda will show us its "P-NUT" at the LA Auto Show. Eew... gross. [Twitter]
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Auto-Erotic Design: McLaren F1 Form Follows Function Even With Foot Pedals [Auto-Erotic Design]
'Form follows Function' is the defining design philosophy underlying styling, engineering and packaging of every McLaren road car. The same's true for McLaren's F1 car. The perfect example? The gorgeous function-first pedal design. What's your favorite set of clutch/slow/go pads? This is the start o …
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IIHS Fires Back, Tells Toyota To Put Cars Where Its Mouth Is [Car Safety]
Toyota stamped their feet earlier claiming the IIHS Top Safety Pick awards were "extreme and misleading." Now, Russ Rader of the IIHS responds, saying, basically, Toyota can put its cars where its mouth is. Well, Russ didn't actually say that. He's too nice to say something like that. But, what he d …
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BREAKING: Jenson Button Signs With McLaren [Formula One]
Making the dissolution of Brawn GP complete, Formula One world champion Jenson Button has stepped into the fun of being Lewis Hamilton’s teammate at McLaren for 2010. It’s probably been Formula One’s worst kept secret these past few weeks, but it’s official now: after Rubens …
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Toyota Calls IIHS Top Safety Pick Results "Extreme And Misleading" [Car Safety]
Irv Miller, public affairs head of Toyota USA, just posted the automaker's official response to not receiving any 2010 IIHS Top Safety Pick awards. What's it say? The IIHS didn't test every Toyota and the new test is really hard. Toyota's claiming the roof crush test — only applied to three To …
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Chevrolet Crash Testing: A Spectator Sport? [Classic Cars]
Spectacular newsreel footage from the 1930s reveals an era when destructive testing was a spectator sport instead of laboratory science. Presented in a Hungarian catalog of prewar newsreels, this is what the copy on the title card says: HOW MUCH CAN A CAR TAKE? American carmakers test the endur …
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What Car Scares The Crap Out Of You? [Question Of The Day]
As automotive journalists we're given cars to drive. Some impress us. Some bore us. A few cause us to take deep breaths before attempting to drive; and we know we're not alone. What car scares the crap out of you? At the top of our list is the Viper SRT10, a car which manages to approximate the feel …
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REPORT: Mercedes To Build 911-Fighting Baby SLS AMG [Spy Photos]
Autocar says to expect a 911-rivaling baby brother to the Mercedes SLS AMG. Possibly hitting the streets in 2012 and called the Mercedes SSK AMG, it would scrap the gullwing door to keep its price down to $125,000. The rest is pure speculation, for instance guessing that the car would have a 0-60 ti …
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Aptera Co-Founders Step Aside, All-Electric 2e Delayed Until 2010 [I Feel Gassy]
Earlier this week former Tesla spokesman Daryl Siry, writing for Wired, reported small electric automaker Aptera's co-founders had been shoved out amid financial turmoil. Popular Mechanics quickly retorted back they were just "on vacation." Looks like Wired was right. A press release issued today by …
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REPORT: Ugly-As-Sin Fiat Doblo Coming To States As Ram Van [Over The Back Fence]
Automotive News reports the just-revealed Fiat Doblo will be sold stateside as either a seven-seater with windows or a panel van to take on the Ford Transit Connect. My name is Ram, my Doblo is full of ugly? gawkerGallery(5407438,32,); According to AN, it's due to join the recently re-branded Ram b …
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F-35B Lightning II Plans To Take Stealth Vertical [Planelopnik]
The first Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) stealth fighter arrived Sunday at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., where it will conduct its first hovers and vertical landings. The ferry flight initiates a sequence of F-35 arrivals at Patuxent River this yea …
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Abu Dhabi Gets A Nissan GT-R Police Car [Police Cars]
Are you a police officer with a hankering for the coolest patrol car at the station? The place to go is Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates where they've pressed this Nissan GT-R into service. One more shot below. (Hat tip to Craig!) [via National Post]
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Ruh-Roh, It’s a Rot Rod for $6,000! [Nice Price Or Crack Pipe]
Scooby-doo had trouble pronouncing anything but Rs. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has the mystery of a Rot Rod that should have been a Miata — if it weren't for its meddling owner. The '88 M3 drove you all to frothing-at-the-mouth levels of indignation over just what a first-gen M3 was, much …
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BREAKING: Kimi Räikkönen Leaves Formula One [Formula One]
After failing to find a car for 2010, Ferrari’s world champion has announced that he is to leave F1 for rallying. The laconic Finn’s premature exit was the talk of the sport for most of the year, especially after Ferrari’s 2009 car turned out to be quite a dud. Nowhere was Räikköne …
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BMW, Toyota Don't Make IIHS 2010 Top Safety List [Car Crashes]
This year, people aren't thinking about buying a car the IIHS considers one of the 27 safest for 2010. They're thinking about pink slips, erectile dysfunction, and suicide. According to the IIHS, these people should buy Toyotas and BMWs. Though BMW and Toyota aren't the only major automaker to not m …
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World's Fastest Street Legal Jet Truck Looks Illicit [Sema]
The Frictionator Ford F650 has a General Electric J85 Jet Engine in the bed and is the "world's fastest street legal jet truck" though we're sure kicking on the afterburner invalidates that claim. One more check-body-cant-cash jet truck photo below. Photo Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images
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Bugatti Guy Should Have Bought A Watercar [Amphibious Cars]
Capable of running 0-to-60 MPH in just 4.5 seconds and floating, we can't help but think Bugatti Guy should have bought a Watercar Python. Then, the lake plunge could have simply been a flamboyant attempt to pick up chicks. gawkerGallery(5376301,32,); [Thanks for the tip, Bob!]
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Commenter Of The Day: Madeleine Albright Edition [Commenter Of The Day]
The greatest party game every invented is not strip poker or Apples-to-Apples or even Russian roulette. It is Celebrities. Popularized by its inclusion on an episode of Sports Night, Celebrities is so simple even someone mostly paralyzed by drink can passably perform. It's basically the game of tryi …
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VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson On Audi R8 5.2 FSI: "Perfect" [Top Gear]
Jeremy Clarkson thinks the 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI is "perfect." But should we really care what he thinks? We mean, he can't even tell a funny elephant joke.
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The World's Biggest Roadside Attractions [Road Trip]
Curious where to find the world's largest artichoke, ear of corn, or talking loon? What about the largest chair in the world? Roadside attractions and horrendous murders are what make us remember small town America exists. [HowStuffWorks.com]
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