Loading ...This guy must surely be nuts! 130 MPH on a bicycle on the snow.
If you haven’t seen this yet you have to check it out.
Austria’s Markus Stoeckl, 33, set a new world record at the weekend for series mountain bikes on a renovated high-speed La Parva run in the Chile’s Alps when he hit a [...]
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Looks like Porsche engineers better get the 911 Turbo back to the shop. The 2009 Nissan GT-R has them beat!
The legendary Nissan GT-R will finally be available in the U.S. and when it arrives it will be packing a healthy dose of twin turbo horsepower. High gas prices? Who cares? This baby was built with [...]
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It’s a scenario befitting a Hollywood thriller.
A sophisticated hacker in Seat 11A uses an on-board Internet system to infiltrate a plane’s computer, seizing control of its navigation systems, communications and flight controls.
Not terribly likely, the Federal Aviation Administration says. In fact, it may be impossible.
But just to make certain, the FAA and airplane manufacturers are [...]
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The 2009 Nissan Skyline GT-R is a legend before it even enters production.
Born from a long line of Skyline GT-Rs dating back to 1969, this latest version — “R36″ to the hard-core — promises to pack more turbocharged power, more all-wheel-drive technology and more sheer speed than any Japanese car ever to come to America.
For [...]
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The Ford Motor Co. has finally given “Bullittheads” their latest fix, releasing all the critical details on Tuesday about the long-awaited 2008 Mustang Bullitt.
Ford’s “second tribute” to the iconic 1968 Bullitt Mustang hews carefully to the car that set a new standard for chase scenes in the Steve McQueen action flick that celebrates its 40th [...]
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WEISSACH, Germany: Nobody is ever going to mistake a Porsche for a Prius. But the sports car maker is hoping to blur the line between its gas-guzzling, carbon-spewing speedsters and the environmentally conscious hybrids produced by Toyota.
Porsche plans to produce the Cayenne, its sport utility vehicle, with a hybrid gasoline-and-electric engine by the end of [...]
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The GT2’s 3.6-liter twin-turbocharged boxer-six will boast 530 hp for an increase of 50 hp over the previous GT2 and is mated to a six-speed manual transmission. The bump in power is accompanied by 15 percent better fuel efficiency from a cooler fuel/air mixture. To achieve this, the expansion intake manifold uses oscillating air to [...]
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Nissan North America has a warning for customers: Placing your electronic key too close to your cellphone could leave you stranded.
The automaker is asking customers driving new models of two of its flagship sedans to keep their car keys and cellphones at least an inch apart to avoid disabling the “intelligent keys.”
Cellphones kept near Nissan’s [...]
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Think your car’s fast? Think again. If you haven’t seen this 2200 HP street legal monster then you need to check this car out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtxfbxGz1u4
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