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Ferrari Wins F1 Race With Cellulosic Ethanol Blend

Here’s an interesting tech tid-bit that I missed from the opening race of the F1 season: The Ferraris are running bio-fuel. Specifically, it’s some sort of cellulosic ethanol blend that the boys from Maranello and Shell developed. Well that’s pretty cool. Not that it will be enough to silence the naysayers, but it’s still worth [...]

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Black & Matte Special Edition Mazda MX-5

I like Miatas (nee MX-5s) a lot. And I also have a real penchant for hot rods (much to my father’s dismay), so I am generally predisposed to like primer black as an automotive “finish”. So that means that a new, special edition of the Miata that’s all primer black hits a couple of bull’s [...]

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Bloodhound SSC Team On The Road To 1,000 MPH

Land speed racing sure moves slow sometimes. Unlike other forms of motorsports, like Formula 1, where there are new cars every year, land speed racing moves more in fits and starts, most of the time. Practically speaking, there’s no set season. The whole game essentially moves forward when one of the competitors sets a new, [...]

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edo competition’s 550HP Aston Martin DBS

So here we have edo competition’s idea (and yeah, it’s all lower case, and yeah, I’m as puzzled as you are on why tuning firms have to monkey with stuff like that) on what really should have been done with Aston Martin’s DBS. The short answer is that edo feels that 550HP is what should [...]

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Tata Debuts Nano EV Concept At Geneva

Well, here it is all you global warming deniers, guys who think that Ralph Nader is some sort of Communist plot to take away your God-given Hemi, gearheads who think that “the libruls” are going to force you to drive a hideous little car with no power and no fun: The Tata Nano EV Concept. Tata [...]

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Westfield iRACER Debuts At Geneva

To quote Mr. Spock: “Fascinating!” Westfield, makers of a very good Lotus 7 variant (one of the all time great sportscars, no two ways about it) rolled out a very, very interesting version of some sort of 7 they call the Westfield iRACER. And this, if you ask me, is a clear way forward. Because [...]

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Mercedes-Benz BlueTEC Diesel G-Wagen G350

For all the excess of yesterday’s post, why not counter that with a little bit more understated and, a-hem, responsible SUV. In this case, it’s the latest version of Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen, the G350 which now features a BlueTEC Diesel plant under it’s large, square hood. No, the Mercedes Geländewagen isn’t the freshest face on the block, [...]

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CFC Chromed-Out Hummer H2

How long, O Lord, how long? Just when you think it can’t get any more gauche in the customized SUV world, someone decides to go there. Someone, in this case a custom shop by the name of CFC, decided that what the world really needed was not just another tricked out (and fully useless) Hummer, [...]

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The Return of Hispano-Suiza

Sadly, this is not a full blown return for Hispano-Suiza, the vaunted Spanish car builder that had a penchant for using airplane engines in street cars (think about that for a while). No, this time around Hispano-Suiza has come back as a coach builder, and they’ve decided to do up some custom coachwork for Audi’s [...]

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200-HP Citroen DS3 Racing

Take that, John Cooper Works Mini Coopers! Or maybe not. Citroen doesn’t say that their 200-HP Citroen DS3 Racing was built to directly go up against the hottest hatch in the Mini line up, but I (for one) would like to see them duke it out on the track. (No, not the street. I don’t [...]

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