Fun Stuff
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Ever wanted to lead a car company? Ever looked at rows upon rows of sedans in a parking lot and said to yourself, "If I were in charge, I'd do things differently!"? A new videogame called Automation is about to let you put your virtual money where your real-world mouth is. On the pre-order website, Automation is described as "a car company tycoon game in which you design and build cars from scratch. It is you who designs everything from the very core that is the engine, over the chassis, to the suspension and the car's looks." Which makes it sound like yet another sim game -- SimCity...
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Bentley To Auction Handcrafted Collector's Items
If you're a fan of Bentley, the annual Bentley Graduates auction to raise money for The Prince's Trust begins today. Where else can you get a table made from a Mulsanne engine block?
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Friday Fun: Our Top Ten Retro Console Racing Games
Occasionally, the All Car Tech team gets pangs of nostalgia for times gone by, and we often yearn for the days of 1980s excess, when braces were red and Porsches were white with whale-tail spoilers. Inevitably, the subject of video games will pop up. We love a good racing game here, and the...
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NADAguides Misses The Bus On Back-To-School Vehicles: No Porsche 911
For those of you that aren't in the family-car loop, NADAGuides, a well-known vehicle valuation and advice service, has named its best back-to-school vehicles. The only problem is they missed the best one: the Porsche 911 school bus. Instead, the company chose the 2011 Chevy Cruze LS, the 2011 Ford...
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Video: Creating Hockenheim For The Forza Motorsport 4 Game
The 1980s was an exciting time to be a young person. The reason? Video games. From coin-operated arcade games to the advent of home games consoles a whole generation had a new form of entertainment and for the budding gearheads, the best fun was provided by racing games. Just as car technology has...
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Audi R8 LMS Racing Simulator Races In To Gamescom 2011
If you think the racing sim setup you have in your living room is impressive, think again. Audi's racing simulator on show at videogame show Gamescom 2011 in Cologne, Germany makes a mockery of your steering wheel and pedals combo. That's because Audi has created an entire R8 LMS GT3 race car...
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If you've always found the Segway's two wheels to be a little excessive you'll be pleased to hear Audi has come to the rescue. The A0 - A1 being a European-market minicar and A2 an aluminum-bodied economy car - is a conceptual foray into the world of personalized mobility developed jointly by Technische Universität München in Germany, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. It's known as a monocycle (presumably "unicycle" sounds a little too "circus clown") and motion is granted by an electric motor that turns a single, hollow wheel that's self-stabilized and...
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Chevy Camaro's Airbags Deploy While Attempting To Drift -- Update: GM Responds
This Camaro's airbags deploy--without any contact--while a driver tries to drift his car.
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MINI's Tenth Birthday Celebration Is Out Of This World
To celebrate a decade of MINI sales in Britain, the company is launching a space-themed celebration, complete with a grand-prize trip to Cape Canaveral, FL
Kurt Ernst -
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi Video Tour
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi officially opened its doors in November, 2010 but if you haven't had the chance to go yet then enjoy this video tour.
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Woman-Ogling Scooter Rider Crashes Into Parked Van: Video
We don't speak Chinese, but we don't need to: this video speaks a univeral language. Somewhere in China, a scooter rider found himself passing what must be a very attractive young woman. His attention to the woman and not the road ends in painful hilarity. As the scooter rider cranes his neck to...
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Himler's Mom Screams As He Unleashes 1,250-HP Twin-Turbo Gallardo
Remember that incredible video of the fire-spitting twin-turbo Underground Racing Gallardo we showed you a few weeks back? Well the videographer and owner, Robert Himler, has gifted us another brilliant video, this time of his (rather attractive) mom screaming as he mats the gas pedal. She protests...
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This prototype stretch limousine, built specifically for the safety of Pope Paul VI, was also used as a parade vehicle for Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Jim Lovell. Astronauts, the pope, and a 1964 Lincoln Continental. It's like the most random, yet awesome, trifecta imaginable. There's a host of interior modifications, a 160-inch wheelbase, and, of course, classic Continental good looks. It can all be yours if you're well-heeled enough to beat out the competition at the Bonhams auction at the Quail Lodge in Carmel, California, August 18-19--just ahead of the Pebble Beach...
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In Next-Gen Art Cars, Fashion & Obsession Collide
When you think of art cars, you probably think of BMW rides commissioned from visionaries like Andy Warhol and Jenny Holzer. Or maybe you think of homegrown models, bedecked with plastic army figurines and Mardi Gras beads. But photographer Luis Gispert has found another variety of art car -- one...
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German Driver Sets New Parallel Parking World Record: Video
English stunt driver and general behind-the-wheel-badass Russ Swift once held the record for parallel parking a car in the smallest space between two others. He did it, naturally, in a Mini, with the aid of a handbrake turn. The German who just reset the new record in a considerably smaller space...
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NFL Coach Sells His Mercedes-Benz SL 500 To Cafeteria Worker For $20
Ray Horton, ex-secondary coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers and new defensive coordinator for the Arizona Cardinals, did a pretty generous thing recently: he sold his 1999 Mercedes-Benz SL 500 to a long-time cafeteria worker that served the coaches and staff for just $20. The car is worth closer to...
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Cop Run Over By Criminal, Gets Up And Chases, Arrests Him: Video
This English cop must have eaten his Weetabix one fateful morning: while attempting to setup a road block to stop a fleeing criminal, the officer is sent flying when the crook's car rams the police vehicle. That's not the end of the story for this British cop, however. Surrey, England police...
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AMG Driving Academy Takes You Drifting: Video
If you haven't been following the AMG Driving Academy Performance Series with Tommy Kendall since we brought you the first episode, you should have been. This is an example of why: TK and and AMG driving instructor Nick Kunewalder walk you through some of the basic how-tos of drifting. From...
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The 2011 BMW 1-Series M Coupe does a quick trip around the Nurburgring with an M3 CSL to chase. Fun ensues.
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Tanner Foust X Games 17 Fiesta Rallycross Walkaround: Video
He's our favorite part of Top Gear USA, and he's one of the favorites to win the Rallycross competition at X Games 17: He's Tanner Foust, and in this video he gives us a walkaround, inside and out, of his car for the competition. Foust's wide-ranging driving experience and understanding of the...
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Infiniti Working On QX56 V-8-Powered Boat Project
It's not really car-related, but since it uses the 5.6-liter V-8 from the Infiniti QX56, we find the company's plan to build a boat around the big engine pretty interesting. So far, Infiniti has done little more than reveal it's working on the project--but there's some special stuff in store...
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Ken Block, DC Shoes Gymkhana FOUR In The Works
Yep, the self-appointed Honcho of Hoonage is at it again: the fourth installment of Ken Block's Gymkhana series is underway. Due for release late this summer, Gymkhana FOUR promises to pack all of the "precision, speed, and tire smoke" you'd expect. Central in the video Block's H.F.H.V--the Hybrid...
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Ken Block Unveils Hybrid Function Hoon Vehicle: Video
Ford's insane versions of the Fiesta for Ken Block's Gymkhana and WRC cars are nothing short of mind-blowing in their ability to generate power and turn it into tire smoke, especially considering the tiny displacement of the turbo hatch. The latest take on the uber-Fiesta is a "hybrid function hoon...
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Darth Vader Crosses Over To The Dark Side (AKA Garmin)
A little over a year ago, we told you about a licensing deal that brought familiar Star Wars voices like Darth Vader and Yoda to TomTom voice-navigation. Now, however, it appears that Darth Vader has become a double-agent, because he's now on Garmin, too. Everyone's second-favorite man in black...
Richard Read