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  • Lego Technic BMW Motorrad R 1200 GS Adventure Hover Ride

    It all started with a motorcycle and a set of Legos. The bike in question is the BMW R 1200 GS Adventure, and it's a go-anywhere two-wheeler that lives up to its name. Lego Technic decided to recreate it in scale brick form, and the result is awesome. In fact, this Lego Technic kit isn't just one bike because it's a 2-in-1 kit that lets buyers build the R 1200 GS Adventure or a version reimagined as...a hover bike. ALSO SEE: BMW Motorrad Vision Next 100 deep dive All 603 pieces in the kit were given out to Lego Technic team members, who were tasked with coming up with the other half of the...

  • Engineering Explained walks us through the Motor Trend 0-60 run with the Tesla Model S
    No, the Tesla Model S P100D doesn't do 0-60 in 2.28 seconds

    It's all about math and physics, folks. At least that's the soup that fills the head of Engineering Explained host Jason Fenske, which is why he's so easily able to explain scientific concepts to the average YouTube viewer. Recently, he posted a video going over the numbers produced by Motor Trend...

  • 2017 Renault Sport R.S.17 Formula One race car
    Renault Sport reveals 2017 Formula One racer

    Renault Sport on Tuesday unveiled its challenger for the 2017 Formula One World Championship, the R.S.17. Renault didn’t enjoy a miracle start to its comeback last year and instead ended the season third last, with only Sauber and defunct team Manor behind it. There’s renewed hope with...

  • Aston Martin teaming up with Tom Brady
    Tom Brady teaming up with Aston Martin

    Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback of all time, is joining forces with a new team. No, he's not leaving the NFL champion New England Patriots. Instead, he's adding a new partner to his portfolio of companies to which he lends his name and dashing likeness. That name will be joining one coined by...

  • Margot Robbie and the Nissan BladeGlider in Monaco
    Margot Robbie races BladeGlider around Monaco as Nissan's new EV ambassador

    You may know Margot Robbie from such movies as "The Wolf of Wall Street," "Suicide Squad," "The Big Short," and "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot." You may recognize the Nissan BladeGlider from the 2013 Tokyo motor show and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, where Nissan took folks for rides in two...

  • McLaren documentary
    'McLaren' movie trailer will inspire, tug at heartstrings

    "I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone." Those words from race driver Bruce McLaren come at the end of the new trailer for the upcoming film "McLaren." Born in 1937 in New Zealand, Bruce McLaren seemingly came from nowhere to take on the big boys of racing and beat them at...

  • Jay Leno and the Pagani Huayra

    When Horacio Pagani first brought the Huayra to America, one of the first stops he made was at Jay Leno’s garage. That was back in 2011, and because the Huayra hadn’t been certified at the time Leno wasn’t actually able to drive the car. That issue was rectified just a year later and Leno finally got some time behind the wheel. Now the Huayra has stopped by Leno’s garage for the third time. This time around, the car is the one-off Huayra 730 S originally commissioned by YouTuber Salomondrin (aka Alejandro Salomon). He sold it last year to famous Ferrari collector David...

  • 2017 Ford Mustang GT during filming of 'C’etait un Rendez-Vous’ remake
    Ford recreates Paris ‘Rendezvous’ run... with a twist

    Any car enthusiast knows the story of “Rendezvous,” the video of a highly illegal drive through the streets of Paris, supposedly, in a Ferrari 275 GTB. The video was created by filmmaker Claude Lelouch in August of 1976, and years later we learned that the car he used was actually a...

  • Hoversurf Scorpion 3
    Company demonstrates working hoverbike

    There’s a surprising number of companies attempting to develop personal hovercraft. Most are working on skateboard-style hoverboards, a concept popularized in the 1989 movie “Back to the Future Part II.” Some, however, have more ambitious plans. Take for example Russia’s...

  • Heel-and-toe vs. clutchless downshifts
    The merits of heel-and-toe vs. clutchless shifting on snow

    Heel-and toe shifting is a pretty cool trick that you can pull out to try to impress your car guy buddies on the street. If you get it right, maybe they'll be impressed. If that passenger is your wife, boss, any other non-car person, odds are they won't even know what you are talking about, and...

  • 2017 Williams FW40 Formula One race car
    Williams first to reveal 2017 F1 car, Mercedes signs James Allison as Technical Director

    The cars of the 2017 Formula One World Championship will be very different to anything we’ve seen in the past several years. Among the changes are longer, wider bodies and much wider tires. The changes are aimed at increasing downforce and grip, which should lead to higher speeds and thus...

  • Dubai nearly ready to bring autonomous passenger drones into service
    Dubai to offer flying taxi service using autonomous drones?

    Testing is already underway in Dubai on a new means of zipping through a crowded city. It involves an autonomous drone capable of carrying a passenger... and some brave test subjects. Dubai's Roads and Transportation Authority has been examining the drones and provided a demonstration of the...

  • DC United's new stadium to be called Audi Field

    Audi is a fixture in the D.C. and Northern Virginia area. The automaker calls that part of the country home for its North American operations. So it makes sense, then, that if Audi were interested in grabbing the naming rights to a new stadium it would be one in that neck of the woods. Starting in 2018 when it opens, the new Audi Field will become the home to the D.C. United soccer team. Back in 2015, Audi became the official sponsor of Major League Soccer, so this move helps solidify that bit of branding. Overseas, Audi in Germany sponsors the Bayern München football club. CHECK OUT...

  • Point of view angle of the Ram Power Wagon's off-road suspension
    Be mesmerized by the action of this off-road suspension

    Suspension can be a surprisingly mesmerizing bit of mechanical enjoyment. Go stare at a Trophy Truck as it rips across the desert and think about all of the work that the springs and dampers are handling. The abuse being dished out is both amazing and terrifying. Yet those trucks float over most of...

  • Teaser for 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon debuting at 2017 New York auto show
    Here’s how the 2018 Dodge Demon will launch harder than a Hellcat

    We know the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon will pack more power than its 707-horsepower Hellcat sibling, but this is just one of the factors that will enable the car to launch off the line much harder. In the latest installment of its teaser campaign for the Demon, which debuts April 12 at the...

  • Casey Currie takes on the Monza road course in his off-road racing "Jeep"
    Driving an off-road V-8 truck on a tarmac road course looks like fun

    The Monza Rally Show brings together all manner of racing machine eager to get down on a mixture of the circuit's racing surfaces. There was an entry this year that may have seemed a bit foreign to the Italian crowd watching and listening to the action. Wearing a Jeep badge and seven-slotted grille...

  • New ‘Top Gear’ hosts Chris Harris, Matt LeBlanc and Rory Reid
    New season of ‘Top Gear’ starts March 5, coming to BBC America March 13

    Is there any hope for a “Top Gear” revival now that the show’s former hosts are causing up a storm on Amazon’s “The Grand Tour” rival? With Chris Evans out and Chris Harris in, we say there’s a good chance. And the first trailer out for the new season with...

  • Engineering Explained talks about how the Tesla Model S can do the 0-60 run in 2.28 seconds
    How the Tesla Model S hits 60 mph in 2.28 seconds

    The 0-60 mph times for the Tesla Model S keep getting lower and lower. The new P100D package really helps put all of the horsepower to the ground efficiently, and makes the electric sedan rocket away from a standstill. Recently, we saw a drag racer in a stock P100D record a time of 2.38 seconds...

  • Ford has to water and splash test the GT

    The Ford GT has 647 horsepower and can reach a top speed of 216 mph. Beneath its skin sits a 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 engine that produces 550 pound-feet of torque from as low as 3,500 rpm. It will cost you somewhere north of $450,000 to buy one, if you were lucky enough to be chosen by Ford as one of the few with the chance to do so. Also, as Ford engineers prove in this video, it passes the water and splash test. Ford puts all of its vehicles through this test to make sure they can handle puddles that might be bigger than what you get with your average pothole. This is an extreme...

  • 2018 Subaru Legacy, 2017 Chicago auto show
    2018 Subaru Legacy breaks cover at 2017 Chicago auto show

    Subaru has taken the wraps off the updated 2018 Legacy at the 2017 Chicago auto show. Completely redesigned for the 2015 model year, this is a mid-cycle refresh instead of a full-on generational change-over. Highlights of the update include new styling front and rear, improved interior materials...

  • Lucid Air snow testing
    Lucid Air gets sideways during snow testing

    Lucid, the startup that plans to release the 1,000-horsepower Air electric sedan, appears to be serious about getting its car into production. We recently saw it prowling the San Francisco streets, and now Lucid has released a video of the car undergoing snow testing. That's not unusual for any...

  • Scene from 'Transformers: The Last Knight'
    New Transformers 5 trailer possibly hints at planet eater Unicron

    “The Fate of the Furious” wasn’t the only car-related movie teased during last weekend’s Super Bowl LI. The latest trailer for “Transformers: The Last Knight” also dropped during the game and revealed some tantalizing clues about the new movie, including the...

  • Scene from ‘The The Fate of the Furious’ trailer
    Latest ‘Fate of the Furious’ trailer shows more wide-body muscle

    Most of the ads run during Super Bowl LI were forgettable, but among the mundane was the explosive trailer for “The Fate of the Furious,” movie number eight in the ever-popular Fast and the Furious franchise. The first trailer dropped in December and gave us a glimpse of a wide-body...

  • 2018 Dodge Durango SRT, 2017 Chicago auto show
    2018 Dodge Durango SRT video preview

    Jeep has the shockingly powerful Grand Cherokee SRT, but its three-row cousin hasn't had the SRT treatment. Until now. It's time for the most powerful, fastest, and most ridiculous Dodge Durango yet, the 2018 Dodge Durango SRT. Let's start with the important bits, what makes it go: Under the hood...

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