Watch This Motorcyclist Cling to a Car After Falling Off Bike on a Highway
All too often, car drivers ignore the possibility that there could be a motorcyclist in their blind spot, thus leading to a dangerous collision. A clip uploaded to YouTube shows what happens when a...
View ArticleSilicon Valley's DeepMap Aims to Make Better Maps for Self-Driving Cars
If self-driving cars really are the future, then Silicon Valley could turn into the next Detroit. It's full of tech companies that aim to use the copious software needs of autonomous vehicles to elbow...
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'Kraken' Is the U.S. Navy's Monster Motion-Based Research Simulator
One of the features most elaborate motion-based simulators lack are the sustained gravitational forces that can have severe effects on a vehicle's crew. That is not the case for the Navy's GL-6000...
View ArticleWatch a Guardrail Barely Save a Ford Fiesta RS Rally Car from Certain Doom
There are times in a man's life where it is totally acceptable to lose bladder (or bowel) control. This is one of those instances. As you can see in the video below, rally driver Thomasz Kasperczyk is...
View ArticleFord Lays Off 130 Workers From Ohio Truck Plant
According to several reports, Ford has laid off 130 workers from its Avon Lake, Ohio truck plant. The facility produces the F-650, F-750, and Super Duty pickups, and the cutaway/stripped E-Series van...
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Toyota's 2,000-HP Land Cruiser Sets New SUV Top Speed Record of 230 MPH
By the hammer of Thor, that's fast. Toyota's heavily-modified Land Cruiser known as the Land Speed Cruiser has blasted its way into the record books through the sheer force of its 2,000 horsepower...
View ArticleAutomotive Infotainment Systems Aren't Going Anywhere, Report Says
According to London-based IHS Markit, an information and analysis firm, there’s big growth in the near future for automotive display systems. The firm is predicting a 17 percent jump in such systems...
View ArticlePorsche Nabs LMP1 Pole Position For Belgium WEC Round
LMP1 Qualifying - Porsche factory ace Neel Jani teamed with Audi refugee Andre Lotterer to put their shared #1 919 Hybrid on the pole position for tomorrow's 6-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps. Toyota...
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U.S. Navy SEAL Dies in Somalia Raid as Pentagon Steps Up Operations
This U.S. military has suffered its first combat death in Somalia since 1993. The incident follows news, which The War Zone previously reported on, that American commanders in the region have expanded...
View ArticleDelta Apologizes After Crew Threatens Family With Jail for Not Giving Up Seats
United isn't the only airline facing blowback for making the skies less than friendly. Delta Airlines has apologized to customer Brian Schear and his family after crew members threatened Shear and his...
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Japan May Acquire Aegis Ashore To Defend Itself From North Korean Missiles
Japan has accelerated a study examining if installing the Aegis Ashore anti-ballistic missile system would be an effective means of dealing with the increasing threat of a ballistic missile barrage...
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Porsche On GTD Pole For Saturday IMSA Race At Circuit of The Americas, GTLM...
Porsche in GT Daytona - Porsche's 911 GT3R racer has again proven that it is a force to be reckoned with, and can compete with the best FIA GT3-spec cars in the world. This morning at Austin, Texas'...
View ArticleHydrogen-Powered UPS Trucks Coming to California
In collaboration with the US Department of Energy, UPS will be deploying an extended-range fuel-cell delivery truck in Sacramento, California by September of this year. It won’t strictly be a...
View ArticleDriver Seriously Injured In Truck Barrier Crash Test Gone Bad
Germans—they're just like us. Turns out for every stereotypical buttoned-down Hans obsessed with maximum efficiency, there's a crazy self-defined "entrepreneur" holding potentially deadly...
View ArticleThis Street Converted 911 GT1 Racer Is The Most Awesome Possible
Did you know that a 911 GT1 is practically already street legal? This car needed just a few things to be deemed road legal and ready for license plates; catalytic converters, street-legal tires, and a...
View ArticleOpinion: Toyota Should Buy Lotus
Lotus and Toyota are well established bedfellows. There is no shortage of Reese's commercial parodies to be made regarding their history of cooperation, which has its roots 35 years ago, when Lotus...
View ArticleWatch Ryan Tuerck Drift His Ferrari-Powered Toyota 86 Around Formula Drift...
Do you remember a while back when Ryan Tuerck built a Ferrari-powered Toyota 86 for drifting? Of course you do. Well, you can now watch his creation flying around a Formula Drift Orlando in this video...
View ArticleCheck Out This Great Astronaut-Themed Tesla Model X Commercial
Tesla is without a doubt one of the more creative automotive brands currently on the market. With that in mind, they deserve a creative commercial with all the right amounts of artistic angles,...
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Man Finds Legendary Crashed Toyota Supra On A Mountain In Japan
When I was a kid, my friends and I discovered a wrecked 1941 Oldsmobile Coupe deep in the woods behind my house. It was unbelievably cool for a seven-year-old, even if my efforts to turn it into a...
View ArticleThai Government Cancels Passport of Fugitive Red Bull Heir
Almost five years after Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya struck and killed a motorcycle cop on the streets of Bangkok and fled the scene in his Ferrari, it appears the Thai justice system is finally closing...
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