This Bizarre Rig Is How Bugatti Makes Sure Its 1500 Horsepower Engines Don’t Explode
Running a car on the NA1 4rburgring poses some logistical challenges for carmakers. Crashes , more crashes and car-consuming fires come to mind.
Category: Autos
We Asked The Top Gear Hosts Weird Questions About Cars
This Sunday the new season of Top Gear starts in the U.S., and I can't imagine anyone just jumping into and watching something like that without proper preparation. That's why I took it upon myself to cross the ocean, find the Top Gear set, and corner each of the three hosts and ask them the important questions.
Tesla Model S Torched In Weird Supercharger Fire
Tesla is investigating what appears to be an unusual fire that torched a Model S P85 at a Supercharger station in Shanghai. And the vehicle reportedly wasn't charging at the time it set fire.
Remember How Weird The Audi R8 Looked When It Came Out?
The Audi R8 is now a stable member of the not-quite-supercars club, so it's heard to really remember just how bizarre it looked when it went on sale a decade ago. The longer you looked at it, the more it looked like some sort of laffy taffy version of a normal car.
Patent Filing Shows Off Weird Mutant Ferrari LaFerrari
The Ferrari LaFerrari is no doubt a stunning machine, but if you were worried it looked too, uh, traditional for whatever reason, it looks like Ferrari's Special Projects division is cooking up something weird enough to suit your needs. The European patent filing featuring the alien mothership of Ferraris was filed in August of 2016, according to CarScoops , and beyond that there isn't much detail.
I Have A Weird Idea How To Get Data Into Cars, But I Have No Idea What To Use It For
While David Tracy and I were driving up to a stunning secret car collection , I managed to take a curve sort of wide and run over some rumble strips. That got us thinking about rumble strips, which got me thinking about the various musical highway projects, where grooves in the road make music when driven over.
Chevy touts Bolt as special, but not weird
... and a 960-pound battery pack underfoot. "There was an emphasis in making the car special rather than stand out as weird," said Stuart Norris, the Bolt's South Korea-based design director. "We need it to work for more than just the die-hard EV fans." ...
This rare Nissan Pao is a strange but noble choice for a Texas daily driver
Texas is more than a place. It's a lifestyle. It's a state of mind. It's a lifestyle/state of mind with a number of automotive trim packages named after it, and none of them are tiny retro-flavored Japanese hatchbacks.
This Is The Last Weird Air-Cooled Volkswagen You Never Heard Of I’ll Tell You About In 2016
... this car is from Uruguay, the world's leading country in the automotive field of taking a familiar car and then doing weird things to it with fiberglass . Now, I know I said that the car that looks like a shortened, two-door VW Type 181 isn't some ...
Why This Porsche 911 Turbo With Weird Pod Headlamps Was So, So Rare
... in the trippy, wavy checkerboard Pasha interior and you're basically driving around in a disco-era acid trip. That weird lights-up Kermit face of the 928 really only worked on the 928. Later cars, not so much. I covet the 968 , for example, for that ...
There’s Something Weird About Faraday Future’s Drag Racing Teasers
The best look we have at the potential of Faraday Future's first car is a series of drag races the company showed off beating a Bentley Bentayga, Ferrari 488 and Tesla Model X. But there's something that's weird about the drag races themselves. Watch the full teaser here, showing the FF prototype whupping butt.