Collaborate Disseminate
A sixteen-year-old driver has set a new Guinness World Record for “fastest vehicle slalom,” and Porsche now has a new performance metric to brag about for its 718 Spyder as the most agile car on the planet.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, Transpor… Continue reading Sixteen-year-old sets world’s fastest slalom record for Porsche
The Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court Palace in the UK is an extraordinary event that blends high society with all sorts of fascinating auto machinery. But among more than a century’s worth of motoring history, one machine really rang the bell on o… Continue reading The Leyat Helica propeller car: A wonderfully bad idea
To American riders, the Trail 125 will look like a slightly wacky, semi-scramblerized version of the venerable Cub, something like a light off-road scooter. But any Australian biker that sees one will be swept away in a flood of memories.Continue Readi… Continue reading New Honda Trail 125 becomes heir to a legacy of Aussie shenanigans
The more we work to get emissions down from motor vehicles and power generation, the more we’ll have to start looking at non-combustion sources of emissions – and a new Yale study suggests that asphalt, so ubiquitous in our modern cities, continues to … Continue reading Yale study finds dangerous emissions from asphalt long after it’s laid
Gordon Murray’s T.50, with its record-smashing Cosworth V12 and fan-forced aerodynamics, is a truly fascinating car. And if you thought Murray, a storied veteran of Formula One, was going to build such a beast and not take it racing, you’re nuts. There… Continue reading Gordon Murray announces outrageous race-focused T.50s supercar
Mercedes-Benz is taking its flagship luxury limousine up a notch, and throwing the kitchen sink at it in the process. From rear wheel steering, to body language interpretation, to voice control in 27 languages, it’s an exercise in total opulence.Contin… Continue reading New Mercedes-Benz S-Class gets a total makeover with 4-wheel steering
Last week, British company Vertical Aerospace unveiled a new electric VTOL air taxi design, moving out of the realms of simple multicopters and into the efficient, complex, longer-range world of tilt-rotor aircraft.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, T… Continue reading Vertical Aerospace’s Tim Williams on the new VA-1X air taxi
Panasonic’s S1R and S1H are absolute full-frame mirrorless monsters, but they’re also as big and hefty as an old-school DSLR body. The new S5, on the other hand, packs the same 35-mm sensor – and the vast majority of those vaunted S-series capabilities… Continue reading Panasonic S5 is a full-frame photo/video monster in a compact body
A German driver has set a blistering new lap record for the Nurburgring Nordschliefe in a variable cab tractor. Without the use of racing slicks, Christian Menzel was able to slash the previous record – held by a Porsche – by more than half.Continue Re… Continue reading Claas concept tractor smashes Nurburgring record for farm equipment
Otto Aviation claims its odd-looking Celera 500L “bullet plane” is “the biggest thing to happen to the aviation and travel industries in 50 years,” and that its extreme fuel economy could make private flights as affordable as regular commercial air tra… Continue reading Remarkable low-drag “bullet plane” aims to democratize private flight