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“This thing’s gonna be a chungus!” In the northern tip of Idaho, 70-odd miles from Spokane, Washington, a magnificently silly project is underway: a colossal batpod of a motorcycle with a KTM motor, monster truck wheels, and hydraulic steering.Continue… Continue reading KTM-powered “Monster Chopper” gets hydraulic steering
Internal combustion engines have still got a few punches left in them. Case in point: Kiwi drifter “Mad Mike” Whiddett has unveiled “the wildest drift car I could think of,” built around the world’s first 5-rotor Wankel rotary engine.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading “Mad Mike” unveils world’s first 5-rotor Wankel in wild drift car
One of the world’s most important companies seems set to implode and lose its entire team, after a bizarre chain of events beginning with the unexplained sacking of CEO Sam Altman. The future of AI – and maybe humanity itself – swings in the balance.Co… Continue reading Utter chaos at OpenAI puts GPT in jeopardy – why should you care?
Electric motors don’t much care whether they’re going forwards or backwards – certainly not as much as passengers tend to. So the latest Guinness World Record for Rimac’s electric Nevera hypercar is the fastest speed ever recorded in reverse.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Rimac Automobili, World Records, World’s Fastest, Crazy, Hypercar
Continue reading Rimac sets outrageous world record for the fastest speed in reverse
A Swiss student team has absolutely smashed the record for the world’s fastest-accelerating EV. Surreal-looking video shows driver Kate Maggetti rocketing from 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in a staggering time just under one second. Here’s how they did it.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: World’s Fastest, Record-breaking, World Records, ETH Zurich, Electric Vehicles, Crazy
Continue reading 0-100 km/h in less than a second: Swiss EV team destroys world record
The world’s most powerful production V12 engine now has a home. Danish concern Zenvo Automotive has plonked it in a brand-new pair of unobtanium hypercars, aided and abetted by electric motors for seriously silly power, acceleration and speed.Continue … Continue reading Zenvo’s all-new Aurora V12 hybrid hypercar rocks lots of big holes
Finnish company 18 Wheels has prototyped one of the most bizarre off-roaders we’ve encountered: an electric all-terrain vehicle with … well, the perfect number of wheels for a company with that name. Which is lucky, really. Imagine if it only had 16!… Continue reading 18-wheel-drive electric ATV: Ride the flying eyebrow
We haven’t been paying much attention to the custom motorcycle world lately, but this jaw-dropping project demanded our attention. It’s a Hayabusa engine wrapped in a spectacular titanium frame, swingarm, exhaust, subframe and bodywork.Continue Reading… Continue reading World’s first all-titanium motorcycle is spectacular, and nearly done
Take one dynamically unstable, highly dangerous vehicle platform: the venerable quad bike, and juice it up with more than a thousand horsepower, and you’ve got an absolute widowmaker. But is it the ultimate widowmaker? Let’s assess the competition.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Quadbikes, Crazy, World’s Fastest
Continue reading Terrifying vehicles: Where does Engler’s 1,100-hp quad bike rank?
Red Bull had to call on the engineering capabilities of its Formula One team to pull this insane gag off; the wooden skate bowl originally built for the shot was too heavy to lift into the air, at around six tons.Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, Tra… Continue reading Lunatic does BMX stunts in airborne skate bowl at 2,000 feet