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0Video: Custom 12-cylinder 'LS12' motor will blow your mind and doors off 1368561600
So there you are, minding your own business on the internet when a forum user called "V12Baker" uploads a picture of the engine block above. But you're on the LS1 forum, a site devoted to the legendary V8s made by General Motors, and that's a V12?! V12Baker explains that he sliced two LS1 engines ...
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Quick Spin: 2013 Hurst Edition Trans Am 1368557880
No, you didn't read our title wrong. This is a 2013 model year Trans Am, and yes, that is a Pontiac logo affixed to the front of the car. But don't bother dialing up your local General Motors dealership just yet. This is the new Hurst Edition Trans Am created by the Trans Am Depot located in ...
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Video: 650-hp Hennessey Jeep Grand Cherokee does 0-60 in 3.9 seconds [w/video] 1368536400
Hennessey Performance Engineering has created an HPE650 package for the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 fitted with the 6.4-litre Hemi engine. When it leaves the showroom floor it has 470 horsepower and gets from 0-60 miles per hour (0-96 km/h) in 4.8 seconds. When it leaves Hennessey's garage floor ...
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Report: Flying car falls from sky and crashes [w/video] 1368452700
try{document.getElementById("fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-14796").style.display="none";}catch(e){} Flying cars aren't on their way, flying cars are here. If we're going to see more of them in the air above us, we're also going to see more images like the one above, in which a Maverick flying car ...
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Featured: Seat Leon Cup Racer for Worthersee is one bad machine 1368396000
In the 'Just Because It's Awesome' category we have the Seat Leon Cup Racer, a kerb-stomping trinket the Spanish brand took to the GTI Wörthersee gathering. A transformation worthy of Marvel turns the recognizable five-door hatch underneath into a test-bed for a 325-horsepower sprint or ...
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Report: Dean Jeffries, legendary customizer, dies at 80 1368381600
Vehicle customization has played a huge role in car culture in North America, and Dean Jeffries was perhaps one of the most well-known builders, painters and customizers of his time. Hemmings is reporting that Jeffries died on Sunday at the age of 80. He leaves behind a legacy in the ...
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Featured: Star Trek van up for sale is a custom Sci-Fi nerd dream vehicle 1368034200
With the release date of the summer blockbuster movie Star Trek Into Darkness being pushed up to May 16 instead of May 17, it seems the current owner of this 1978 GMC Star Trek van couldn't have picked a better time to put his retro Trekkie-mobile up for sale online. The hopeful seller is clearly ...
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Featured: Drive-it-like-you-stole-it screwdriver car key will entertain police 1367934300
If you sorely miss the childhood game of 'cops and robbers' and want to resurrect that butterfly-in-your-stomach feeling every time you jump in your car, Hahabird.com might have the dramatic solution you've been searching for. Thanks to their creative 'srewdriver key' you can now feel your ...
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Featured: McLaren MP4-12C gets camouflage wrap, gives spy photogs nervous twitch 1367853300
Could this be a first? Normally we wait in anticipation of the camouflage to be taken off prototype cars, but Greenwich Patch is reporting that a car dealership has taken a production car back to its prototype days. The McLaren MP4-12C above was painted gray, but you'd never know it because the ...
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Video: Local Motors picks first-ever winner of motorcycle design challenge [w/video] 1367712000
Local Motors, the company behind the Rally Fighter, briefly took its four wheels off the dirt and put two on the road for a crowd-sourced motorcycle project. Working with fellow Arizona company DP Custom Cycles, Local Motors invited its community to design a motorbike based on the ...
