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Alone in his workshop at home, Greg Dunham crafted the world’s largest motorcycle. Not only does the giant machine look amazing, it actually drives!

The motorcycle is is 3.429 m (11 ft 3 in) tall to the top of handlebars, 6.187 m (20 ft 4 in) long and weighs 2.948 tonnes (6,500 lb). It is powered [...]

A camera attached on slot cars, takes a great video from various slot car racings. This video is just great and unique.

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Tether cars have been running their circuitous routes for decades, but never have they been like this. The mind-boggling 200mph speed of this nitro-fueled mini-dragster is downright frightening. The pointy projectile looks more like a puny land-based powerboat than a model car. Hooked up to a central hub with a steel cable that we hope [...]

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Carbonyte UK, is a company known for the Ferrari Limo project, that took a perfectly good Ferrari 360, cut it in half and then stretched it almost nine feet to make a limo.

Even by that measure, stretching a Smart ForTwo to 17 feet is over the top. The car will be used for advertising and [...]

Ford is going to introduce two new traffic alert systems in their 2009 cars: the Cross Traffic Alert and the Blind Spot Monitoring System, which will alert drivers of potential collision targets using radar technology. Which these new gadgets, instead of having to check the mirror and ignore any cars coming from behind before changing [...]

The edifice for the spot began with a tour of BMW’s M facility in Munich, where the IdeaCity crew studied the inner workings of the M3’s 4.0-liter V8. They had three complete engines shipped out to Belgium, where manifolds were cut, cylinders were shaved and lighting holes were drilled to mount special cameras, lenses and [...]

Will Foster never has too much trouble getting a parking spot for his second vehicle. After all, who’s going to argue with a guy driving a half-scale Panzer tank complete with a working air cannon?
Roughly the size of a small car, Foster’s tank can reach speeds of around 20 mph with its three-cylinder diesel engine. [...]

While this motorcycle may not have serious racing horsepower, have plenty of processing speed, because this is not a rideable motorcycle, but a fully functional PC! he computer cycle was built by Russian casemodder Dennis Ilyin (a.k.a. “Xooler”) in a recent NVIDIA-sponsored case building contest. If you can believe it, Dennis only won the second [...]