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Elio Is A 100 Mph, 84 Mpg Three Wheeled Car For $6800 – And We Want One Bad!

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Sure, three-wheeled commuter cars still look odd. Despite that, you can’t deny they likely have a place on our future roads, with new ones popping up on a steady basis. The Elio, a new entrant to this half-motorcycle, half-car category, might be one of the most interesting. Housing a 1-liter 3-cylinder front-mounted engine, the Elio puts out a paltry 70 hp. While that may not sound much, it’s enough to push the lightweight ride to respectable speeds of 100 mph [...]

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Aston Martin CC100 Speedster Brings Retro Cool, Sporty Lines

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We love Aston Martin cars for the way they combine beauty and power without going overboard on the styling. Their cars, for the most part, really look like they belong on the road instead of an oval track. The Aston Marton CC100 Speedster changes that, yet we still can’t help but adore. Built as a one-off, the vehicle literally looks like it was dreamed up as an ideal track-bound racing beast by space-age bachelors of the 1960s while they got [...]

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Fieldsleeper Brings Unique Style To Your Camper Home

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Sure, you can take an awesome trailer to your next backwoods getaway this summer, but why camp out like everybody else? Stand out from the crowd of boring mobile homes with the Tonke Fieldsleeper 1, a camper that looks like a cross between an old-world train cart and the barn where your granddad keeps the horses in his farm. Or something equally as unusual. Designed by Marten van Soest, the camper can be loaded and unloaded onto any truck (well, [...]

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JVC Kenwood MDV-737 HUD Projects Your NAV System Next To The Rearview Mirror

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That turn-by-turn NAV system on your smartphone sure works great. All that looking down to check it, though, means you’re spending even more time with your eyes off the road. The JVC Kenwood MDV-737 HUD can help with that, giving you a see-through heads-up display right next to the rearview mirror. Instead of looking down, you have just to look slightly upwards, so you don’t have to lose sight of the road ahead. While that doesn’t sound like a giant [...]

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Loopwheels Are Bike Wheels With Built-In Suspension

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We’re pretty sure there’s no need to reinvent the bicycle wheel. That, of course, won’t stop anyone from trying to and the Loopwheels definitely seem like a nice upgrade. Designed by Jelly Products, it’s an erstwhile standard 20-inch bicycle wheel with a twist: it comes with a suspension system built into the wheel itself. Switch them in place of your bike’s standard wheels and enjoy the most stable ride you can imagine. Or, better yet, use them for your folding [...]

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EMX Is An E-Bike With No Pedals, Gears Nor Chains

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We’ve seen an ever-growing field of electric bicycles that teeter the line between bicycles and motorcycles, from the high-speed Stealth Bomber to the downhill-going FX Mountain Moto. Might as well add another one to this interesting lineup: the motocross-inspired EMX. At first glance, the electric mountain bike looks like your standard pedal-assist MTB. Except, when you look closer, there’s actually no pedals to assist. In fact, there’s not even any chain or gears, which makes the “bicycle” classification really iffy. [...]

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Siva Cycle Atom Is A Kinetic Power Generator For Bicycles

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Taking your Glow-in-the-Dark Bicycle to work is one of your smartest ideas ever. It helped you get in better shape, saved you a small fortune in gas, and allows you to act like a stuck-up treehugger while only feeling half-pretentious. Now, if only it can get you laid, too, it will be your smartest idea ever. While the Atom can’t help with that, it will let you reap one more benefit from your daily bicycle runs: using all that pedaling [...]

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ONDA Cycle Brings Drifts And Spins In A Tiny Recumbent Trike

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You know those tricycles designed for kids aged 3 or 4 years old? Yeah, that’s, pretty much, what the ONDA Cycle is, except it’s for grown adults. Well, that’s not exactly a fair comparison. Although it does look like a child’s trike, the unique contraption is actually an incredibly versatile stunt trike that should make it an entirely new experience of fun on wheels. The team even goes so far as to claim it can be used to commute to [...]

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Mazzanti Evantra V8 Pairs Super Aggressive Styling, Power To Spare

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You caught sight of the Evantra last December, but didn’t quite get the full details of the next supercar addition to your luxury fleet. Well, that ends now as Mazzanti Automobili shows off the production version of its Mazzanti Evantra V8. Sporting lines that look like it came out of a comic book fanboy’s wet dreams, this is one heck of a looker. No understand elegance here — just pure superhero-level show muscles that make for as busy an aesthetic [...]

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Insanity Werewolf Helmet Is Actually DOT Certified

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We’d be lying if we said the Insanity Werewolf Helmet is the sleekest motorcycle headgear we’ve ever seen. It’s like a badly-made mask that, somehow, managed to look awesomely creepy. And it works. A half-face helmet, it puts the likeness of an ugly werewolf (or a really ugly troll, it could go either way) over the the top of your head, but leaves your face open so you can get a clear view of the road. Seriously, it looks like [...]

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Blackprints: Stylish Vehicle Prints For Classy Gearheads

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Looking for automotive prints to hang on that blank space on your wall? Skip the gawdy poster prints and grab yourself one of these stylish Blackprints from Sabrina Chun. Designed to adorn your wall without the usual gearhead aesthetic, the photographic prints use inverse black and white imagery to capture a minimalist visual. None of the loud colors and tacky flashiness of the supercar posters that adorned your dorm room back in the day; instead, these prints will look [...]

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Detroit Electric SP:01 Wants To Eat Your Tesla Roadster

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Chances are, most of you have never heard of Detroit Electric. It’s no surprise, given that the last car to ever wear the badge came out back in 1939 — just a couple decades short of an entire century ago. That’s about to change soon with the Detroit Electric SP:01. Billed as “the fastest pure electric production car,” the two-seater clears a 0 to 60 in just 3.7 seconds and hits a top speed of 155 mph. Yep, take that [...]

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Torq Electric Roadster: If Batmobile Had Three Wheels

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I find myself conflicted about the Torq Roadster. On the one hand, it looks like a Batman vehicle. On the other, it looks like Batman’s tricycle. And I am not sure if a tricycle goes with the whole Caped Crusader persona. Made by Epic Electric Vehicles, I’m not completely sure whether it’s supposed to be classified as a motorcycle or a car. It looks like a tricycle (two wheels front, one wheel rear). And is being billed as “the electric [...]

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2014 Jaguar XKR-S GT Is Street-Legal, Track-Ready, And Built To Perform

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While raw power upgrades are always sweet for automobiles, it’s really not the only thing that matters. Sometimes, it’s the subtle changes that make the ride. That’s exactly what happened with the 2014 Jaguar XKR-S GT, which brings a whole load more performance despite running on the same powertrain as the standard XKR-S. A street legal racer that’s just as ready for the tracks, the model houses the same 5.0-liter V8 on the XKR-S that’s mated to a six-speed ZF [...]

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Espresso Veloce V12 Machine: Yes It Makes Coffee Too

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Sometimes, you just want stuff that’s literally over the top. And when it comes to appliances for brewing your steaming cup of morning sustenance, nothing comes close to the excessively over the top design of the Espresso Veloce V12 Machine. Styled to look like the grand prix engines of the 90s, it’s being billed as “the most beautifully-engineered espresso machine in the world.” While everybody else who makes fancy espresso machines will likely have something to say about that, there’s [...]

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Pro XL-C Bike Box: How You Ship Your Bike Like A Pro

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Traveling with a bike in tow isn’t an easy job. While you can use your travel bags to hold disassembled bike parts, it’s probably also the fastest way to damage expensive luggage and trunks. The Pro XL-C Bike Box should prove a better fit for the task. Made by Crate Works, it’s a shipping box designed specifically for holding all the parts of your favorite bicycle. That way, you can simply send your bike via UPS instead of lugging it [...]

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Automatic Turns Your Smartphone Into A Very Useful Car Computer

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Many fancy new cars come with fancy on-board information systems. But you can’t afford a fancy new car, so you make do with the econobox you bought second hand two years ago with no fancy computer in the dash. Don’t miss out on modern tech with Automatic, a plug-in solution that turns your smartphone into a modern car computer. Looks like a must-have cool gadget for car enthusiasts. Using a small dongle called Automatic Link that plugs into your car’s data port [...]

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2014 Rolls Royce Wraith Brings Aggressive Styling, GPS-Aided Transmission

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You got your bonus CEO money. Unfortunately, you have no time to spend it holidaying in that exclusive private island resort you’ve been meaning to visit the last two years. What to do to make yourself feel better? Just throw some of that down on the Rolls-Royce Wraith and be rolling in style, laughing at all the poor VPs who can only afford Bentleys with their bonuses. While wearing the same snobby upturned-nose attitude Rolls Royce cars have always [...]

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2014 Porsche 911 GT3 Steps It Up In All The Right Places

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The range-topping Porsche 911 couples good looks with some serious driving performance. But you’ve been driving exotics for years now and it’s just not enough to satiate your admittedly greedier cravings. The 2014 Porsche 911 GT3 just might be what gets you over the hump, delivering the pinnacle of sports car performance from the automaker. Clocking an impressive time of just under 7:30 at Nürburgring, the fifth-generation model bundles a new engine, transmission, body and chassis, making for an entirely [...]

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