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Fat-Fueled Ford Is Biodiesel Biohazard
Fetched: December 23rd, 2008, 3:30am CST by Keith Barry
A Beverly Hills plastic surgeon used fat collected from liposuctions to fuel his SUV? Uh-huh. Sure he did.
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An Apple-Flavored Car Design From Britain
Fetched: December 18th, 2008, 1:48pm CST by Keith Barry
If Steve Jobs designed a car, it might look something like the autonomous shape-shifting runabout that Anthony Jannarelly dreamed up.
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Limited Edition Viper Makes It Hurst So Good
Fetched: December 17th, 2008, 10:02am CST by Keith Barry
Gearheads have been wrapping their hands around Hurst shifters for 50 years, and to celebrate that golden anniversary Hurst Performance Vehicles is building a limited edition hot rod based on the already-awesome Viper SRT10. Details are sketchy but just hearing the words "Hurst" and "Viper" in the same sentence has our blood octane level at an all-time high.
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Study Proves Talkers Are Lousy Drivers
Fetched: December 11th, 2008, 12:53am CST by Keith Barry
Research proves what we all suspected — it isn't the fact you're on a phone that makes you a menace behind the wheel. It's the fact you're engaged in a conversation. The brain simply can't handle simultaneously holding a conversation and focusing on the road.
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You've Pedaled a Long Way, Baby
Fetched: December 10th, 2008, 2:38am CST by Keith Barry
The new electric bike from Sanyo shows just how far e-bikes have come since the days of the Sinclair C5.
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Get Your Own Vintage Flying Car for $3.5 Million
Fetched: December 8th, 2008, 1:38pm CST by Keith Barry
Get your hands on one of only six Aerocars ever built, and soar above traffic at 110 mph. Have a mechanic check out the 1950s car of the future before you try to beat the commute, though.
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We All Live in a Solar Submarine
Fetched: December 2nd, 2008, 4:24pm CST by Keith Barry
A Swiss firm with an established record of solar projects goes way out in left field with a proposal to build sun-powered subs. Of course, Dubai is the first place it expects to deploy one.
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Hot Rodding Comes to Hybrids
Fetched: December 1st, 2008, 3:44pm CST by Keith Barry
Plenty of hybrid hackers are souping up their rides to combine fuel efficiency with high performance -- and showing off the results from Bonneville to LeMans. The technology is bound to trickle down from the race track to the showroom.
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Hentai Fans Airbrush a Mangallardo
Fetched: November 18th, 2008, 1:33pm CST by Keith Barry
A businessman who made a fortune in hentai covers his Lamborghini with manga. It's so cool we'll forgive him for doing the same thing to a Lancia Stratos.
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Study Shows Drivers Feel Free to Ignore Speed Limits
Fetched: November 14th, 2008, 11:46pm CST by Keith Barry
A Purdue University researcher finds more than one-third of the drivers he surveyed see nothing wrong with going 20 mph over the speed limit. That's why so many speed limits are artificially low.
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Back to the Future With Lincoln's Keyless Entry Pad
Fetched: November 12th, 2008, 2:48pm CST by Keith Barry
The MKS is a nice car. But the touchless keypad on the door is about as technologically advanced as a Walkman and as cool as a Member's Only jacket.
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Save the Planet — and Your Ass — in an E85 Apocalypsemobile
Fetched: November 8th, 2008, 9:39pm CST by Keith Barry
Conquest Vehicles rolls into the SEMA show with an armored SUV as luxurious as it is absurd.
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A Scythe for Sore Eyes
Fetched: November 7th, 2008, 3:37am CST by Keith Barry
The guys who have pimped so many rides dropped some bad acid before designing the 1,005-horsepower Scythe, a crazy custom car that redefines ugly.
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Drive if You Dare: The World's Scariest Cars
Fetched: November 1st, 2008, 7:11pm CDT by Keith Barry
Autopia salutes Halloween by presenting some of the most hideous cars ever to roll off an assembly line. Which one would you drive, if you could? Really? Tell us all about it, then.
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UPS to Roll Out Hydraulic Hybrids
Fetched: October 30th, 2008, 2:36pm CDT by Keith Barry
Proving that Brown can go green, UPS placed an order for seven hydraulic hybrid delivery vehicles to be introduced between 2009 and 2010. Wait, what's a hydraulic hybrid?
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Car Buyers Predict Presidential Race
Fetched: October 27th, 2008, 2:21pm CDT by Keith Barry
Car-buying trends predict the outcome of the upcoming presidential election.
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Giant Homemade Chinese Transformers Kick Bot
Posted: October 17th, 2008, 12:57pm CDT by Keith Barry
A fanboy known only as Mr. Zhu uses junked cars and scrap metal to gloriously celebrate the action figures that changed the world.
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iPod and Bluetooth Taking Over New Cars
Posted: October 14th, 2008, 9:00am CDT by Keith Barry
For the first time ever, just about every car that rolls out of a showroom features iPod and Bluetooth connectivity as automakers finally figure out that people love gadgets.
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South African Electric Car the Crown Joule of Paris Auto Show
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 3:41pm CDT by Keith Barry
On the 15th anniversary of Nelson Mandela receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, South Africa is gaining attention for another world-friendly achievement: This time, it's an electric car from Cape Town-based Optimal Energy.
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McCain Drives a Chick Car; at Least Palin's Ride Is Cool
Posted: October 1st, 2008, 12:51pm CDT by Keith Barry
The Obama campaign misses the point. Who cares if McCain owns foreign cars. One of them is a chick car!
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Ford Releases Flash of Genius 2: Damage Control
Posted: September 30th, 2008, 6:00pm CDT by Keith Barry
The movie makes Ford look like a cold and heartless company. The automaker's response only reinforces the perception.
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Big Honkin' EV Hauls 345 Tons
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 5:03am CDT by Keith Barry
Caterpillar builds a ginormous electric-drive dump truck so excavating vast swaths of land can be just a bit more environmentally friendly.
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Nissan Keyfob Phone — Ready for 2004
Posted: September 24th, 2008, 11:00pm CDT by Keith Barry
The Japanese automaker develops what it says is the world's first phone that can unlock your car and start your engine. Too bad it looks so prehistoric.
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Hi-Ho Honda! Musical Road Plays Lone Ranger Theme
Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 6:08pm CDT by Keith Barry
America's only melody road is paved over after people complain its version of the William Tell Overture sounds more like a cacophony than a symphony. Maybe "Drive My Car" would have been a better choice.
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Coast-to-Coast in 36 Hours Burning BioWillie
Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 6:56am CDT by Keith Barry
Willie Run '08 hits the road with one diesel Volkswagen, two condom catheters and 15 cans of biodiesel.
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iPhone App Shifts Hypermiling Up to iPermiling
Posted: September 18th, 2008, 11:00pm CDT by Keith Barry
A new iPhone app tells you, in real time, just how inefficient a driver you are and how much gas you're wasting.
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No Priuses Allowed at Hybrids and Harleys for Obama Rally
Posted: September 18th, 2008, 5:41am CDT by Keith Barry
American-made-hybrids-only rule highlights the challenges of making Detroit relevant again.
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Flower Power: Run Your Ride on a Wild Weed
Posted: September 16th, 2008, 7:47am CDT by Keith Barry
Stinkweed is the new switchgrass, and the next great thing in biofuel. Maybe.
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Peterbilt Fuel Cell Means No Idling When Idle
Posted: September 11th, 2008, 11:00pm CDT by Keith Barry
Fuel cells let truckers run the air conditioning, watch TV and keep the lights on in the truck stop without spewing exhaust throughout the night.
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Toyota Plug-In Now Testing in Great Britain
Posted: September 11th, 2008, 4:31pm CDT by Keith Barry
Toyota test drivers smugly avoid London's congestion fees as they test a fleet of plug-in Prius hybrids.
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New Lightweight Mazda Is a SISSy
Posted: September 11th, 2008, 6:27am CDT by Keith Barry
Mazda will put a pretty trick stop-start system in its cars next year, and will use lighter plastic in the interiors to help boost fuel economy.
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Diesel Volvo DRIVe Gets 53 MPG, and We Can't Have One
Posted: September 10th, 2008, 5:59am CDT by Keith Barry
Volvo eco-mods three models and gives them super-efficient diesels.
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EV Maker Detroit Electric Is Back Again, Again
Posted: September 8th, 2008, 7:02am CDT by Keith Barry
A name from the dawn of the auto industry is back and could be building electric cars with Malaysian automaker Proton within a year.
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Mon Dieu! Citroën's Psychedelic Hynos Will Fry Your Brain
Posted: September 5th, 2008, 4:58am CDT by Keith Barry
One look at the Hypnos concept vehicle has us convinced someone's tripping in Citroën's interior design department.
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Chrysler Plug-In Hybrid Revealed (to Dealers)!
Posted: September 4th, 2008, 11:16pm CDT by Keith Barry
Chrysler says it's got "producible prototypes" of a plug-in hybrid with a 300-mile range. We'll have to take its word for it, because it's showing them only to a few dealers.
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Science Proves Exotic Cars Turn Women On
Posted: September 4th, 2008, 12:07pm CDT by Keith Barry
A British psychologist proves Maseratis, Lamborghinis and Ferraris get women hot and econoboxes leave them cold.
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Finally, a Clean Subway Station Bathroom
Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 9:00am CDT by Keith Barry
A Scottish artist known as Travis the Trannyboi so loved New York's DeKalb Avenue subway station that he recreated it. In his bathroom.
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Toyota's Solar Car Carrier
Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 2:00am CDT by Keith Barry
Japan's largest shipping line is spending $1.4 million developing a solar-diesel hybrid cargo ship that will carry new Toyotas to the United States.
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Hyundai Going Electric With Hybrids and Plug-Ins
Posted: August 31st, 2008, 11:00pm CDT by Keith Barry
The Korean automaker's got a slate of gas-electric cars it plans to start rolling out by 2010, and it predicts Korean battery tech will be on par with Japan's within five years.
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Impress for Less With These 5 Rides
Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 10:00am CDT by Keith Barry
Want to impress people but don't have a lot of cash? These five rides will have everyone thinking you're eco-conscious, cool or otherwise highfalutin without breaking the bank.
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Chrysler's In-Car WiFi Won't Change Where You Surf ... Yet
Posted: August 21st, 2008, 2:00pm CDT by Keith Barry
Chrysler's UConnect system brings the Internet to your dashboard, but don't expect it to change the world. It'll remain a niche item until WiMax comes along.
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With China Rising, Detroit Needs Engineers ASAP
Posted: August 15th, 2008, 7:22am CDT by Keith Barry
China has 10 times more engineering students than America does. That does not bode well for Detroit, which could soon see the best automotive innovations stamped "Made in China."
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Lotus Omnivore Runs On Anything — Even Southern Comfort
Posted: August 14th, 2008, 6:04am CDT by Keith Barry
Lotus Engineering develops a two-stroke engine that runs on just about anything short of puppy smiles and children's dreams and puts it in a car that smokes the Exige S.
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Chrysler, Near Death, Readies for a Savior
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 4:55am CDT by Keith Barry
The struggling automaker insists it isn't for sale, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
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Avoid the Highway to Hell With SafeRoadMaps.org
Posted: August 7th, 2008, 12:06pm CDT by Keith Barry
A mashup of Google Earth and federal traffic safety statistics tracks fatalities for just about any street in the country so you can know if your town's got its own Parkway of Peril.
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Massachusetts Pulls the Plug on ZAP's EVs
Posted: August 1st, 2008, 10:21am CDT by Keith Barry
Regulators say the electric three-wheeled ZAP Xebra isn't quite a car and it isn't quite a motorcycle and tell their owners to take them off the road.
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These Are Our Favorite Car Designers. Tell Us Yours
Posted: August 1st, 2008, 2:00am CDT by Keith Barry
Car designers are like musicians, and the best cars, like the best music, stir the soul. Here are some that flip our switch. Tell us who flips yours, and submit pics of their work.
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Bus Ridership Explodes in the Hinterlands
Posted: July 29th, 2008, 9:52pm CDT by Keith Barry
Even in small-town America, people are leaving the car at home and taking the bus. But with ridership rising alongside fuel prices, some mass transit systems are having to raise fares or cut service to make a buck.
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Tesla Crash!
Posted: July 28th, 2008, 11:00pm CDT by Keith Barry
The owner of Roadster No. 6 takes delivery of his new toy... and promptly crashes it. What's it cost to repair carbon fiber, anyway?
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Blowing Up a $60,000 S.U.V. to Save the Planet
Posted: July 24th, 2008, 2:09pm CDT by Keith Barry
Ryan Mickle doesn't just hate his wallet-sucking, carbon-spewing, planet-killing Range Rover. He wants it dead. And he wants you to tell him how to kill it.
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A Week of Car Shows, a Century of Transportation
Posted: July 21st, 2008, 1:45pm CDT by Keith Barry
A week's worth of car shows celebra