When you think automobiles and emissions, you generally think internal combustion engines. Gasoline, diesel and smog-choked cities. While exhaust fumes make up the bulk of particulate emissions, brakes and tires are also significant contributors, with brake dust being a huge offender. Reducing brake dust could have a significant effect on a vehicle’s overall impact on […]
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Turn a Garage into a Toy Chest With the 2018 Camaro Hot Wheels Edition [Video]
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Turn a Garage into a Toy Chest With the 2018 Camaro Hot Wheels Edition [Video]
– The Chevrolet Camaro was the first Hot Wheels car when the brand began its journey back in 1968. Fifty years later, Chevrolet is keeping the partnership a two-way track. To honor the long-standing relationship (Mattel has made Hot Wheels models for just about every production Camaro), Chevrolet is releasing the 2018 Camaro Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary Edition. […]
Armor All: Rezvani Tank Is a Road-Legal 4×4 Bunker on Wheels
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Armor All: Rezvani Tank Is a Road-Legal 4×4 Bunker on Wheels
– There’s no fake skid plate. No plastic body cladding. No all-season tires on a vehicle that’s supposedly off-road capable. While mainstream automakers are building faux SUVs, the Tank appears to be a genuine multi-terrain utility truck. And it’s the brainchild of a southern California boutique supercar maker called Rezvani. – Labeled as a “tactical urban vehicle” […]
Rezvani Tank: It's like a Hot Wheels car brought to life
The car company Rezvani made a name for itself with some pretty radical sports cars with aggressive names such as Beast. But as far back as February of last year, the company has been considering adding an SUV to the lineup. Now it finally has, and it’s called Tank. The Rezvani Tank certainly bears styling […]
Osmo Mindracers puts real Hot Wheels on crazy virtual tracks
Hot Wheels will be celebrating its 50th anniversary soon and, even in an era where kids spend a lot of time on smartphones and tablets, they also still play with little die-cast metal vehicles on plastic orange track. But the venerable toy car brand can also be found on handheld devices, making its entry into […]
Review: Cabin, a Hotel on Wheels, From Los Angeles to San Francisco
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Building Speed: Nitrous-Juiced Shed on Wheels Hits 96.8 MPH [Video]
– It started with one simple decision: Fifty-two-year-old Kevin Nicks from the Chipping Norton area in Oxfordshire, England, chose not to scrap his Volkswagen Passat. Instead, he turned it into a fully functioning, street-legal shed on wheels. Screw #vanlife. The world has evolved. Or regressed; we’re not sure. – Nicks took the junker and built […]
Project SAM gave a paralyzed racer his wheels back—and he took us for a spin
Jonathan Gitlin WASHINGTON—We’ve been for rides in quite a few autonomous cars of late, but today was something a little more special. Today, we went for a ride in Project SAM—short for Semi Autonomous Motorcar. It all started back in 2000, when a promising racing career was cut short as a pre-season crash left Sam Schmidt paralyzed […]