Feel the "Wind" in your hair (and your nooks and crannies) as Renault launches 12 second "race the roof" stripping contest
5. Mazda on the move with new design language
Ever since the launch of its first passenger car Mazda has explored the concept of motion; this concept, it says explores the tension inherent in physical movement.
6. Volvo tax-busters set for SA launch
Volvo will introduce five new low-emission DRIVe models in South Africa by mid 2011 - and at least two of them will be under the 120g/km threshold.
7. Hand-held device jump-starts battery
Got a car, motorbike or boat that tends to stand around for long periods with the battery going flat? Powertraveller says it has the answer for you.
8. Suter 'shattered' at death of Japanese rider
Suter Racing was "completely shattered" at the death of 19-year-old Shoya Tomizawa in Sunday's Moto2 race at the San Marino GP.
9. BMW Five a bouncer in a business suit
The sixth-generation BMW 5 Series feels closer to a shortened Seven than a stretched 3 Series, says Johannesburg correspondent DENIS DROPPA.
10. Chandhok impressed by Korea track
Hispania Racing's Karun Chandhok gives the Korean Grand Prix venue the thumbs-up after being the first F1 driver to drive it.
11. McNish hails Audi's Le Mans win
Allan McNish overcomes the disappointment of missing a third Le Mans 24-hour win to hail his Audi team's one-two-three finish.
12. Rossi leads tributes to Tomizawa
The newest electric aircraft to take flight is a tiny airplane from a big airplane company. The Cri-Cri, developed by Airbus’ parent company, EADS, made its first flight Thursday at Le Bourget airport near Paris.
The Cri-Cri is based on an existing design that uses two small gasoline engines. EADS swapped the gasoline engines with four [...]
25. Video: Monster Truck Makes Monster Crash
Joe Sylvester wants to set the record for longest jump made by a monster truck. Doing so will require beating the 202-foot jump Dan Runte made at the wheel of Bigfoot in 1999.
Clearly he has more work to do, as a practice attempt on Tuesday in his truck Bad Habit did not go well. Sylvester [...]
26. Feds Push ‘Active Transportation’ for Healthy Communities
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on a mission to help create a transportation system that makes us fitter, not fatter.
The agency, which promotes and protects public health and safety, is pushing active transportation systems in a big way, and it’s fitting in light of the undeniable fact that the United States is [...]
27. From Washington to Mexico on 12.4 Gallons Of Diesel
Craig Henderson drove 1,478 miles from from Blaine, Washington, to Mexico without stopping to refuel, burning just 12.4 gallons of diesel for a stunning 119.1 mpg.
And he did it in a car he originally designed in 1984.
Henderson rolled into Chula Vista, California, at the wheel of the Avion four days after he left home. The [...]
28. New Circuit Unveiled for U.S. Grand Prix
The organizers of the United States Grand Prix have unveiled the design of the all-new track in Austin, Texas. The Formula 1 circuit will host the USGP beginning in 2012 and is scheduled to continue until 2021.
The new purpose-built race course is 3.4 miles long with more than 20 turns winding through a 900-acre site [...]
29. Ford Focus EV Will Use Liquid-Cooled Battery
Small but interesting nugget of news out of Ford, which says it will use a liquid-cooled and heated battery in the Ford Focus Electric we’ll see late next year.
Ford is still developing the car, but the prototype we drove had a 23 kilowatt-hour lithium ion pack, which makes it about the size of the air-cooled [...]
30. Two-Wheeled Zerotracer EV Is a Wild Ride
We’re jealous of the folks who get to drive the Zerotracer. It’s a sporty, two-seat, enclosed motorcycle that weighs less than 1,400 pounds, can do zero to 100 km/hr (62 mph) in less than 4.5 seconds and has a top speed of 150 mph.
The Oerlikon Solar Zerotracer is among the cool zero-emission vehicles competing in [...]
31. Firearms, Boots and Dirty Cars as Canvases
Editor’s note: Jeremy Hart, an occasional contributor to Wired.com, is driving around the world with a few mates in a pair of Ford Fiestas. He’s filing occasional reports from the road.
The Wild West is still wild.
As we pull into Scottsdale, Arizona, during Ford Fiesta World Tour 2010, we get word there’s automatic gunfire coming into [...]
32. Electric Motorcycle Entrepreneur Killed In Crash
Matt Dieckmann believed the future is electric, and he died hoping to prove it.
Dieckmann, the 29-year-old founder of Electric Race Bikes, was killed Monday following a collision with a car in his hometown of Santa Rosa, California. He reportedly was testing a new electric motorcycle at the time.
We met Dieckmann, pictured above on the left, [...]
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