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High School Competitors Get 849 MPG in Their Urban Concept Vehicle

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A team of students with a volunteer team of parents and community members, at Mater Dei High School in Evansville, Ind. built a single seat, aluminum framed and carbon fiber skinned car powered by a 50cc engine to compete in the Shell Eco-marathon Americas competition, where their 849 mpg result garnered first place in the Urban Concept division. As hypermile vehicles go, this … [Read more...]

1966 Chevrolet El Camino 396 with a 4 Speed and 373 12 Bolt Posi

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Here's a great muscle truck from the 60s, a 66 Chevy El Camino 396, well, it's sort of a truck for the country club set back before pickups became the luxury vehicles they are today, since it was really a Chevelle with a modified body. They're popular and have a pretty big following and, when set up like this one, a fun drive back through the muscle car era. This one is … [Read more...]

1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Brings Back the Era of Simpler Engines and Simpler Times

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Every now and then a car comes up for sale that just exemplifies everything I remember about the early American muscle car era and this 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 is about as good as it gets. This particular car is equipped with the 351 Windsor V8, 4 speed transmission, it's red with a black interior and it's beautifully restored. The cars we drove not the cars we dreamed … [Read more...]

Robot Trucks Join Autonomous Cars Leaving Drivers with Little to Do

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Several huge mines in Australia, where ore is shoveled into giant dump trucks, are now running those same trucks without drivers. Both BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, are purchasing more of these self driving giants from manufacturers Komatsu and Caterpillar. The gigantic trucks, 2 stories high and 500 tons fully loaded, shuttle back and forth following the orders of automated … [Read more...]

Automotive Illustrations by Vizualtech Design

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Several years ago, I came across some really fine renderings of a Ford F100 pickup by Bo Zolland of the Swedish design firm Vizualtech. It was a striking design that was destined to make the leap from the computer screen to the street because a client in San Diego decided it looked too good to remain nothing more then a computer visualization. I seem to remember a follow up … [Read more...]