Gosford on the New South Wales Central Coast is not exactly the first place you would expect to find a treasure trove of some of the world’s most exclusive and celebrated supercars, but that’s exactly what you’ll find at the Gosford Classic Car Museum. It is known as the largest […]
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For Sale: Tucker 48 ‘Torpedo’, 1 of 52 built
The Tucker 48 (aka Tucker Torpedo) is one of those cars that was dramatically ahead of its time, and we’ve just found one that’s up for sale. Ultimately doomed to fail, the car’s story is an inspiring and mysterious tale of one man’s dream to become a big player in […]
Video: Monster truck performs world first front flip
While monster trucks have a big following in Australia, in America they are an institution. Watching Bigfoot and other enormous beasts crush the landscape and destroy carcasses of other vehicles is very fun to a lot of people. Especially when those monster trucks do backflips, which were pretty cool until […]
For Sale: Ferrari 360 stretched limousine
Limousine operators generally select large sedans to take the gas-axe to and add a middle section, as they lend themselves best to the surgery and are a spacious, luxurious starting point. In the U.S, think Cadillac DeVille or Lincoln Town Car, with the Holden Statesman or Ford Fairlane historically serving […]
Top 10 car memes – March 2017
Memes have well and truly infected the internet to the point where they are everywhere. Love them or hate them here are ten of the funnier ones we’ve picked up this month to give you some Friday fun. If you have a favourite meme, send it to us or post […]
Video: RC toy Toyota HiLuxs tow full-size HiLux to recreate ad
Toyota UK has recreated a publicity stunt from the 1980s by towing a new HiLux using 15 Tamiya HiLux Bruiser remote control cars that are 1:10 scale. The Tamiya RC cars produce 23.2Nm each from their small electric motors with reduction gears and weigh 3.2kg each. That’s 348Nm of total […]
Top 10 cars with the strangest engine conversions
Engine swaps are, more often than not, to enhance a car’s power and speed. Note the Ferrari-powered Toyota 86, or GTR-engined Nissan Patrol we’ve featured, as well as the myriad small cars at Summernats 30 stuffed choc-full of V8. Sometimes, though, the motives behind a conversion are different. It could […]
Video: Subaru WRX drives down an Olympic bobsled run
Subaru and Jamaica don’t really have much in common or at least they didn’t until Subaru decided to shove the Isle of Man TT record-setting WRX down a bobsled course for some cool runnings. Modifications to the already hardcore Rex include snow tyres with 400 studs, with driver Mark Higgins […]