There are essentially two types of car companies when it comes to naming cars: the ones that go for the safe approach and mostly use numbers or abstract concepts, like BMW or Mercedes-Benz, and the ones that prefer to use words for their models, be it ones that exist or made up ones. It is this...
Being a highly competitive, yet lucrative enterprise, vehicle building has led to the apparition of numerous car brands over the years. These brands either popped up on their own or were created within the existing companies, each to target various types of customers. The first category, the...
Each car in the following list tried very hard to introduce a totally new commercial niche and amass a large enough following so that it could get a proper return on the initial investment. Unfortunately, they didn't manage to hit either of those goals, but I figure they still deserve our...
Comparing it with the E53 and the E70 would be like measuring the ferocity of an angry chicken to that of a Velociraptor, so I'm not going to do that. Instead, I decided to make a step-by-step comparison between the F15, the X5 that directly precedes the recently unveiled G05. This decision...
The machine, first shown in 1954, was built by and for Donald Campbell, a speedster by trade and the only person to have ever set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). Bluebird was meant to help set a new top speed on the water. And it did more than...
Nowadays, a license plate is a piece of metal, plastic or even a screen, attached to the vehicle’s front and/or rear, meant to act as an identification means for both the car and its owner. And whereas the material or the inscriptions on them have varied over the decades, this current purpose...
Officially, NASA calls the gargantuan machines used for this task Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities, or crawler-transporter, for short. They have been around since the inception of the space program, carrying the Saturn V rockets of the Apollo missions and the space shuttles that last took...
Earlier this week, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Instagram a photo which he captioned “main body tool for the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) interplanetary spaceship.” The image shows a big cylinder with six holes in it, the template using which parts of the BRF assembly will be constructed. ...
Carmakers in particular are in the unique position of having a virtually endless supply of prank subjects, due to the nature of their business. In 2019 too, just as in the previous years, marketing and public relations departments went into overdrive and came up with announcements so ludicrous...
Some people get turned down by their crush in middle school so they spend the next decade bulking up, studying like crazy or both, just so they can show their would-be girlfriends what they're missing. Facing rejection, others turn to a life of crime or become really good at playing drums, but...
Although in terms of production cars the show was somewhat poorer than the one in 2018, the number of concept cars shown was larger, and the cars themselves were more exciting. This year, there were in excess of 900 vehicles on the floor of the venue, over 150 of them being world or European...
For 2019, the number of regulation changes imposed by the organizers are significant, and are all meant to make the competition more spectacular in the hands of Liberty Media. The changes in regulations have led to modifications of the cars and the revising of the team strategies, and even more...
For a while now the carmakers planning to display something at Palexpo have been revealing their products. Overall though, it looks like this year’s event is a tad less exciting than the one of 2018, at least as far as production cars are concerned. Not the same can be said about concept...
About half a year later, the Opportunity landed in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars, tasked with the mission to travel for 1,100 yards (1 km) and last for 90 days. As it turned out, MER-B, affectionately called Oppy, lasted for a total of 15 years and trekked across Mars more than...
All his efforts would have been futile if it weren’t for the extreme machines Block used during his insane runs. Based mostly on otherwise regular cars and backed by established manufacturers, these conversions also owe their existence to Block and his Hoonigan team. Back in 2010, Block...