• The list of cars from 2 Fast 2 Furious, a 2003 street racing action film directed by John Singleton. It is the only film in the series to not feature Vin Diesel in the cast, though his character Dominic Toretto is referenced in the film. 

    The first one, Nissan Skyline GT-R, is a classic “grey market” car; never sold by Nissan in the US, but enterprising individuals can use some legal loopholes to acquire one and make it street legal. It’s not particularly well known to non-aficianados, but to those in the know the Skyline is a legend. Think of it as Nissan’s Mustang and you begin to get the idea.

  • Whether they were notable for their superior performance, or for the superior performers who drove them, RideLust’s list of the most famous cars pays homage to all the truly iconic automobiles of our time.

  • CMU develops self-driving cars that are impossible to crash

    At long last, and many decades after the quasiprophetic words of our sci-fi forefathers, we seem to be gravitating towards a world full of autonomous, crash-proof vehicles. Some element of self-driving vehicles was always to be expected, of course. With ubiquitous, cheap computers and high-quality digital cameras and sensors, it was inevitable — but crash-proof cars? Cars that can drive themselves and prove, with 100% certainty, that they will avoid other vehicles? Believe it or not, that’s what a team at Carnegie Mellon University is developing.

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  • Generally virtually all Monster trucks tend to be particularly utilized for auto racing; that’s why sometimes it is called as mud bogging. In the automobiles segment, a variety of trucks can be purchased. Nonetheless there are a few autos which primarily made for racing. The complete array of these kinds of automotives provides sturdy and amazing tires. When compared to usual trucks, tires of Monster trucks tend to be wider in size.

    Generally virtually all Monster trucks tend to be particularly utilized for auto racing; that’s why sometimes it is called as mud bogging. In the automobiles segment, a variety of trucks can be purchased. Nonetheless there are a few autos which primarily made for racing. The complete array of these kinds of automotives provides sturdy and amazing tires. When compared to usual trucks, tires of Monster trucks tend to be wider in size.

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  • “There may be more brains in your bucket of popcorn,” quips The Hollywood Reporter’s Meghan Lehmann. But, she admits, “this gleefully silly smash-’em-up heist film is sturdy enough to restore much of the fan goodwill torched by the horror movie that was the Diesel-free The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.”

    “There may be more brains in your bucket of popcorn,” quips The Hollywood Reporter’s Meghan Lehmann. But, she admits, “this gleefully silly smash-’em-up heist film is sturdy enough to restore much of the fan goodwill torched by the horror movie that was the Diesel-free The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.”

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  • Obsidian SG One 1967 Mustang built by CoupeR Design features a twin-supercharged, twin-intercooled 392 stroker engine producing 900 bhp. The engine is mated to a 5-speed manual Tremac transmission. The car rides on custom 18” front and 20” CoupeR wheels, while stopping power comes from 13.7” rotors with 4-piston calipers.

    Obsidian SG One 1967 Mustang built by CoupeR Design features a twin-supercharged, twin-intercooled 392 stroker engine producing 900 bhp. The engine is mated to a 5-speed manual Tremac transmission. The car rides on custom 18” front and 20” CoupeR wheels, while stopping power comes from 13.7” rotors with 4-piston calipers.

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  • Porsche has rolled out a race-bred version of the company’s 918 Spyder Concept at this year’s Detroit Auto Show. Packing the same drivetrain as the track-proven 911 GT3 R Hybrid race car, Porsche says that the 918 RSR will bring a whopping 767 combined horsepower to the party when it shows up in the paddock. A total of 563 of those ponies are provided by a 6.2-liter V8 that revs to an atmospheric 10,300 rpm. Porsche has partnered its beastly eight-pot with two electric motors capable of 75 kilowatts of juice positioned at each front wheel.

    Porsche has rolled out a race-bred version of the company’s 918 Spyder Concept at this year’s Detroit Auto Show. Packing the same drivetrain as the track-proven 911 GT3 R Hybrid race car, Porsche says that the 918 RSR will bring a whopping 767 combined horsepower to the party when it shows up in the paddock. A total of 563 of those ponies are provided by a 6.2-liter V8 that revs to an atmospheric 10,300 rpm. Porsche has partnered its beastly eight-pot with two electric motors capable of 75 kilowatts of juice positioned at each front wheel.

  • A crash test is a form of destructive testing usually performed in order to ensure safe design standards in crashworthiness and crash compatibility for automobiles or related components.

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  • Fast Five (also known as The Fast and the Furious 5) is the upcoming fifth installment of The Fast and the Furious film series. The film is set to be released on April 29, 2011. Chronologically, Fast Five comes after Fast & Furious and before The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

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  • There are just some things that you can’t do with a real car without getting into a lot of trouble. So we built a 1/10 scale RC model of the Nissan Sentra SE-R and filmed it tearing through the city on its way home.

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  • MegaRace 2 is a racing game developed by Cryo Interactive in 1996, released on August 31 of that year for the PC. This game features host, Lance Boyle, played by Christian Erickson. In this installment of the futuristic racing series, you are once again the “enforcer” and you are once again attempting to win a series of races against computer opponents, by finishing in first place, or destroying their cars, automatically disqualifying them.

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  • Long exposure photography entails using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring its moving elements.

    Long exposure photography entails using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring its moving elements.

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