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Toyota Tacoma All-Terrain Gamer (ATG) concept: gullwings, hydraulic chairs & more

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 3rd 2009 No Comments

With LCD displays and even consoles being reasonably common among upmarket cars these days, you need to go a little further if you’re going to attract significant amounts of attention. For Toyota and the Microsoft Xbox team, that meant seemingly crashing a Toyota Tacoma truck first through a Jurassic Park themed paint display before throwing all the gaming and custom hydraulics to hand at the tricked-out interior. Even then, you’ve still got some way to go to match the Toyota Tacoma All-Terrain Gamer (ATG) concept shown at SEMA this year.

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Factory Five electric ‘33 Hot Rod likely to confuse earth-huggers

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 29th 2009 No Comments

What’s bright red, has an almost comically-long chin and bug-eyes? No, not my ex-wife (yes, Marion, your damned check is in the mail) but the latest incarnation of the Factory Five ‘33 Hot Rod, perhaps the best alternative to a pious Prius we’ve seen so far. Factory Five took the regular planet-destroying engine out and replaced it with a custom 300+ horsepower electric drive that musters over 660ft/lbs of torque and pegs 0-60mph times of four seconds.

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Nissan Land Glider leaning electric car concept [Video]

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 8th 2009 No Comments

After Shane flagged up a couple of interesting and definitely distinctive electric cars yesterday, it only seemed fair to counter with this: Nissan’s Land Glider concept. Reminiscent of the VentureOne tilting trike, the twin-seater Land Glider leans into turns to avoid falling over, and is blessed with one of the coolest cockpits we’ve seen in some time (you can see it in the gallery after the cut).

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Video demo after the cut

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Neiman Marcus Cupcake Cars bring Burning Man mayhem to the deep-pocketed

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 7th 2009 No Comments

Picture happiness beyond Prozac and you may end up with this, the Neiman Marcus Cupcake Car. A surprise hit at Burning Man back in 2004, the individually customized motorized cupcakes are the handiwork of Lisa Pongrace and her team and can now be yours to crash dangerously about the streets in.

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Audi e-tron electric R8 packs monster torque

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Sep 17th 2009 No Comments

The e-tron may sound like a 60s robot from a bad sci-fi film, but in actual fact it’s a hand-built electric concept car from Audi. Based on their R8 supercar, the Audi e-tron packs not one but four 230kW (313bhp) electric motors, one for each wheel, for a total of 3319lb/ft of torque, 0-60mph times of 4.8s and a (limited) top speed of 125mph, without killing any rhinos, pandas or polar bears in the process (unless they jump out into the road).

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Lexus announce HS 250h and LF-Ch Concept hybrids

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 11th 2009 No Comments

Lexus have announced not one but two hybrids, though we have to say there’s only one of them that we’d like to find in the SlashGear garage. The 2010 Lexus HS 250h, shown here, is the bread & butter of the range, a four-door saloon capable of 35mpg and various combinations of hybrid power. Meanwhile the more exciting model is the Lexus LF-Ch Concept, which you can see after the cut, and which is headed to Europe to show that hybrids don’t have to be slow.

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Mercedes Benz unveil 2010 SLS AMG gullwing

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Sep 10th 2009 No Comments

When you’re Mercedes Benz you have a pretty great history of iconic cars from which to pillage, and that’s just what the German marque have done with their new 2010 SLS AMG. Based on the original 300 SL Gullwing, the 2010 model keeps the top-hinged doors but fixes them to a carbon fiber body with an AMG-tuned V8 5.3 liter, 564 horsepower engine under the hood.

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Full gallery of the 2010 Mercedes Benz SLS AMG after the cut

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Panasonic CY-BB1000D in-car Blu-ray player revealed

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Aug 20th 2009 No Comments

Panasonic revealed the very first Blu-ray player meant to be installed in a car today. It’s called the CY-BB1000D. Also announced was the HX-3000D, which is an HD standard DVD player, also for your car.

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Ferrari 458 Italia unveiled: 4.5L 200+mph sportscar

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 28th 2009 2 Comments

Ferrari have unveiled their latest supercar, the frankly delicious 458 Italia, a slippery wedge of V8-powered insanity that will replace the F430. The combination of a freshly-fettled 4.5-liter 562 horsepower V8 and carefully engineered aerodynamics means the 458 Italia not only makes the o-60mph dash in under 3.4 seconds but does so with the lowest emissions and fuel consumption in its class.

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Maserati Granturismo shares living room with architect [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jul 27th 2009 No Comments

It would be tough to argue against the fact that the Maserati Granturismo is a beautiful car, but would you want to share your living room with it? Architect Holger Schubert has designed a space that does just that, with the top floor of an LA home given over to a loft-like garage with a remote-controlled ramp.

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