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Toyota Backpedals Furiously, Recalls 3.8M Vehicles For Faulty Accelerators
The accelerator pedal, right, in a 2010 Toyota Avalon is seen on the show room floor of Bobby Rahal Toyota in Mechanicsburg, Pa. , Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. When the news of Toyota’s spontaneously accelerating vehicles first broke, it was in t...
Propane Powered 1956 Ford F-100 Does Hank Hill Proud
Thanks to the custom propane-powered engine, Steve Hale’s 1956 F-100 hot rod is one of the most extremely badass yet remarkably fuel-efficient vehicles I’ve seen to date. To highlight the conservation ideology demonstrated by the latter ...
AMP=D Electric Makes Going Green A Rewarding Experience
True, although today could have been spent exploring the new and innovative technologies used by various firms to further the development of environmentally-friendly vehicles, I’m easily distracted by throaty exhaust notes. Unfortunately, the ...
Chevy Camaro Chroma Debuts At SEMA 2009
We’re only three Camaros in and we’re already getting bored with Chevy’s SEMA festivities. This isn’t necessarily a reflection of the Camaro itself, but rather the relentless PR machine that has deadened our senses to any so-...
Jay Leno Camaro Generates Brief Buzz At SEMA 2009
Yesterday, the Internet was set ablaze with rumors that the custom Camaro pictured above (and below) was actually the ever-elusive, heavily-speculated Camaro Z28 making a surprise appearance. Of course, it wasn’t. The Camaro in question is act...
2010 HPE700 LS9 Camaro Roars Into SEMA
Hennessey’s massive ZedR1-bred Camaro first hit the scene back in June, and were are no less impressed with it today than were then. All the explanation of our fanaticism can be gleaned directly from its simplistic name: HPE700 LS9 Camaro. Whi...
Hennessey Genesis Carbon Coupe By HPE Tuning School
Appearing alongside the Street Concepts Genesis at Hyundai’s SEMA booth this year will be another tastefully understated custom job, this one from the Hennessey tuning school. Dubbed the Hennessey Genesis Carbon Coupe, the 500-horsepower Korea...
Westside Auto Group Kizashi Soleil To Debut Outside SEMA
There’s really only one firm that can work the two-tone paint scheme and gaping front intake and that would be the company that pioneered it, Bugatti. Much the same can also be said of Subaru’s signature flat gold rims, yet both Bugatti ...
2010 Suzuki Kizashi By Delta Tech Engineering
As loyal RideLust readers (all three of you) may remember, when the 2010 Suzuki Kizashi officially bowed globally in July of this year we were genuinely surprised that we didn’t hate it with a searing passion. As a matter of fact, we actually ...
Chrysler’s Mopar Preps 4 Dodge, Jeep Vehicles For SEMA 2009
The difficult economy and the heavy impact it’s had on the automotive industry has made for rather sparse attendance at several major auto shows, but we’re hoping this year’s SEMA show will prove immune to the crisis. We’re al...
In Soviet Russia, SUV Invent You!
Comrades, if you think the Jeep started the SUV craze, you’re wrong. It was in fact the glorious people’s GAZ M-72. While the Jeep was indeed a popular 4WD vehicle, it wasn’t until the Grand Wagoneer came around in 1963 that the United States f...
Muscle Car Trio Highlights KONI Challenge Finale
Race-Prepared 2010 Camaro Like a flashback to a time when Detroit steel dominated the world; Mustangs, Camaros and Challengers will all be represented in the season-ending Bosch Engineering Oktoberfest race this weekend in Richmond VA. All three of t...
Ferrari P4/5 Competizione to Revive NART Team?
If James Glickenhaus gets his way, NART, Ferrari’s North American Racing Team, might be making a comeback. If you don’t know the name, you probably know about his custom Ferrari P4/5, a rebodied Ferrari Enzo one-off that he commissioned from Pin...
2010 Impala 9C1 “Police” is Sad Pontiac G8 Substitue
You all might remember the rumors that circulated about the Pontiac G8 coming back stateside for police duty. Sadly for police recruiters nationwide, it’s not to be, and GM’s entrant into the field remains the painfully boring 2010 Chevy Impala ...
2010 Abarth 500 R3T: Rally-Ready Hot Hatch
Really, what car doesn’t look better with a hood blister full of Cibies? The Fiat 500’s rally-prepped Abarth R3T version certainly does, and would look even more appropriate blasting down a snowy mountain road with all of them blazing. T...
2010 G-Power BMW X5 Typhoon RS: Carpooling On The Edge
An unintentional yet fitting tribute to the GMC Typhoon of legends told, the G-Power BMW X5 Typhoon RS has been maniacally tuned to take the luxury SUV places no whitebread grocery getter should go. As a matter of fact, so complete was G-Power’...
ROUSH Releases Full Details on 2010 STAGE 3 and 540RH
About a week ago, we brought you the first photos of the new 2010 ROUSH STAGE 3 and what little details we could scrounge together. Now, we’ve got the full scoop: ROUSH unveiled two new models recently, the aforementioned STAGE 3, and a new mod...
Mansory Bentley Vitesse Rosé Challenges Our Faith In Humanity
Well, the good news is that production will be limited to just three cars. According to an inexplicably proud Mansory, Vitesse is the French word for “velocity” and although they did not admit as much, Rosé is apparently the French word ...
2010 ROUSH Stage 3 Mustang Spotted
These photos of the upcoming 2010 ROUSH Stage 3 Mustang are brought to you courtesy of Brad Barnett at TheMustangSource. What is immediately apparent is the much more menacing mug at the front. Deleting the fog lights in favor of a blacked-out billet...
Friday Photo: Wacky Wheels on JDM Mazda
Just in case you think that only modern car modification trends have been extreme, check out this old-school photo of a Mazda Cosmo, stretched, tucked, and contorted into one of the most extreme stances we’ve ever seen … all while Mark Wa...
Mazda MX-5 “Superlight” Full Gallery
Mazda has dropped a huge gallery of pics (find them after the jump) of the upcoming MX-5 (”Miata” for those of you living in the past) “Superlight” concept, a roof-and-windshield-less wonder reminiscent of the recent Veritas R...
Piper Motorsport Builds the Ultimate M3
There’s no car more perfect than the BMW E30 M3, in my Germanic eyes. It is perfection. Lightweight, boxy, RWD, powerful and agile. For some people, though perfection just isn’t enough: The Mona Lisa could use one extra brush stroke (a moustache)...
2010 Porsche 911 “SC” Available Again With Fuchs and Ducktail
The upcoming 2010 Porsche 911 Sport Classic is reviving some classic Porsche details by fitting new versions of the iconic Fuchs wheels, and a freaking ducktail spoiler, a la the famous 2.7RS (and an indeterminate but huge amount of lesser 911s clone...
The 600HP ABT Sportsline Audi R8 5.2 FSI Is A Demon In Carbon Fiber Jeans
Ascribing poetic hyperbole and terms of endearment to Audi’s R8 is pure cliche at this point. We know it’s good. The only thing that wasn’t just as spectacular as everything else about the car was the engine, a 4.2 liter V8 packing ...
Your Friday Moment of Zen: Mazda RX-8 …. Donkified
All we want to know is, where’s the stepladder to get into the damn thing?...
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Ride: Manhart’s V10-powered Z4
It was only a matter of time before one of those nutso German tuners decided to cram the biggest motor they could find into the most unlikely chassis. To be honest, what choice did they have? Virtually every other engine combination has tried, like t...
Mazda’s Hydrogen Development May Offer Eco-Alternative
Although the variety of alternative fuels, hybrids and electric vehicles being pursued may project a serious commitment by the automakers to explore a new path, the long term viability of all of these different solutions and approaches is probably no...
Hurst So Good: Dodge Challenger Gets New Duds
Hankerin’ for a supercharged Dodge Challenger from Hurst, but the gold “look at ME!” paintjob putting you off? Hurst has a fix for you, introducing a surprisingly tasteful appearance package that drops the nonsense and gets back to Hurst’s ro...
