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Top Gear - Self Racing BMW 330i

BMW 330i races around the top gear track with no one driving it! The automatic navigation of the car is based primarily on a military-grade GPS system that is able to locate the car within a few centimeters, and thus drive it perfectly anywhere without the need of a human driver.


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Nissan GT-R Assembly Line Video

Scenes from the Nissan GT-R assembly line at Nissan’s Tochigi plant in Japan. See how this quite fast sports and a bit expensive car is being made…


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2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STI Full Roadtest

We know you. If someone tossed you the keys to a spanking-new 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STI for the weekend, you’d make a beeline for the nearest winding road leading into the mountains. So would we. But would you also bring along your wife, two kids and mother-in-law, all prone to carsickness? Not if you could avoid it…


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The Shock Wave Jet Truck

The ShockWave Jet Truck runs over 300 mph racing airplanes at airshows; holds the world record in a quarter mile for trucks at 256 mph in just 6.36 seconds; and holds the world record for full size trucks at 376 mph as recorded by Guinness Book of World Records. At 36,000 horsepower, the ShockWave has enough power to accelerate at 3 Gs vertical, which is as much as a Space Shuttle!


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2007 Audi RS4 vs. 2008 Lexus IS-F

Lexus would like you to believe that the 416-horsepower IS-F will have a similar impact on the market for over-endowed hot-rod sedans that is dominated by the Germans. The “F” suffix for this new variant of the IS is a nod to the early days of Lexus, when “F1″ became the code designation for the LS 400 prototype.


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Jason Plato Caparo T1 Crash Test Fire

The former BTCC champion Jason Plato testing new Caparo T1 track car at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, England. The Mclaren F1 team designed supercar suffers a oil fire whilst going over 150mph, Jason Plato suffered burns to his neck and hands but still went on to compete in the BTCC 2007 finale at Thruxton, narrowly missing out on the championship.


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