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200-horsepower Honda mows its way into the record books

Loz Blain June 11, 2019

Honda's Mean Mower V2 might have wrestled back the title of world's fastest lawnmower for the Japanese factory, with a 150.99-mph (243-km/h) top speed, a power-to-weight ratio better than a Bugatti Chiron and the fastest 0-100 mph time in history for a lawn care vehicle.

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Automotive

The new Ultima RS hypercar: 1200 horsepower and 250 mph for drivers on a budget

Loz Blain June 10, 2019

The new top dog Ultima hypercar can compete with multi-million dollar dream machines on nearly every performance metric - despite the fact that it costs a fraction of what they do, and offers a totally "analog" manual-shift driving experience for absolute purists. We love it.

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Automotive

Mil-Spec Automotive goes for capability and luxury on its latest "tactical" Hummer build

Loz Blain May 16, 2019

So much of the automotive industry these days is pushing for smaller, cleaner, electric intelligence. But some still like 'em big and heavy and dumb, and nothing hits that holy trinity quite like a Hummer. Mil-Spec Auto has released its latest military-inspired custom H1 build, and it's a brute.

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Motorcycles

Interview: Shea Nyquist's home-made electric land speed attempt

Loz Blain May 6, 2019

Ex-BMX freestyler and custom motorcycle builder Shea Nyquist is putting together a home-made electric streamliner motorcycle to take a shot at the land speed record books. It takes a highly skilled, doggedly determined and slightly nutty person to succeed on the salt, and Shea might be that guy.

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Triple XL: The biggest production motorcycle on Earth is back, and it's got bigger

Loz Blain May 1, 2019

Fans of sheer largeness, pour yourself a bucket of champagne. The biggest, baddest production motorcycle in the world is back, and it's bigger then ever before. The new 2.5-liter Triumph Rocket 3 TFC is a trailer-pulling beast of a thing that'll dwarf anything this side of a Boss Hoss.

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Motorcycles

Performance damn near unlimited: 400-Nm Essence e-Raw redefines two-wheeled lunacy

Loz Blain April 11, 2019

This electric monster managed to sneak by under our radar, but it deserves some serious attention. Coming out of Lyons, France, Essence Motorcycles is making a massively powerful, long-range e-streetfighter with eye-popping looks and performance so extreme it's actually hard to imagine.

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Lazareth's transforming, flying motorcycle demonstrates a stable hover

Loz Blain March 17, 2019

"We don't know if Lazareth is genuinely intending to test fly this thing," we wrote when we first saw La Moto Volante, "or just present it as a work of art." A new video answers that question pretty comprehensively, as it shows this beast taking off and achieving a stable hover on tethers.

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Horrifying Slovakian "Superquad" puts an 850-horsepower V10 motor in a quad bike

Loz Blain March 6, 2019

There are supercars and superbikes ... Why not a superquad? Slovakia's Victor Engler couldn't think of a good reason, so he went and built this 850 horsepower V10 monster, which he says tops out at a ludicrous 350 km/h, or 217 mph.

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Motorcycles

208hp, 187mph: MV Agusta unleashes the world's fastest nakedbike

Loz Blain November 8, 2018

​"Stop detuning our naked sportsbikes," cried the hooligans. "OK," grinned MV Agusta, and let this brute off the leash. How exactly you're supposed to hold onto this unfaired monster with the wind blasting your puny body at two and a half times the speed of a hurricane? Well, that's your problem.

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AMC world championships: The world's wildest custom motorcycles shine at Intermot

Loz Blain October 7, 2018

Looking at production bikes, you could be forgiven for thinking there's not much real innovation going on in the motorcycle world. And when you see the bizarre and creative and wonderful things custom builders are doing ... well, you get a sense for why manufacturers tend to play it safe!

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