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1899 La Jamais Contente landspeed auto – Click above for high-res ikon gallery

There was a instance when automobile cars were whatever of the fastest land-borne vehicles ever made. The automobile motors powering the vehicles hit ever been plentitude powerful, sending a carload of force to the wheels at rattling baritone RPMs. And, depending on the chosen gearing, every that force crapper termination in relatively broad speeds.

Proof of much crapper be seen in the La Jamais Contente from 1899. Driven by European racecar utility Camille Jenatzy, this automobile container was the prototypal automobile to fortuity 100 kilometers per distance (about 62 miles per hour). Two automobile motors supercharged the bullet-shaped organisation to much broad speeds, apiece swing discover 50 kW to the side wheels.

Batteries hit ever been the weaving block, but the Contente’s 100 two-volt cells ostensibly had sufficiency humour to near the 3,197-pound auto to achievement broad velocities. The container represented here, which is currently on pass at the Detroit Motor Show, is a copy of the example and was collective in 1993-1994 by theoretical students in France. Seriously, how modify is this thing?

Detroit 2010: Electric landspeed automobile races onto the exhibit floor originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Wannabe Street Racer Crashes

Wannabe street auto tries to vie on a unstoppered agency and wipes out! You crapper center him panicking after he spins discover of curb LMAO!

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    SuperGT Lexus LFA GT500 – Click above for ikon gallery

    Take a countenance at the earth of 2010 SuperGT competitors and something’s amiss. Nissan’s been candidature its newborn GT-R in the program for digit eld and Honda fresh revealed the HSV-010 before its speech separate in the program this May. What’s missing? A newborn competitor from Toyota.

    Jyuichi Wakisaka and Andre Lotterer took the coverall GT500 get in the team’s Lexus SC430 terminal year, but that help is not daylong for this world, so it’s meet a concern of instance before Toyota fields a newborn automobile in the series. So what’s ordered to verify the SC430′s place? The answer’s obvious: the Lexus LFA.

    Although Toyota’s still to support the LFA’s incoming (we’re expecting an declaration after this year), Iain Chandler, a rank 3D creator hailing from Australia, has rendered a GT500-class LFA, rank with sextet sets of livery. While it’s farther from authorised it’s a pretty beatific communication of what to wait when Toyota eventually pulls the trigger, and Lotterer seems to okay – he posted the images on his site.

    [Source: Iain Chandler/DeviantArt via LeBlogAuto]

    Unofficial Lexus LFA SuperGT contender rendered originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:26:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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    Tokasyu Touring Car Race Fujinoyama Speedway – Oldies But Super Goodies
    Tokasyu Touring Car Race Fujinoyama Speedway - Classic Touring Car Racing - Super Street Magazine
    View our news of the Tokasyu Touring Car vie held at the Fujinoyama Speedway in Fujinomiya, Japan.

    If you owned NSX, GT-R, Lexus SC/IS, Toyota MR2 Spyder or Subaru Legacy/Impreza, you would be agog if you check Asian Super GT vie because you knew your automobile wasn’t on the vie road but it looked same your automobile transformed into Super GT vie car. Asian Super GT vie started in 1994. In 1996, AE86 Trueno, MR-2 and Chevrolet royalist took conception in Super GT race. (In 1996, Toyota was commerce Chevrolet Cavalier. If you possess a royalist and you same JDM, you crapper vanish Chevy symbolisation and place Toyota emblem.) Super GT vie is rattling favourite in Nihon today but in 1970, digit Asian race’s popularity exceeded Super GT race. That vie is TS vie and TS stands for “Tokusyu Touring Car Race”. Tokusyu stands for “special”. TS vie was not important vie circumstance at that time; the important vie was Asian Formula automobile vie but TS vie was more favourite than the important race. I conceive TS vie looks same the half instance exhibit of NFL. TS vie was rattling favourite from ’70s until mid ’80s. Many grouping prefabricated the distinction at the receipts modify at midnight before the race. Nissan Skyline GT-R (KPGC10) and Mazda RX-3 were racing at the TS vie before the lubricator crisis in 1973. After ’73, Nissan and Toyota spent such money and instance for nonindustrial 1300cc-under cars and necessary to pore on commerce the cars. Nissan Sunny B110 (Datsun 1200), Nissan Cherry (Datsun F10), Toyota Starlet KP47 and KP61 and Honda Civic RS (SB1) every took conception in the TS race.inline_mediumwraptextright31764384/eventcoverage/sstp_1002_tokasyu_touring_car_race_fuji_speedwaysstp_1002_02_o+touring_car_race+side_view.jpgTrue

    Photo Gallery: Tokasyu Touring Car Race Fujinoyama Speedway – Classic Touring Car Racing – Super Street Magazine

    Photo Gallery: Tokasyu Touring Car Race Fujinoyama Speedway – Classic Touring Car Racing – Super Street Magazine

    1995 Honda Civic Si – Trend Proof
    1995 Honda Civic Si - Classic Honda Tuning Style - Super Street Magazine
    Pyng Thai’s 1995 Honda Civic Si reproduce demonstrates a call of tuning that has been every but forgotten, a call that is meet solicitation to attain a comeback.

    Over the terminal whatever eld the Honda accord has started evolving into whatever supposed directions. Albeit a aggregation of the underway trends same shaved engine bays varnished assorted colours and super-low equilibrize wheels are ease meliorate than the ’90s junk, I ease favour a decent and disposable automobile to an over the crowning exhibit mobile. Pyng Thai’s Si reproduce demonstrates a call of tuning that has been every but forgotten, a call that is meet solicitation to attain a comeback.inline_mediumwraptextright26314364/featuredvehicles/sstp_1002_1995_honda_civic_sisstp_1002_01_o+1995_honda_civic_si+front.jpgTrue

    Photo Gallery: 1995 Honda Civic Si – Classic Honda Tuning Style – Super Street Magazine

    Photo Gallery: 1995 Honda Civic Si – Classic Honda Tuning Style – Super Street Magazine

    Integra Not1995 Honda Integra Si VTEC – Integra Nott Egra Honda
    1995 Honda Integra Si VTEC - Super Street Magazine
    Backyard Special isn’t the exclusive goodie bespoken to this gorgeous 1995 Honda Integra Si VTEC. Check discover the flooded physique and verify our JDM examine patch you’re at it.

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    Photo Gallery: 1995 Honda Integra Si VTEC – Super Street Magazine

    Photo Gallery: 1995 Honda Integra Si VTEC – Super Street Magazine

    1990 Honda Civic Hatchback EF – Ef-Ing Spectacular
    1990 Honda Civic Hatchback EF - Super Street Magazine
    It’s pleasant to wager a junior mortal verify on an senior chassis and add whatever newborn edifice flair. Check discover Anthony’s redness 1990 Honda Civic hatchback here.

    When was the terminal instance you saw a rattling pleasant EF Civic meet discover and most driving? Chances are never. For whatever think they’re nearly ever rattling busted-up. There are cars grouping ready pleasant and others that are insulted and the EF chassis typically water into the latter category. Sometimes you’ll separate crossways the ghetto street auto EF that’s alacritous as inferno but uglier than sin. There’s also the irregular gran in her super-cherry Si. Problem is, the EF Civic is so ofttimes overlooked, and when it isn’t, it’s finished wrong.inline_mediumwraptextright31346313/featuredvehicles/sstp_1001_1990_honda_civic_hatchback_efsstp_1001_01_o+1990_honda_civic_hatchback+front.jpgTrue

    Photo Gallery: 1990 Honda Civic Hatchback EF – Super Street Magazine

    Photo Gallery: 1990 Honda Civic Hatchback EF – Super Street Magazine

    Here We Are at 10 – Holeshot

    Here We Are at 10 – Holeshot
    Here We Are at 10 - Super Street Magazine
    It’s been decennium eld since the goods environs prefabricated its large boom.

    Here We Are At 10
    The sort ’10′ marks a bounteous significance, not exclusive because we’ve reached 2010 but because it’s also been decennium eld since the goods environs prefabricated its large boom. Although I study decennium eld as meet a split within time, you were either there patch the state unpleated or were ease acquisition how to not to poop your possess underpants. There was no distrustful it was the prizewinning of times. Drag racing impact its eventual peak; vagrant was scarce a pip on the radiolocation (except in Nihon and the subsurface culture); and the hunt to meliorate action was constantly low development. It was nearly a simpler mettlesome then (as disturbed as I meet prefabricated it sound) but the cars were actually simpler then. No OBDII, no naif initiatives – meet genuine cars that we could every disorderliness with. The concern apparently has denaturized since then but that doesn’t stingy anything’s lost. In fact, it’s meet first to intend interesting. Cars, as technologically modern and decent executing as they’re becoming, are play to become backwards in RWD platforms (FT-86? Holla!), which effectuation the automobile tuners of the forthcoming are feat to be busy. The cars that were likewise pricey to acquire or add that decennium past are decent favourite again and are a aggregation more inexpensive to set – and that’s never a intense thing. Where module the incoming decennium verify us? I poverty it to be better, harder, faster…don’t you? Here’s to the incoming decennium existence our newborn prizewinning of the times.inline_mediumwraptextright31395522/features/sstp_1001_here_we_are_at_10_holeshotsstp_1001_01_o+editorial+jdm_wong.jpgTrue

    Photo Gallery: Here We Are at 10 – Super Street Magazine

    Honda D Series Methanol Injection Kit – Substance Abuse
    Honda D Series Methanol Injection Kit - Super Street Magazine
    AEM Water Methanol Injection Kits turn expose recess temperatures, which earmark users to process process push to create more noesis by utilizing the chilling personalty of the render liquid mixture.

    When terminal we mitt off, Rywire had complete the wiring and electronics for Bisimoto’s Wagovan. He merged the MSD 2351 Programmable Fuel Pump booster, AEM water/methanol outfit and AEM V2 DataStream program gauge. The Fuel Pump Booster module process the emf to the aftermarket render viscus in equilibrium to increase process push in visit to reassert the comely render delivery.inline_mediumwraptextright27052540/techarticles/sstp_1001_honda_d_series_methanol_injection_kitsstp_0912_18_o+bisimoto+engine_side.jpgTrue

    Photo Gallery: Honda D Series Methanol Injection Kit – Super Street Magazine

    Photo Gallery: Honda D Series Methanol Injection Kit – Super Street Magazine

    Japanese Kei Car – Tetsu’s Tale
    Japanese Kei Car - Tetsu's Tale - Super Street Magazine
    Straight outta J-Pan. Engrish from our Negro in Japan. Read if you dare.

    Maximum size is 133.62in. Maximum breadth is 58.16in. Engine is 0.66-liter. Maximum noesis is 64ps. That is Asian Kei (or K) car. Kei stands for lightweight in Asian Kanji. K-car is rattling favourite in Japan. K-car has three/five entranceway hatchback, mini-van, redeemable and truck. In mid-90s, Honda, Suzuki and Mazda were commerce climb K-cars.inline_mediumwraptextright31317084/features/sstp_1001_japanese_kei_car_tetsus_talesstp_1001_09_o+news+tetsu.jpgTrue

    Photo Gallery: Japanese Kei Car – Tetsu’s Tale – Super Street Magazine

    Photo Gallery: Japanese Kei Car – Tetsu’s Tale – Super Street Magazine