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The New Africa Twin Is a CRF...
The New Africa Twin Is a CRF...

25 Apr 2014, 13:21 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Back in the late summer of 2013 I wrote a wishful editorial, hoping that the rumored new-generation Africa Twin Honda was reportedly planning to manufacture would not follow the 1200cc trend. The ne...

 
History of Car-Wrecking Games and How “Next Car Game” Will Change It
History of Car-Wrecking Games and How “Next Car Game” Will Change It

24 Apr 2014, 16:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Most of us are driving each day on public roads having to deal with high fuel prices, stupid drivers, car jams, careless pedestrians, potholes and taxes. Perfect ingredients to make you snap and wis...

 
2014 BMW M235i First Drive
2014 BMW M235i First Drive

18 Apr 2014, 15:30 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It’s not every day BMW comes up with something it can proudly call the spiritual successor of the legendary 2002tii. And yet... here it is, the M235i. While the name might be a bit confusin...

 
The Future of Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Porsche, Seat and VW Revealed by Nurburgring Testing
The Future of Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Porsche, Seat and VW Revealed by Nurburgring Testing

15 Apr 2014, 16:33 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Volkswagen Group is going through a Nurburgring frenzy these days, with the majority of its brands having recently done Green Hell business. From hot hatches and SUVs to sports cars and even hyp...

 
The Dawn of a New Helmet Paradigm
The Dawn of a New Helmet Paradigm

11 Apr 2014, 16:14 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The two-wheeled worlds might become a bit safer as motorcycle helmets are about to change and this is a thing that brings joy to my heart. Helmet law-opponents will most likely find yet another reas...

 
2014 MINI Cooper S Hardtop First Drive
2014 MINI Cooper S Hardtop First Drive

11 Apr 2014, 15:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Ever since the first spy shots of the 2014 MINI Cooper S model reached our headquarters we were extremely curious to experience BMW’s first front-wheel-drive platform, internally codenamed UKL...

 
How Motorcycle Traction Control Systems Work
How Motorcycle Traction Control Systems Work

9 Apr 2014, 16:17 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Traction Control Systems, generally referred to as TCS, have begun to be a part of our everyday riding lives and are becoming increasingly common in new motorcycles. From sport to adventure bikes, m...

 
The Stupidest Car Accessories Ever: Tuning Fail
The Stupidest Car Accessories Ever: Tuning Fail

9 Apr 2014, 15:36 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Custom vehicles exist almost from the beginning of the auto industry as some of the first cars ever sold were just rolling chassis you could take to a coach builder and have your unique body panelli...

 
7 Reasons Why We Crash in the Spring
7 Reasons Why We Crash in the Spring

4 Apr 2014, 16:44 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Alrighty, the riding season kicks off and it brings back the wind-in-your-face joy, but packed with the risks we’ve forgotten all about during the winter. And since I’ve already got news...

 
ZIL Amphibious Screw Vehicles: a Cool Soviet Era Invention
ZIL Amphibious Screw Vehicles: a Cool Soviet Era Invention

29 Mar 2014, 16:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Take a moment to think about the wheel and the rubber tire. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to get about our daily lives and try as they might, engineers have yet to invent something better. I...

 
917 Going 919: Porsche's Big Le Mans Comeback
917 Going 919: Porsche's Big Le Mans Comeback

13 Mar 2014, 17:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The past fourteen 24 Hours of Le Mans races have been nothing but boring endurance events that ended with Audi taking the checkered flag on 12 occasions. No, wait, make that 13. Team Bentley was jus...

 
Top 5 Most Wanted Cars from Geneva
Top 5 Most Wanted Cars from Geneva

7 Mar 2014, 14:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / In terms of supercar and hypercar premieres it doesn’t get any better than this year’s Geneva Motor Show. The venue had its hands full in the two press days that preceded the actual kick...

 
Michael Schumacher's Coma: Two Months on, Questions Persist
Michael Schumacher's Coma: Two Months on, Questions Persist

28 Feb 2014, 19:26 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / If this was a bissextile year, tomorrow would be the 29th of February, precisely two months after Michael Schumacher's serious skiing accident. Two months of Schumi no longer driving, ridin...

 
Japanese Bikes Are the Most Reliable, Which Is the Worst?
Japanese Bikes Are the Most Reliable, Which Is the Worst?

28 Feb 2014, 16:35 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / There are countless reasons for deciding to buy a motorcycle, and frankly, pretty much all of them make sense in a way or another. From people getting on the bike to save off the petrol bill or reac...

 
High-Performance Pickup Trucks: A Deep Dive
High-Performance Pickup Trucks: A Deep Dive

27 Feb 2014, 15:53 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / It was 1925 when the first factory-built pickup truck became available in dealerships. It was called the Ford Model T "Runabout with Pickup Body" and sold for 281 dollars. It took Ford ano...

 
Sticker Bomb and the Geeky Art of Cartoon Car Wrapping
Sticker Bomb and the Geeky Art of Cartoon Car Wrapping

21 Feb 2014, 18:46 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The car world is full of some really awful stereotypes and catch phrases. We often hear that X or Y model is "the car for you", "has been designed specifically for the young demograph...

 
2015 Chak Molot, the Safest Motorcycle Around?
2015 Chak Molot, the Safest Motorcycle Around?

20 Feb 2014, 14:44 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Molot is Russian for “sled.” The Chack Molot should have also received some prefix, such as “super” or “ultra,” as we're dealing with a completely different ...

 
2015 Ferrari California T Tech Explained
2015 Ferrari California T Tech Explained

12 Feb 2014, 16:03 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Now that Ferrari has officially announced its turbo comeback through the Geneva-bound California T, it’s time to get into the depths of this forced induction Italian. We'll obviously s...

 
The Story Behind Lexus’ Spindle Grille
The Story Behind Lexus’ Spindle Grille

3 Feb 2014, 19:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Lexus came on the market with this so-called "spindle design" grille that shook the world in both ways. Some were outraged, while others just bought the cars

 
Geco, the Shape-Shifting Motorcycle of the Future
Geco, the Shape-Shifting Motorcycle of the Future

31 Jan 2014, 15:41 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Project Geco is the brain child of Eric Pepe Offenstadt, who leads a small, but highly enthusiastic, development team. Geco is also the result of countless years of painstaking research in the motor...