The Texas Invitational is traditionally a roll race…. but that wasn’t stopping these two GT-R owners from testing out their launch control against each other. Man, let me tell you, one of the closest races of the weekend! Not insane horsepower cars, but a damn good race!
For the first time in X Games history, the world’s top slopestyle mountain bikers will compete alongside their counterparts in traditional summer X Games events such as RallyCross, skateboarding, BMX and Moto X, as the X Games Munich athlete invite list was released on Monday.
Mountain Bike Slopestyle at X Games Munich is one of only three Diamond level events on the annual Freeride Mountain Bike World Tour calendar this year, so it’s a big one. Throw in an X Games gold medal for the winner, and you can bet the top riders in the world will be ready to throw it down. Great Britain’s Sam Pilgrim … More
What do Carbon Motors’ BMW-powered police car, Aptera Motors’ electric three wheeler, and Fisker’s luxury sedan have in common? Two things: they asked the government for loans, and they’re dead, as are more than half of the car companies who sought loans, according to documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by Jalopnik.P
Of the 18 existing or would-be carmakers we identified as having applied for loans under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program, 10 have since faded into bankruptcy or ceased operations … More