OMG! A car test failure. This shows how engineers shouldn’t design a car, it was a China-made vehicle at a 40mph crash test.

[update]The car has no structural integrity whatsoever.[/update]

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The Scorpion by Ronn Motors is a 450 horsepower hydrogen powered vehicle that drinks the water from your garden hose to create hydrogen on demand. It gets 40mpg, the hydrogen is mixed with 91-octane gasoline to improve the fuel economy and reduce the emissions of the car’s 3.5-liter internal combustion engine. It is priced at $150,000. More pictures after the break. Read more…

In this Fifth Gear segment, you will see Ariel Atom 2 attempts to break the 0-60 mph world record at Silverstone. The car is powered by a supercharged Honda Civic Type R-sourced K20 engine, churning out 300bhp. Did he make it? Video after the break. Read more…

How’s a car concept in olden days? Have you thought of that? Yeah, this is the concept car from 1980 called Citroën Karin, a concept by Trevor Fiore in 1980. It is a three-seater car. More pictures after the break. Read more…

In the 2009 Moscow Tuning Show, there’s a special car shown. It’s a ’70s Chevrolet Camaro modified by a team of students from Russian MHPI design school. The car look like a car from a movie called Death Race last year, a remake of the 1975 movie Death Race 2000. Matte-grey paint was used and they weld on the armor plates and weapons. More pictures after the break. Read more…

This is the Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1-Based Bertone Mantide, revealed in Shanghai Auto Show this week. This hotty is powered by Chevrolet 638-hp 6.2-liter supercharged V8 engine, achieving 0-62 mph in 3.2 seconds and a top speed of 217 mph. Carbon fiber were used for all body panels, interior trim, seats and even the wheels and overall reduced the vehicle weight by 100 kilos. More pictures after the break. Read more…

Hmm… it’s like putting a chicken head on duck’s body. This is the Nissan Sentra R34 converstion, with SR20DET (AWD)GTi-R [engine], but with 2001 Infiniti 5 speed transmission. The GTi-R is often called the Baby Godzilla in Japan because it is the 4 cylinder version of the Skyline’s RB26DETT – Can do 12′s very easy in the 1/4 mile with slicks. Going for $7000. More pictures after the break. Read more…

A modder is China has built a Verde Ithaca Lamborghini Murcielago out of a Nissan 300ZX. So you guys think that’s all wrong? Yeah, Murcielago clone. More pictures after the break. Read more…

Take a look at the Hybrids challenge, the 2010 Toyota Prius and the 2010 Honda Insight. The 2010 Honda Insight LX is nearly as fuel-efficient as the 2010 Toyota Prius.

“The Insight has already proven itself against the 2009 Prius. But now that the 2010 Toyota Prius has appeared with its bigger engine, all-new chassis and 50-mpg EPA-combined fuel economy rating, it is a much tougher hybrid cookie (bursting with high-fiber organic oats and fair-trade chocolate chips!).”

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This is the 2010 Toyota Prius, featuring 1.8-liter inline-4 with variable intake valve timing — 98 hp at 5,200 rpm and 105 pound-feet of torque at 4,000 rpm. More pictures and a video after the break. Read more…