RideLust

Climbing into a car that’s filled with the scent of dirty cigarettes is one of the most unpleasant experiences one can have. What’s even more annoying is trying to get that smell out of the vehicle once it’s permeated itself into the cars fabric covered surfaces. Larry Kosilla (the world’s greatest detailer) of AMMO NYC and DRIVE CLEAN is here to show us how to get your ride smelling like new again so you and your family can go back to driving without smelling like a dirty ashtray. Check it out after the jump.

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There is really not much to be said here except that everything looks cooler in slow motion…

Click through and enjoy.

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The thing about being a motorcyclist is that we know something that car guys will never understand. That being, that the motorcycle, when ridden properly becomes an extension of your being. You see every input that one makes has a direct effect on the machine that you’re riding. The simple action of leaning left or right for instance will dictate in which direction the bike goes. There are no walls here, no seat belts and or no barriers. It’s just you, the bike and that wonderful road ahead. Award winning producer and director Taro Russell recently let us in on his vision of that sacred relationship that exists between man and machine in his new video, “Heart and Soul of Motorbikes”.

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Well, it’s official. Virgin Galactic has opened the worlds first spaceport in New Mexico. The $200m state funded project was agreed upon back in 2005 and covers a 27 sq. mile parcel of land known as “The Land of Enchantment”. This is pretty big news when you get right down to it, because billionaire businessman Richard Branson is now the first man to actually privatize space travel. Tickets are selling for a mere $200,000 a seat, and while that won’t get you to the moon, that will get you about 60 miles straight up where you’ll be able to float around weightless for a few minutes. Now while $200,000 may seem like a bunch of moola’ for most people, rest assured that there are plenty of people that will see this as a bargain and take full advantage of being one of the first private citizens in space.

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By 2036, I think that most transportation will involve horses and ox carts, but Mercedes-Benz has a more pleasant and upbeat view of the future. Debuting at this week’s Frankfurt Auto Show is Mercedes’ F 125 Concept, which shows the possible future of motorized transportation, as interpreted by Mercedes Benz. Read More…

Let’s face it: the inside of an engine is a pretty terrifying place, filled with explosions, violent movement and temperatures hot enough to melt lead. We’ve all seen animated clips of how engines work from the inside, but this one, created by Mobil 1, gives a slightly different perspective. If you’ve ever wondered what a molecule of motor oil sees after it gets sucked from the oil pan and travels through the top end, before returning to the oil pan, this animated short will give you a good idea.

Whether you opt to use a synthetic or petroleum oil, regular oil and filter changes are the key to long engine life. Think of it as inexpensive insurance, with a premium due every 5,000 miles or so.

When we think of printing we naturally think of the printers that we have at home or at work. They print in standard 2D and are great little machines, however their basic function hasn’t changed since the 1960′s. That’s where a company called the Z Company comes in. You see they’ve developed a printer that can actually print in 3 dimensions, in fact this sucker is so cool that it truly has the ability to revolutionize how certain items can be produced. The process starts by scanning in a 3D image of the item that you want replicated. Once into the system, the item is then slowly molded out of an epoxy powder into just about anything you can imagine. While not yet available on a mass scale, the 3D printer gives us all a little glimpse of what we could possibly see in the future.
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As both a car guy and a firearms instructor, I cringe every time I see a car explode when it hits the base of a cliff, or when someone fires a round from a handgun or rifle into the gas tank. If cars were really as prone to explosions as Hollywood would like us to believe, we’d be driving past crispy hunks of metal on a daily basis. In the interest of science, Speed TV’s series “Car Science” pitted an expert shot (who, incidentally, looks pretty hot in tight leather pants) against a Fox-body Mustang. Will a .357 Magnum be enough to send the ‘Stang to the great wrecking yard in the sky? How about an M4 assault rifle or a .308 sniper rifle? I’m not going to give it away, but you may learn something by watching the video below. Read More…

According to Sebastian Thrun, the engineer behind Google’s driverless car project, up to one million lives could be saved in the United States each year if we just left the driving to sensor equipped, computer controlled pods. Humans, it seems, aren’t very good at mastering the complex processes (like paying attention to traffic ahead, or yielding the left lane) required to operate a motor vehicle in today’s fast-paced society. Keeping in constant contact with our peers via Twitter and instant messaging has become more important than mastering the skills required to drive a car proficiently, so one or the other has to go. Thrun insists that driverless cars would not only save lives, but would ensure quicker and more efficient transportation, reduce fuel consumption (and hence, pollution) and eliminate traffic jams. His ideas were presented at the recent TED Talks conference, and were backed up by data accumulated over 140,00 miles of autonomous, robot driving. Read More…

If you’ve ever turned wrenches on a car or a bike, chances are good that you’ve upgraded an exhaust system at one time or another. The cheap and easy way to do this is to replace the muffler, or (better yet) the exhaust system from the catalytic converter on back. The real horsepower gains come from replacing stock exhaust manifolds with headers, then replacing the entire exhaust system with a less restrictive one. Dyno data shows this to be an effective way to add horsepower to almost any vehicle, but do you know why this works? The video below shows how it works and even (briefly) explains why; think of it as science class for those of us with dirt under our fingernails. Read More…