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Octopussy, the Fastest Superyacht in the World, Pops Up in Dubai in Terrible Condition
Octopussy, the Fastest Superyacht in the World, Pops Up in Dubai in Terrible Condition

9 Feb 2024, 09:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The iconic Heesen vessel didn't complete the refit in Florida as planned but traveled to Dubai by tugboat, as a stripped hull. But it's not all bad news

 
The World's First Jet Suit Race Series Is Confirmed: Flying Men Are More Exciting Than F1
The World's First Jet Suit Race Series Is Confirmed: Flying Men Are More Exciting Than F1

31 Jan 2024, 08:38 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Gravity Industries, the creator of the so-called Iron Man jet suit, will provide the suits and the training for the race, scheduled to take place in Dubai on Fe

 
Sports Car Named Like a Fighter Jet Fittingly Sets New Lateral Acceleration Record
Sports Car Named Like a Fighter Jet Fittingly Sets New Lateral Acceleration Record

15 Dec 2023, 08:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Dutch-made Donkervoort F22 sports car took to the track to celebrate one year on the market and it broke the lateral acceleration record

 
Highly Modified Porsche 911 Goes Where No Other Car Has Gone Before, Sets Altitude Record
Highly Modified Porsche 911 Goes Where No Other Car Has Gone Before, Sets Altitude Record

5 Dec 2023, 08:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / German carmaker Porsche announced it has set the world record for highest altitude reached in a car, a 911 climbed to 6,734 meters (22,093 feet)

 
Freedom Ship: The World's Largest Vessel Is Also a Self-Sufficient Floating City
Freedom Ship: The World's Largest Vessel Is Also a Self-Sufficient Floating City

3 Dec 2023, 01:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One of the most enduring concepts of floating cities is Freedom Ship International, a gigantic barge that would circumnavigate the earth endlessly

 
Watch the Koenigsegg Jesko Keep Its Brutal Pace and Set a Lap Record on Regular Pump Gas
Watch the Koenigsegg Jesko Keep Its Brutal Pace and Set a Lap Record on Regular Pump Gas

28 Nov 2023, 08:49 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / On 98-octane gas, the Koenigsegg Jesko hypercar comes with 1,280 hp, whereas its twin-turbo V8 would've produced 1,600 hp on E85

 
Ferrari SF90 XX Laps Fiorano Circuit Quicker Than All Other Production Ferraris Before It
Ferrari SF90 XX Laps Fiorano Circuit Quicker Than All Other Production Ferraris Before It

15 Nov 2023, 15:07 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The most extreme road-going Ferrari yet also happens to be the quickest series-production Fezza at Fiorano. Who would have thought, huh?

 
1956 Chrysler 300B: The First American Production Car To Make One HP per Cubic Inch
1956 Chrysler 300B: The First American Production Car To Make One HP per Cubic Inch

15 Nov 2023, 11:25 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Powered by a first-generation HEMI FirePower, the 300B was one of the fastest, most potent and luxurious cars of the 1950s

 
REV Ocean, World's Biggest and Most Expensive Megayacht, Resumes Construction
REV Ocean, World's Biggest and Most Expensive Megayacht, Resumes Construction

11 Nov 2023, 13:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The REV Ocean Foundation announces construction has resumed after a 2-year hiatus, will result in a longer hull and some streamlining to overcome "challenges'

 
Millionaire Collector Michael Fux Buys 2 Rolls-Royce Spectres Just to Claim Another Record
Millionaire Collector Michael Fux Buys 2 Rolls-Royce Spectres Just to Claim Another Record

10 Nov 2023, 13:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The first full-electric Spectre delivered to the U.S. goes into the Fux Collection but is what the billionaire calls “the ghetto car,” a fill-in

 
DerBus: Titanic-Sized Articulated Bus Is the World's Biggest and Most Luxurious Motorhome
DerBus: Titanic-Sized Articulated Bus Is the World's Biggest and Most Luxurious Motorhome

23 Oct 2023, 11:45 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The first of a limited series of Neoplan Jumbocruiser articulated doubled-deckers and believed to be the sole survivor, DerBus is still around, still badass

 
Move Over, Plaid and Sapphire: Student-Built 'Mythen' Hits 62 MPH in Less Than One Second!
Move Over, Plaid and Sapphire: Student-Built 'Mythen' Hits 62 MPH in Less Than One Second!

12 Sep 2023, 13:02 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Please read that one more time. Now, again, aloud: a contraption that looks like an improvised go-kart (essentially that!) reached 62 mph in 0.956 seconds

 
Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo Climbs So High in Tibet It Sets New Altitude Change Record
Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo Climbs So High in Tibet It Sets New Altitude Change Record

12 Sep 2023, 07:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo is now in the Guinness World Record for the greatest altitude change by an electric car record

 
The Pizza-Dough-Moto Is the World’s First Bike With a Pizza Oven in the Back
The Pizza-Dough-Moto Is the World’s First Bike With a Pizza Oven in the Back

10 Sep 2023, 03:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Colin Furze’s latest contraption won’t “change the future of pizza delivery for ever,” but it’s an awesome addition to his impressive portfolio of contraptions

 
ArtExplorer: World’s Largest Sailing Catamaran Is Here to Offer Both Luxury and Education
ArtExplorer: World’s Largest Sailing Catamaran Is Here to Offer Both Luxury and Education

7 Sep 2023, 05:56 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Perini Navi has launched the ArtExplorer sailing cat, with plans for a public debut at the 2023 Monaco Yacht Show, before it becomes a free-for-all museum

 
Rimac Nevera Is the Fastest Production EV at the Nurburgring, yet Slower Than a 911 GT3
Rimac Nevera Is the Fastest Production EV at the Nurburgring, yet Slower Than a 911 GT3

19 Aug 2023, 00:58 UTC · By: Florin Amariei / The world's most well-known track has a new zero-tailpipe emission king – the Nevera. But it's still nowhere as fast as some gas-powered cars

 
Electric Toyota Land Cruiser Breaks World Record by Driving 7 km Underwater
Electric Toyota Land Cruiser Breaks World Record by Driving 7 km Underwater

31 Jul 2023, 09:33 UTC · By: Ancuta Iosub / A 1978 Toyota Land Cruiser has been waterproofed and converted to an electric drivetrain to be driven on the sea floor of Darwin Harbour

 
This Record-Breaking U.S. Superyacht Finds Amazing New Purpose at the Bottom of the Ocean
This Record-Breaking U.S. Superyacht Finds Amazing New Purpose at the Bottom of the Ocean

20 Jul 2023, 16:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / When it was delivered in 1987 by Palmer Johnson Yachts, Time was the world’s largest aluminum superyacht. It is now an artificial reef in Florida

 
Remembering SUMPAC: The World's First Flying Bicycle and Human-Powered Plane
Remembering SUMPAC: The World's First Flying Bicycle and Human-Powered Plane

16 Jul 2023, 00:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In 1961, the Southampton University Man Powered Aircraft became the first human-powered aircraft to make an officially authenticated takeoff and flight

 
This Striking Superyacht Is World’s Largest Wooden Vessel, but a Very Modern Beast
This Striking Superyacht Is World’s Largest Wooden Vessel, but a Very Modern Beast

14 Jul 2023, 09:49 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / 164 footer is designed as a nod to the past but with very modern tech, and no expense spared in terms of amenities and finishes