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icelandpictures:

This picture is from the Laugavegur trail in Iceland. The mountain pictured is Stóra Súla (E. Big Column), on the section between the Hvanngil and Emstrur huts. The hyper green moss along the river banks is typical for Iceland. We call it dýjamosi (E. bog moss). It will often cover considerable areas and although it may look stable it can typically swallow an unexperienced hiker up to his waist. This is a much more entertaining experience for his companions than himself.

Here is another picture of dýjamosi on a black sand in south Iceland. Also check out other great pictures of Iceland by Alex Nail.

asaucerfulofwheels:

Porsche artworks by Shin Yoshikawa

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Carroll Shelby’s 1968 Shelby Cobra EXP500 CSS Black Hornett

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1964 Dodge Hemi Charger

topgear:

Finally! A future car that looks like it’s from The Future! The BMW i8 Spyder

We’ve seen the concept and if you’ve seen Mission Impossible 4, you’ve seen the coupe. Now, here’s the BMW i8 Spyder:

It’ll be unveiled at this year’s Beijing auto show later this month and is, as you’d imagine, a pretty good sign that Munich’s going to give us a drop-top to join the i8 coupe. For those hard of memory, that’s the 155mph, 100mpg sportster due to land in showrooms come 2014.

BMW has kept the swan doors, which swivel up like the wings of a, umm, swan… They’re retained thanks to the amount of carbon that’s used in the i8’s super-stiff passenger ‘Life’ cell, which is made from carbonfibre reinforced plastic (CFRP).

Underneath, there’s an aluminium chassis with a lithium-ion battery buttered along its length, keeping the centre of gravity nice and low and achieving a 50:50 weight distribution. It’s got the same plug-in powertrain as the coupe, too; a petro-electro melange of 129bhp electric motor driving the front wheels and three-cylinder turbo petrol engine sending 220bhp to the rears (that’s 349bhp in all).

All together, it makes 406lb ft of torque, which gets it from 0-62mph in 5.0 seconds and a tethered top speed of 155mph. And it’s claimed it can do 20 miles of FWD on the battery alone.

asaucerfulofwheels:

1934 Ford Model 40 Special Speedster

allthingseurope:

 Bjarnarey ,Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland (by Zanthia)

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1970 Ferrari 512 S Modulo by Pininfarina

topgear:

Meet the new Viper, now with more… civilization.

(Somehow our photo gallery and description disappeared from our post, which is fine by us…. It gives us a reason to blog the entire thing again.)

When the original Dodge Viper debuted over twenty years ago, it was known for being a beast of a car with a cheap, minimalist interior (watch Jeremy’s review from Top Gear Series 5). Well the new Viper, now by Chrysler’s SRT division and under Fiat ownership, has a new interior that’s being described as downright “luxurious.” Perhaps the new Viper is all grown up:

Well, sort of. There’s still an aircraft carrier-length bonnet atop a massive V10 engine, cab-back driving position and a side-exit exhaust. So far, so enjoyably juvenile. But the latest iteration’s lighter, stiffer, more advanced, easier to drive and also sight more pleasant inside.

There’s a carbon fibre bonnet, roof and boot lid, which has whittled weight down to 1455kg, some 55 kilos lighter than the old car, and a huge 50 per cent stiffer. And there’s an upgraded version of Dodge’s 8.4-litre V10 producing - in basic form - 640bhp and 600lb ft of torque. That makes it the torqueiest naturally aspirated engine to be fitted to a sports car… ever.

But inside is where there’s the biggest surprise - it’s actually luxurious. And not just ‘luxurious for a Viper’ either. The cow peelings are soft and sumptuous, the stereo is by Harman Kardon, the abundance of screens are TFT, there’s not a solitary centimeter of wibbly stitching. There’s also 40mm more headroom and 90mm more legroom. This is a car you could feasibly use every day, not just when you fancy peering over the edge of existence.

Get the low down at TopGear.com

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1954 Mercury Monterrey XM-800