Spring is here, and it's the perfect time to discover fresh feelings of adventure.If you are willing to explore your need for speed, then RepoKar is the right place for you! RepoKar is a fun, high-octane online Public Auto Auction where you'r...
The D-Type is one of the most famous Jaguars ever. Since with fame usually comes fortune, the few remaining D-Types out there command outrageous prices at auctions. In fact, the car is expected to fetch around $4 million, which would put it right up there with some of the most expensive Ferrari cars from the era.One of only 54 cars produced for privateer customers, this XCD 530 chassis has been used mainly for ice racing, believe it or not, as the car was originally sold to a Finnish professional tennis player who was also known for his racing exploits in F3 midget cars and a Jaguar C-Type.&nb...
Hot rods are typically old, classic American cars with large engines modified in various ways to achieve higher performance. The vast majority of the cars being run were four-cylinder Ford Model Ts or their successor, the four-cylinder Model A as these models were cheap, plentiful, lightweight, and easy to work on. Nobody knows for sure the origin of the term "hot rod", but there is a theory that it was originated by the fact that burning out the connecting rod bearings was a very common failure mode for souped up vehicles, and "hot rod" could refer to t...
Who would have known that it's the diesel vehicles, which for decades have been proclaimed as friendly-environment cars, are the ones that actually pollute the atmosphere most of them all? Experts blame on diesel engine pollution thousands of early deaths' cases per year. Shocking, isn't it? It has been asserted recently that the diesel vehicles are more polluting than gasoline vehicles and do not return better mileage as it was considered earlier. Europe and England, where they have the biggest number of this type of cars, are finally seeing their mistake. London and Pa...
In movies, it's usually the good guys who drive the best cars. Pick any James Bond films, for example, and it’s as a rule the coolest ride you'd spot him riding. Same to any other of our favorite movies. But this time the super cool car was destined to belong to a great villain - Johan Schmidt, better known to Marvel Comics hero Captain America as the Red Skull. We present you the V-16-powered Schmidt Hydra Coupe! The open-air coupe (why was it even named a 'coupe' in the first place is anyone's guess!) is powered by a V-16 airplane engine, and power is sent to all si...
Marine Technology Incorporated and a powerboat manufacturer by the name of Pier 57 has got inspired by Corvette Carbon Fiber to build a new age speed boat, that goes for about $1.7 million! They crafted this ZR1 Corvette inspired 2,700hp powerboat built from carbon fiber in Tennessee – this beauty can take you literally flying across the waters at 180 mph! The boat has a pair of 1,350hp turbocharged Mercury Marine V8 engines rather than the Vette’s LS9 engine. The boat is larger than a conventual size speed boat and being too large for most roads, it includes a custom t...
