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Cornell's SAE Baja buggy helps us get even with would-be alma mater

How much horsepower do you need to have fun in a car? More is usually better, but sometimes less is okay too. Sometimes even none is enough – if you have gravity on your side. When you're running off-road through mud, rocks, up hills, crashing off of whoops and flying over jumps, you certainly can't rely on the attraction of physical bodies to get you around the course. You need power. Cornell's Baja SAE buggy admittedly doesn't have much, driven by a lowly 10-hp Briggs & Stratton that wouldn't look out of place on a lawnmower. ... Read more →

eBay Find of the Day: Malcolm Bricklin's very own 1970 Meyers Manx SR Jonathon Ramsey

The Meyers Manx SR (for "Street Roadster") was the roadgoing version of Meyers' seminal, frog-eyed dune buggy. There were ten built at Meyers' factory in Fountain Valley, and the 1970-vintage ...

Mitsubishi MRX09 "Racing Lancer" to tackle Dakar in '09 Alex Nunez

Micron to use Baja 1000 to prove chip reliability Eric Bryant

Nissan Moon city-car concept Noah Joseph

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Cornell's SAE Baja buggy helps us get even with would-be alma mater 18 days ago on Autoblog

eBay Find of the Day: Malcolm Bricklin's very own 1970 Meyers Manx SR 6 months ago on Autoblog

The Meyers Manx SR (for "Street Roadster") was the roadgoing version of Meyers' seminal, frog-eyed dune buggy. There were ten built at Meyers' factory in Fountain Valley, and the 1970-vintage example you see above was built for that other kit car icon, Malcolm Bricklin. For sale right now on ...

Mitsubishi MRX09 "Racing Lancer" to tackle Dakar in '09 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above image to enlarge The purpose-built rally car that Mitsubishi fields in the no-longer-aptly-named 2009 Dakar (the venue for the race is now South America, remember) will shed its Pajero moniker as well as the nominal styling elements that tied it to the Mitsu SUV. Instead, the new MRX09 ...

Micron to use Baja 1000 to prove chip reliability 3 years ago on Autoblog

Testing new semiconductor products doesn't always have to be boring - or at least not when a chipmaker is run by an ex-motocrosser. Micron CEO Steve Appleton will be driving a Porsche-powered Baja Tour Car buggy in the upcoming SCORE Baja 1000, and his company's Lexar flash memory and image sensing ...

Nissan Moon city-car concept 3 years ago on Autoblog

Designer Robert Hoffmann drew up this Nissan concept for an auto magazine. The futuristic conveyance is not intended for production, but it's an interesting exercise just the same. The oversized rear wheels are slanted inward, and move backward for highway cruising, optimizing space when retracted ...

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