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On New Year's Day, while you were complaining about the Gregorian calendar or nursing a wicked hangover, I was hurtling around a snow-covered racetrack, en route to destroying a perfectly good Saturn station wagon. More »
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New Year's Day approaches, when brave warriors at an enduro destructo-race will don protective helmets and strap themselves to mighty vehicles of destruction, destined to wage war on the frozen fields of a wreckage-strewn wasteland. More »
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There's been a lot of work done to the io9 Apocalypsemobile in the last few weeks, not all of it as glaringly obvious as the custom paint job. The car has a certain Tank Girl/David Lee Roth circa 1985 vibe going on - at least it will be a colorful Apocalypse. We've picked up some additional sponsors and made some safety and performance upgrades in preparation for the January 1 race. The project has not been without setbacks, though. More »
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Work on the io9 Apocalypsemobile continues at a feverish pace. We've got an update on the Mad Maxification of our '94 Saturn station wagon, and there's still a lot to get done in the next few days if we want to race in this weekend's "Super Saturday Four-Cylinder Enduro." Reciprocal saws - is there anything they can't do? Check out our plans to make the car deathproof (I hope). More »
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The field is strewn with the battered hulks of 100 cars, some of them spinning their wheels futilely in the half-frozen winter mud. Others are utterly consumed by fire, pillars of black smoke dividing the sky. It's a scene of total post-apocalyptic Mad Max-esque chaos, and in a few months, I'll be right in the middle of it, behind the wheel of the io9 Apocalypsemobile. More »
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