by Fast Machines | Jul 31, 2015 | Fast And Dangerous
Any McLaren F1 is a unicorn, but the ultra-rare F1 LM-Specification cars are unicorns among unicorns. How rare? Only two were ever built. On average, ‘standard’ F1s routinely clear $10 million at auction, which is nothing to sneeze at, but the two LM-Specification...
by Fast Machines | Jul 31, 2015 | Fast And Dangerous
’Tis the season, apparently, to get hacky. In the wake of the Wired story that saw a Jeep Cherokee in a ditch after pair of hackers took control of the ute remotely via a UConnect vulnerability comes the announcement of OwnStar, a little black box that executes a...
by Fast Machines | Jul 31, 2015 | Exterior
Most cars’ journey through a single life cycle—from launch to midterm update to giving way to something newer—can be tracked through the massaging of fascias, tweaks to head- and taillights, and updates to the available color palette. In the case of Chrysler’s...
by Fast Machines | Jul 31, 2015 | Auto News
One hacker claims he has a device that can take over any GM vehicle equipped with OnStar. Samy Kamkar calls his device OwnStar and built it for around $100 and allows the hacker to lock, unlock and start the car. Unlike the recent Jeep Cherokee and Uconnect hack,...
by Fast Machines | Jul 30, 2015 | Fast And Dangerous
Posted on 07.26.2015 18:00 by Richard Rowe The world today is full of all kinds of incredible hot rods. Open the pages of any magazine, and you’ll see everything from low-buck, stripped-down street thrashers that specialize in straight-line acceleration, to...
