Local Motors’ Latest Is a Drifting, Electric Big Wheel for Grownups

Local Motors' Latest Is a Drifting, Electric Big Wheel for Grownups

The crowd-design gearheads at Local Motors are at it again, with a Kickstarter project that will make your inner eight-year-old hyperventilate: the Verrado, a motorized, grown-up sized Big Wheel that drifts.

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​Razor Crazy Cart Review: Even More Fun Than It Looks

When I was a kid, the Big Wheel endgame was to pedal down the driveway, then peel out in a Mario Kart-esque sliding turn. That typically meant more skinned chins and elbows than glory. Razor’s Crazy Cart, though, lets me drift to my heart’s content. You want fun? This thing’s got fun.

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How Formula Drift Secretly Built The World’s Most Powerful Road Racecars

How Formula Drift Secretly Built The World's Most Powerful Road Racecars

Without anyone noticing, Formula Drift cars became quite possibly the most powerful racers of their kind in any competition anywhere in the world. How do I know this? Because I drove Tony Angelo’s 705 wheel horsepower Scion FR-S… and crashed it.

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Get Driftin’ With Razor’s Crazy Cart

Get Driftin’ With Razor’s Crazy Cart

Razor, the company behind those silver scooters, is still around and pumping out vehicular fun of all shapes and sizes, including a 55-pound drifting machine called the Crazy Cart that looks fantastically fun.

    

Nothing Has Ever (Or Will Ever) Look as Fun as This Driftable Go-Kart

Razor can be as proud as they want for making scooters cool again, but what the company will really go down in history for is this creation: a go-kart called the Crazy Cart that turns anyone at the wheel into a master drifter.

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