Our collection of wild custom cars

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Asia’s wildest custom cars Rocket-launching, rainbow-splattered streamline babies off In Asia, custom cars -- altered for looks or performance -- are pimped-out. There goes (Varoom! Varoom!) that J-pop painted (Thphhhhhh!) robot-transforming ...
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New GPS device and service verge on the bizarre, intrusive

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mobile karaoke and GPS coupons From mobile car karaoke to smart coupons that know where shoppers are, GPS is everywhere Let the rolling Karaoke competitions begin with Sony's new GPS Nav-u. We’d be naive to believe modern consumer tech isn’t at least ...
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Japanese carmakers aim for world domination with new ‘smart’ DoCoMo sat-nav

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Toyota, Nissan and Honda dumb down GPS programming through DoCoMo smartphones Toyota’s Lexus already features some high-end navigation technology but DoCoMo aims to make it even simpler to use by moving route planning into the cloud. Telecoms giant ...
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Highlights from the Tokyo Motor Show

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Highlights from the Tokyo Motor Show From freakish to functional (sort of), very experimental vehicles were unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show -- we have the pictures The press release didn't mention it, but the inspiration for Yamaha's EC-f motorcycle ...
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