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Toyota DKR GR FC Hilux Hydrogen Truck

Toyota’s DKR GR FC Hilux Is a Fuel-Cell Pickup That Will Race in the Dakar Rally on Water Alone

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Toyota DKR GR FC Hilux Hydrogen Truck
Gazoo Racing is sending a Hilux into the 2027 Dakar Rally that will never touch gasoline. Called the DKR GR FC Hilux, the truck keeps the tubular chassis, short wheelbase, high fenders and long-travel suspension of the GR DKR Hilux EVO T1+ that has already won the event four times, then pulls the twin-turbo V6 and puts a Toyota fuel cell in its place. Hydrogen and oxygen meet in the stack, electricity feeds the motors, and the only thing leaving the tailpipe is water. That is the entire plan for 13 timed stages and 1,000 competitive kilometers across Saudi sand, rock and dry riverbeds from January 1 to 15, 2027.

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Plaion NeoGeo AES+ Delay TGS 2026

Plaion’s Neo Geo AES+ Slips to September 2027 After Tokyo Game Show Finally Hands You the Hardware

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Plaion Neo Geo AES+ Delay TGS 2026
Photo credit: BFBulletin
Plaion Replai pushed the worldwide launch of Neo Geo AES+ from November 12, 2026 to Thursday, September 16, 2027, blaming a mix of unexpectedly high demand and a global squeeze on memory chips driven by AI infrastructure. Official wording is blunt: the company cannot build enough units for a proper worldwide launch this year, and shipping a thin November batch would have meant instant sell-outs and secondary-market chaos. Commercial director Ben Jones said Plaion looked at every way to keep the original timetable, then chose extra time to lock down more chips and expand factories rather than shortchange the people already in line.

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BMW iX5 Hydrogen Production Fuel Cell Test Drive

BMW iX5 Hydrogen Leaves Camouflage Behind and Heads for the Factory Floor

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BMW iX5 Hydrogen Production Fuel Cell Test Drive
BMW rolled uncamouflaged iX5 Hydrogen prototypes into public view this month and followed them with a new video of the hardware, a pairing that finally makes the project look like a car headed for customers instead of another closed-door experiment. Officials in Munich said the current fleet is running a full validation program while the third-generation fuel cell system enters a fresh assembly phase, and Plant Steyr in Austria is already taking delivery of test benches and production gear. Those three tracks running at once is the point. BMW wants the first hydrogen model it will actually sell to leave the development loop with factory processes already practiced, not invented after the last prototype is signed off.

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GPT-6 Astra Minecraft Creeper Explode Farmed Potatoes

GPT-6 Astra Reached the Nether in Minecraft, Lost Its Stash to a Creeper, and Farmed Potatoes for Hours

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GPT-6 Astra Minecraft Creeper Explode Farmed Potatoes
Vals AI, a completely independent evaluator, tested OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra by throwing it into Minecraft and allowing it to its own tools for 141 hours with only ordinary computer controls: screen, mouse, and keyboard. No fancy game-modifying plug-ins were employed. Thousands of people tuned in to the Twitch stream to watch how it performed. Which wasn’t surprising given that the first, shorter attempt had already created a Nether portal in two and a half hours, long before the game had ever been released. Finally, Astra was the first system Vals had witnessed approach a Nether Castle.

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Khyzyl Saleem Group B Rally Car Hyundai IONIQ 5 N

First Look at Group B IONIQ 5 N, Khyzyl Saleem’s Widebody Rally Concept

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Khyzyl Saleem Group B Rally Car Hyundai IONIQ 5 N
Photo credit: The Kyza
Khyzyl Saleem stretched Hyundai’s IONIQ 5 N into a Group B-inspired rally car that looks ready to leave the tarmac and start hunting special stages. Saleem produced the renders for Hyundai USA as a follow-up to last month’s Baja Santa Fe concept, packing the already angular N hatch with period-correct 1980s rally aggression and a bodykit that completely changes its proportions.

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Endless Light Danny MacAskill Bosch E-Bike Norway

Endless Light Shows Danny MacAskill on a Bosch-Powered Santa Cruz Vala E-Bike in Norway’s Midnight Granite

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Endless Light Danny MacAskill Bosch E-Bike Norway
Scottish rider Danny MacAskill has wanted to experience Norway’s granite slabs for years. This summer he gathered friends, pointed a camera crew north, and spent days on the rock around Narvik while the midnight sun hung in the sky and refused to leave. Bosch eBike Systems backed the short film that came out of that trip, titled Endless Light.

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Mike Lake 3D-Printed Porsche GT3 RS GT3D

Mike Lake Printed a $750,000 Porsche GT3 RS and Took It to Sydney

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Mike Lake 3D-Printed Porsche GT3 RS GT3D
Mike Lake wanted a Porsche 992 GT3 RS and refused to wait for a lottery allocation or a secondhand bill north of $750,000 Australian ($535,000). He bought a tired 986 Boxster for about $13,000, drove two thousand kilometers to collect it, and set out to wrap that mid-engine roadster in a full-size printed replica. He calls the result GT3D. Consumer printers, PETG filament, and a garage in Melbourne did the rest.

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