cars

  • German police waste $33 million on useless cars

    The police force in Hesse, Germany, has bought a fleet of 800 cars that cannot be used for municipal service. The cars – Opel’s Insignia Sports Tourer – are small and efficient, but are unsuitable for a variety of police uses. The police found that while wearing their utility...
  • Thanksgiving Corvette drag race ends in humiliating failure

    Don’t try this at home folks. The video below shows what happens when you get an idiot in a Corvette C5 and dummkopf in a Corvette C6 and you stick them next to each other at a traffic light on Thanksgiving Day. It ends badly, but not fatally, which...
  • James Bond record beaten by 64-year old stuntman

    Move over Bond… Rocky’s shattering your records. Stuntman Rocky Taylor has broken the Guiness World Record previously held by another stunt double for largest piece of glass smashed by a car driving through it. The previous record was filmed for Die Another Day and the stuntman drove Bond’s Aston...
  • Fan gets hit by Formula 1 Red Bull Vehicle [video]

    Bad idea: Running across a street without looking both ways A REALLY bad idea: Trying to cross a track during a Formula 1 demonstration That is what happened to a unidentified spectator during a Sebastien Buemi’s Red Bull show car demo in Japan. The demo which was part of...
  • Hidden garage keeps up appearances, adds valuable parking space

    You live in an area where parking spaces are at a premium, have a Victorian style apartment building and don’t want to screw up its aesthetics by sticking a big ugly parking bay underneath it, what do you do? You could do what one building owner in San Francisco’s...
  • Coming soon to your driveway; Laser Spark Plugs!

    For the last 100 years or so, the internal combustion engine has been following a simple design, a spark plug, designed to arc some high electrical current creates a spark, which ignites an air/fuel mixture and propels the piston back down the cylinder, generating the energy required to move...
  • Tonight on UFC: Runaway Tractor vs Suzuki SX4 deathmatch!

    The above video, filmed in “shakey-uncle-zoom-vision” shows a runaway tractor going round on a thankfully quite empty Richmond Hill Wal-Mart parking lot. It does eventually wind up destroying a poor Suzuki SX4, damaging what looks like either a Civic or an Acura (essentially the same car), and finally stopping...
  • Mirror sticker will make you feel like a winner

    I’ve got this thing that I do to occupy myself during my mind numbing commute sometimes – I pick some random car that is slowly fighting its way through peak hour traffic… and I race it. My races don’t involve dangerous speeds or anything like that – just deft...
  • The see through car factory

    Many car makers make many claims, but few would invite the public into the factory to see first hand what they do. In fact, few would welcome prospective buyers onto the factory floor to help build their future car. Not so VW in Dresden, Germany. This video is worth...