Joe Biden Has a Car Curse

The vice president's motorcade was in a midtown Manhattan crash last night, their third in one week (three means trend), one of which caused a fatality. [Gawker]

Family Guy Shows What a Flinstones Car Chase Would Look Like

Family Guy's cut scenes are hit and miss a lot of times. This one, however, was brilliant. [Gawker.TV]

Detroit: Murder Murder Murder, Kill Kill Kill

Rugged personality-possessing newspaperman Charlie LeDuff can typically be found roaming Detroit in search of frozen hobo bodies and colorful raccoon hunters. Today, he has a more serious topic: Enough violence to make you...well, never want to go to Detroit. [Gawker]

'Stripper-Mobile' Proves Every Las Vegas Stereotype Correct

Just read an article about a truck that drives around Las Vegas with a stripper dancing in it, and boy are my preconceived notions about that place tired (from being completely confirmed.) Whatever happens in Vegas, is ridiculous in Vegas. [Gawker]

Why Pickup Trucks Shouldn't Be Used As Ambulances

We're glad that Congress has made progress on improving America's broken health care system, but let's not lose perspective. At least we don't need full-fledged ambulance reform, too! [Gawker.TV]

Fan-Made Replicas of Science Fiction's Favorite Land Vehicles

While some science fiction fans like to dress as their favorite character, some handy fans prefer to dress up their cars as incredibly detailed replicas of movie machines. We take a look at the futuristic vehicles on the road today. [io9]

In The Future, Your Car Will Know All About You

You may think that your GPS has a superior attitude now, but imagine if you could see its expression as you take a wrong turn for the seventh time. A new "driving companion" adds a little personality to your directions. [io9]

Badvertising: Get The Same Car The Sparkle Vamp Drives

Thanks, AdWeek, for alerting me to the marketing campaign which broke my brain. Seriously. Twilight CARS? [Jezebel]

The New Corporate Compact (Car, To Live In)

The Way We Live Now: In a new way. Which is not to imply it's a worse way. It's just new, and different. Corporate America hasn't been doing so well. They need...a "new deal," if you will. [Gawker]

Forget All Other Tributes: Presenting The Favre Firebird

Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to tips@deadspin.com. Subject: Morning crap. [Deadspin]

Boob-y Ad Drives Britons Crazy

This "piss poor excuse of an ad" has been banned in England. The billboard, which reads "Nice Headlamps: What do you look for in a car?" was judged to be offensive, and many agree, frankly kind of lazy. [Adrants, Copyranter] [Jezebel]

The Cars Of Need For Speed: Nitro Part 1

EA's casual installment of the Need for Speed franchise is coming to the Wii next month, and we've got a first look at the colorful car lineup for Need for Speed: Nitro. [Kotaku]

Forza 3 Races Towards Release With Free DLC

Forza Motorsport 3's impressive list of more than 400 cars and 100 tracks gets even larger on launch day, with 10 more cars and 2 more tracks in the free Motorsports Legends Car Pack. [Kotaku]

Gran Turismo PSP Review: Steady As A Pace Car

The long promised PlayStation Portable entry in Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo series has finally arrived, putting the essence of the "Real Driving Simulator" in your pocket. [Kotaku]

MotionX GPS Drive Review: Hands Down the Best Value In GPS Apps

People bitching about TomTom's $100 iPhone navigation app can either a) bitch louder or b) download MotionX GPS Drive by Fullpower. It's $3 per month or $25 per year, and it works just fine. [Gizmodo]

Bloomberg to Make it Easier to Park the Car You Live In Now

What is our billionaire Mayor-for-life up to, today? Oh, he has some great ideas for parking! He will make it so easy to park in New York, if you just give him one more term. Parking will be his legacy. [Gawker]

Zipcar App Finally Hits the Streets: Use An iPhone to Find and Unlock Your Rental Car

First shown at WWDC, the free app can extend reservations, browse available models, and find your car—on a map, or by honking the horn remotely. It's a polished effort, but you still can't forget your Zipcard. Here's why: [Gizmodo]

You Say "Big Fat" Like It's A Bad Thing

Note to gas station employees: When describing a customer in writing, maybe go with something a little more nuanced than "black lady big fat." Especially when you know someone's going to hand her the paper you wrote that on. [UPI] [Jezebel]

Real Racing Will Affect Gran Turismo

This August, Gran Turismo designer Kazunori Yamauchi did more than drive on Germany's famed Nurburgring, he finished won the VLN race— his third race and first in an actual racing car. But what does this mean for Gran Turismo? [Kotaku]

Create A New, Greener Car - And Become A Reality TV Star In The Process!

Turns out that the revolution of personal transportation vehicles will be televised after all. Plans have been announced to make a reality show out of the contest to win the Automotive X Prize. [io9]

GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Preview: Crimes For The Crazy Rich

Niko Bellic never had friends, missions or "toys" like Luis Lopez gets next month. [Kotaku]

Tekken Much?

As seen by Stance Is Everything At Importfest in Toronto. [Thanks Dave] [Kotaku]

24 Monitors Inside: Japan's Most Insane Custom Cars Make Ground Effects Kits Look Pathetic

In Japan, they take custom cars seriously. Just look at some of these! A Buddhist priest spent $110,000 creating a car with gullwings, scissor doors and a splithood. Oh, and then there's the $280,000 Batman van. [Gizmodo]

Felicia Day's Psychotic Fairy Sings About Doing It Dragon Style

The Legend of Neil musical episode has finally been released, featuring the whole cast breaking out in song — including Felicia Day's sex-crazed flasher fairy from season one. It's probably NSFW. [io9]

Tesla's Precarious Reprieve

Huge infusions of money would seem to have helped Tesla Motors: the electric-car startup has escaped a bitter lawsuit from founder Martin Eberhard and finally sited a power-train factory — and that's just this week. But other fights loom. [Gawker]

Taxi Driving a Better Route to Success than Wall Street

This is the new path to success: quit Wall Street, drive a cab, and then make it big in the TV business. Are you listening, laid off derivatives traders? It works! [Gawker]

Man Asserts Dominion Over Nature, Hits Horse With Rally Car

Here's a photo of an Argentine rally driver running into a herd of wild horses somewhere in the Patagonian hills. One of them had to be put down. This is basically a metaphor for the industrial revolution. [Deadspin]

We Aren't Seeing Transformers 3 If This Thing's Not in It

The Krupp's Bagger 228 is more than meets the eye. It is the world's largest digging machine, and it moves! If Michael Bay hasn't already ordered it up for the screenplay, he's not doing his job.
[Gawker]

TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100

After rolling-out across much of the western world this weekend, TomTom's eagerly-awaited turn-by-turn navigation app for the iPhone is now available to those in the US and Canada. [Gizmodo]

Michael Phelps Involved In Car Crash

Don't worry, the sea god was uninjured when his Escalade plowed into another car in downtown Baltimore. But let's not forget he's already on probation for a DUI...[WJZ] [Deadspin]

Suri Cruise is Riding Around L.A. on a Gold Lexus

A tipster in Los Angeles just sent us this picture, snapped from his car on Los Feliz Blvd., right up the street from Scientology's Mission of Los Feliz. So, who was driving the car? [Gawker]

Get the Best Cash for Clunkers Deal

The U.S. government's Cash for Clunkers rebate program is popular with both consumers and headline writers, but some cars might not be worth trading in under its guidelines. Time suggests five things to think about before handing over your keys. [Lifehacker]

In Russia, Snowblowers Use Mig-15 Jets

I like when secrets are finally revealed, like the crazy Sukhoi Su-35 ejection. And I absolutely love it when the answers are really weird, like with the strange jet truck mystery I posted about on Tuesday. [Gizmodo]

No, You Cannot Be BMW (Or Any Other Big Corporation) on Facebook

Facesquatters beware: Facebook is coming for you. The social network rolled out short usernames less than two months ago, now it's starting to revoke the ones it doesn't like. [Gawker]

Baby Driver: Second-Grader Who Stole Car & Evaded Police Gets 4 Days Of "Punishment"

Times have changed: in my day, the consequences of taking a car on a joyride because you don't want to attend church were a lot more Biblical than a trip to NYC, national TV exposure and four days without videogames. [Jezebel]

Lisa Mayfield Did Not Appreciate The "Whore" Remarks

NASCAR's Jeremy Mayfield is being sued by his stepmother, Lisa, for "slanderous, false and defamatory statements" she says he made about her. You mean the murdering whore thing? Wait ... you were upset about? [Deadspin]

A Comprehensive Ranking Of The Products Inside A Good Humor Truck

One of the good things about being a parent is that, during the summer, you're fully justified in eating all the goddamn ice cream you want. [Deadspin]

Cambridge Cop's Unfortunate Vanity Plate: WHY-TEE

After Barack Obama said Cambridge cops "stupidly" arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates on the front porch of his own home, the police said they "deeply resent the implication" anyone would think they're racists. Maybe clue this Cambridge cop in. [Gawker]

Tron 2's Test Footage Still Makes Our Light Cycles Tingle

You may remember the light cycle footage with the big reveal from last year's Comic Con. Well, Disney has released the footage at last — see the bearded Bridges glory! [io9]

"Top Gear" Gets A New Topless Model (And Her Name Is Madison Welch) [NSFW]

What's the one thing better than fast cars? Fast cars...with hot babes in the front seat. Especially babes like Madison Welch, who makes a cameo appearance on this Sunday's episode of British car show "Top Gear." [Fleshbot]

The Pick-Up Artist

Oldskool curbside racial profiling is so last century (last season?) As Tracy Morgan explained on Letterman last night, nowadays, the premier transportation problem facing Lamborghini-owning African-American males is being mistaken for the taxi drivers who used to pass them by. [Jezebel]

NYT To America's Teenage Drivers: Stop Texing, Goddamnit!

You know you've done things while driving besides driving. Old ppl at the Times would like you to know: it's bad, shame on you, and you should play our video game to see how good at it you are. [Gawker]

Jeremy Mayfield Goes To War Against NASCAR And His "Whore" Stepmom

As noted last night, NASCAR says that Jeremy Mayfield failed another drug test, but he has fired back with even more outrageous countercharges—like implying NASCAR's chairman is on drugs and flat-out accusing his stepmother of murdering his father. [Deadspin]

Forza 3 Will Deliver Nearly Limitless Online Multiplayer Variety

More than anything, Forza Motorsport 3's greatest challenge is perhaps its greatest strength. [Kotaku]

Bake a Delicious, Healthy Pizza On Your Way to Work

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and how many of you drive to work each morning without any pizza in your stomach? This travesty shall be amended! [Gizmodo]

The Transformers Sequel Is Loud, Obnoxious, and Loud

As it lurches toward us, metal gears clanking and whirring like Larry King at a mixer, early reviews of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen come trickling in. The word? Basically it's loud and garish and, worst of all, not fun. [Gawker]

Have You Seen This Car? [NSFW]

This is Joanna Angel. This is her Escalade, which was recently stolen. If you see it, please alert Joanna! (For more pictures of the car (and the girl), mosey on over here). (twitter.com) [Fleshbot]

Forza 3: Car Porn in Motion

Forza Motorsport 3 is car porn in motion. [Kotaku]

Gran Turismo Creator Explains PSP Delays, Talks Controls & Online Play

Prior to E3 2009, Gran Turismo for the PSP was largely considered vaporware, a driving simulation that felt like little more than a five-year-old announcement. But Gran Turismo is real—and it's coming to the PlayStation Portable this October. [Kotaku]

Exclusive: Fox Newser Accused of Dragging Cyclist Through Central Park

In typical Fox News fashion, when we asked a Fox News writer how a Central Park cyclist ended up being dragged on the hood of his SUV for four blocks, he blamed the victim, calling the biker a "vigilante." [Gawker]

More Schlock for your Jock

A new schlock-peddler has appeared on the infomercial scene. This one's trying to sell you a pill that will give you vampire "powers" (read: sexual prowess) without the side-effects of crisping in sunlight or getting severe lacerations from a silver bracelet. [BloodCopy]

Pimp My Hearse

Here's a car club you gearheads/vampire fans will like: Dead Ends, dedicated to one kind of car. Hearses. [BloodCopy]

Dealzmodo: Free iPod Touch With Purchase of $325,000 Ferrari

Ferrari's limited-edition 510-horsepower 16M convertible comes packaged with a limited-edition iPod touch of its own. The touch is loaded with Ferrari-related videos and music as well as, bizarrely, Ferrari engine noises. [Gizmodo]

Cars with Fangs

After our vampire jesus fish post from last week, we went in search of other vampire-esque auto embellishments. Guess what we found? Fangs! [BloodCopy]

You Know You Want…A Vampire Jesus Fish Car Decal

A tipster sent in this photo of a curious car adornment on the back of a normal-looking soccer-mom SUV that was parked in the parking lot of the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey. [BloodCopy]

Brilliant Girl Jumps In Front of a Pickup Truck to Save iPod

Here's an example of great priorities: a 16-year-old girl dove in front of a pickup truck to receive her dropped iPod. [Gizmodo]

Glenn Beck Tries to Convert GM CEO Fritz Henderson Into Kookdom, Fails Miserably

Today Glenn Beck, Fox News' maniacal dildo, had GM CEO Fritz Henderson on his show. Beck attempted to rope Henderson into his anti-governmentalism, even mocking Obama's "yes we can" slogan along the way, but failed. [Gawker]

Tesla Motors Moneyman Revs His Mouth on Camera

A mysterious video of a Tesla investor talking about a rumored investment in the company has popped up on YouTube. Valleywag has identified the blabbermouth: Victor Morgenstern, chairman of a Chicago private-equity fund. [Gawker]

Elon Musk Adds Mars to His Improbable Dreams

The Red Planet beckons electric-car entrepreneur Elon Musk. He's hoping to put a man on Mars by 2020. Space fanboys are placing their dreams of getting off this rock on a slender reed. [Gawker]

Google Streetview Guy Takes A Walk With Mom On Mother's Day

Awwwwwwww. Google is just so gosh darn cute sometimes. Like today. They have the little yellow Google Streetview guy walking around with his mom. Happy Mother's Day! [Gizmodo]

Planes, Blenders & Automobiles: Matt & Craig's Pissing Contest

In the clip at left, Craig Ferguson and Matthew McConaughey do what guys do: Try to one up each other as they talk about size… [Jezebel]

If You Race It Then You Gotta Put A Lid On It

[Indianapolis, May 8. Image via Getty]

[Jezebel]

CoolCop Is a Hose That Runs AC Right Into Your Shirt, But Only if You're a Cop

You know you've made it as an inventor when you're selling a vacuum cleaner hose to cops for $50 that's designed to run from their car's AC vents to their shirts. [Gizmodo]

Tesla Fanboy David Letterman Lets Motormouth CEO Off Easy

David Letterman loves his Tesla Roadster so much that he invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk onto the Late Show last night. The question he should have asked: How long will Musk keep his job? [Gawker]

Weaponizers: Remote-Controlled Armored Cars Fight Each Other To the Death

Discovery Channel's new Weaponizers mini-series sounds pretty insane: Dudes armor-plate cars, mount them with machine guns and rockets, then hide in bunkers, operating them by remote control in an ultimate to-the-death Carmageddon. Oh my. [Gizmodo]

NASCAR Still Dealing With Its Talladega Identity Crisis

I'm not sure if everyone has weighed in on the Carl Edwards restrictor plate mess, but there's been enough chatter from drivers past and present to show that everyone involved in racing has an opinion. [Deadspin]

Monumental Games Working on Next MotoGP

A new MotoGP racing game is in development by Monumental Games for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, Capcom announced today. [Kotaku]

American Autos are King Again!

The Way We Live Now: Rollin on Dubs. You can't keep the US auto industry down! Unless "you" are a superior foreign competitor. But if "you" are bankruptcy, forget it. USA car companies are back! [Gawker]

Which Whiny Actor Will Only Travel By Golf Cart?

Today we have a star who uses a big name at hotels, a TV actor who's a terrible diva about learning his lines, and a movie star who's a terrible diva about walking. [Gawker]

Why GM's Still Worth Something

General Motors is defaulting on an upcoming $1 billion debt payment. A bankruptcy is "probable," says the CFO. So why isn't the stock at zero already? [Gawker]

Alexander Ovechkin Can't Drive 55

Rachel Nichols had a nice "so now you know" profile about the NHL's goofy MVP on E:60 last night. What do you think happens when a toothless, 23-year-old adrenaline junkie gets handed $100 million? [Deadspin]

Hobbyist Building World's Fastest Car Out of a Fighter Jet

Your hobby sucks compared to Ed Shadle's; in his free time, he's converting an old fighter jet into a land vehicle capable of going 800MPH. [Gizmodo]

This New Detroit Lion Logo Should Fix Everything

The rumors are true. It seems that the new Lions logo that "leaked" awhile back is legit and a new typeface and squiggly lines will soon usher in a glorious new era of Detroit football. [Deadspin]

An Ugly Picture of a Beautiful OLED Rearview Mirror

Try to look beyond that filthy smartphone JPEG compression to get glimpse into the future of auto mirrors. [Gizmodo]

Extreme Wardriving Arrives From Russia, With Love

An unnamed Russian wardriving girl makes a go at getting this extreme activity accepted as a new event in the Summer X Games. Someone get her a Mountain Dew, stat. [English Russia via CrunchGear] [Gizmodo]

Buses in Oslo to Get Poop Power

Next time you hop on a bus in Oslo, it might not run on regular gas. Instead, it may be running on methane fermented from human waste. Awesome? [Gizmodo]

Parking Space That Doubles as a Playground Swing: A Deadly Space Saver

You know that space saving concepts have gone too far when someone proposes that a collapsible swing be integrated into a parking space. [Gizmodo]

Obama's Crazy-Ambitious Plan for High-Speed Rail Lines in America

Europeans and Japanese already enjoy high-speed rail service, but Americans are woefully dependent on cars and planes to get from city to city. Not for long, if Obama has anything to say about it. [Gizmodo]

Sarah Lacy Is the Interviewer Elon Musk Was Looking For

Uh oh! Silicon Valley journalist Sarah Lacy laughed when Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk called a New York Times writer a "douchebag." Now the Times is in a snit and she's calling the newspaper sexist! [Gawker]

9 Rocket Sled Tests

Following hot on the heels of the Mythbusters' epic rocket sled meets car obliteration, OObject has put together a list of 9 sleds that also involve fire, speed and making things go boom. [OObject] [Gizmodo]

Does This Look Like a Gun to You ?

It did to Australian cops who found this steering wheel lock while searching 18-year-old Chad Hasting's car after they pulled him over. They called in backup and arrested him for possessing a gun. [Gizmodo]

All Right, You Autobot Maggots! Drop And Give Me Twenty Transformations!

What would Autobot boot camp be like? Would there be hazing and weird chanting? What's the Transformer equivalent of latrine duty? This scene from Transformers Animated season one (now on DVD) explains everything. [io9]

If Sony Makes This PSP-Controller Car, I Will Buy It

A Sony patent application reveals a very neat implementation of the PSP. Imagine a camera-enabled car you can drive around...through an augmented reality race course. [Gizmodo]

Gallery: The Command Centers of Tomorrow's Cars

I was happy that my first car had a screechy tape deck in the dashboard. But at the NY Auto Show, tomorrow's cars have full-blown touchscreen computers that look more suited to commanding the Enterprise. [Gizmodo]

So That's Why Devastator's Head Lights Up Like A Green Jack-O-Lantern

We've seen the the Constructicon Devastator before, but never like this. Some new Transformers concept art explains why his face is glowing. Plus pictures of the Transformers' devil-bot Fallen. [io9]

Google Street View Car Commits Suicide By Bridge

Capping an unseasonably goofy week for Street View, one of their drivers managed to clothesline his car's protruding pole camera with a low bridge outside of Pittsburgh. He submitted the photos to his boss anyway. [Gizmodo]

UK Cameraman Turns The Tables On Google Street View Car During Argument

It looks like Google is continuing to make friends in the UK—only this time it's the driver of the Street View car that was outraged. [Gizmodo]

Money Can't Buy Elon Musk Love

Why has Justine Musk, the estranged wife of the CEO of Tesla Motors, spoken out about their divorce and his new fiancée? It might have something to do with money, and Elon Musk's lack thereof. [Gawker]

Souped-Up Toyota Runs Over Sweetly Earnest Man-Boy, Keeps On Driving

Everyone really likes cars. But especially when they're blowing up and/or full of guns and hot people. Also, people like both monsters and aliens, but not curly-haired soul-searchers who work at amusement parks. [Gawker]

World's Fastest Kettle: Steam Supercar to Break 170MPH Barrier

This is the World's Fastest Kettle. That's what Charles Burnett III calls his steam supercar, which will race at 170mph over the Mojave Desert this coming June. Yes, I can't believe it either. [Gizmodo]

Kim Kovets Kars

[Los Angeles, April 3. Image via INFDaily.]

[Jezebel]

Charlie Leduff Owns the Raccoon Meat Beat

Mustachioed man of the people Charlie Leduff is the type of reporter who wanders the backstreets of America, searching for someone who hunts raccoons for meat, so he may write about them. Found one! [Gawker]

F1 Winner Holds Up Post-Race Press Conference To Jump His Model Girlfriend

British Formula 1 driver Jenson Button was so excited to win the Australian Grand Prix this weekend, that he couldn't wait until after meeting with the media to start the celebration. [Deadspin]

Honda Links Your Dirty Thoughts Directly To ASIMO Robot

Honda has found a way to connect your brain directly to its ASIMO bot, by directing the patterns of electric currents and cerebral blood flow. What's next: hands-free driving? [io9]

At Least the Ultra-Rich Still Have Ferraris

"This is a tough time for the very wealthy," begins a story about how "ultra-luxury" auto brands are confident that their customers will survive. Meanwhile, the American dream is now "to be a renter!" [Gawker]

Tesla CEO Says GE's an Investor, but GE Says No

Yesterday, we noted an upcoming Car & Driver interview with Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk in which he claims GE Capital is investing in the electric-car maker. Today, GE told us nuh-uh. [Gawker]

Is Elon Musk Guaranteeing Tesla Buyers' Deposits? Yes and No

Tesla Motors, the cash-poor electric-car startup which just unveiled a new sedan prototype, may have gotten money from General Electric. But it's really hoping to trick car buyers into investing on the sly. [Gawker]