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A bus driver hit a news van in the middle of a press conference in Cincinnati last Friday. I guess no one was going to buy the headline "Reckless Press Conference Comes Out Of Nowhere And Crashes Into A Bus." More »
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In 1955 Volkswagen Transporters were nothing more than commercial vehicles, albeit strange and relatively rare commercial vehicles—at least in the US. Volkswagen hadn't yet captured American hearts with their clever advertising and few people even knew what they were. Even so, a few Volkswagens did make it over to this country that year, like this Panel Bus currently listed on Ebay. More »
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After the story about a Chinese semi driver working without a cab, a Jalopnik commenter sent in this shot showing how bus chassis are transported to body fabricators in Indonesia. Think of it as the ultimate convertible. More »
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Josh Clason's most recent Depth of Speed episode profiles Craig Johnson and his well restored vintage Volkswagens. It seems especially appropriate to examine vintage Volkswagen culture today, exactly 8 years after the last classic Beetle rolled off the assembly line. More »
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A bus hitting another bus is one thing, but a bus hitting a small vehicle like the mysterious green one seen here would mean almost certain injury for the driver. We don't know what it is (it looks identical to the vehicle sitting front left though), where it came from, or how it managed to avoid disaster when these two buses collided in an unknown location. Let the head-scratching begin. More »
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You read it right, a few VW buyers got caught up in the "Barrett-Jackson experience" while they were bidding on this immaculate 23 window Bus at the company's annual Orange County auction last night. When the smoke cleared a high bid of $198,000 had purchased the 1963 Volkswagen you see here ($217,800 after buyer's fees). More »
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Have you always wanted a tank that looked like a Volkswagen bus? We didn't either, that is of course until we saw pictures of this one. Who would have thought the combination of a 1945 Studebaker Weasel Tank and a bay window Volkswagen bus would work so well together? Currently for sale at a car dealer with California, we are left with a lot of questions about the creation of the Bus/Tank and no answers. More »
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Barn door, rat rod, VW, type II, kombi, ambulance. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Volkswagen Bus may be a lot of things, and it's up to you to decide if deal is one of them. More »
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America's top leprechaun Charlie Sheen sent a mechanic to retrieve the bus he used as a hang-out at Warner Bros. before getting fired from "Two and a Half Men." That's all he needs, this bus...and this ashtray... Thanks MarkB! More »
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Slammed within an inch of the ground and covered in fake patina, you might not like this 1968 Porsche, but chances are you will have an opinion about it. Selling later today on Ebay, this 911T "Outlaw" could be yours. More »
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Did the driver of the truck towing this Polish Howitzer hit the brakes too hard, or did the driver of this Polish bus hit the brakes too softly? Either way, there's a joke in here somewhere. More »
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In 1552, a 200,000-strong Ottoman army was repelled by 2,100 Hungarian defenders at the Siege of Eger. The Ottomans left—but not before leaving behind a concrete stargate, converted in modern times to the town's bus terminal. More »
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A Washington woman took her 1964 Volkswagen Bus home from California last week 36 years after it was stolen in Spokane, WA, and one year after she had unsuccessfully tried to buy it back. More »
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A Champaign-Urbana bus driver quit today after this video of him carelessly plowing through a snow man in the road was posted to the web. It's unclear if the driver's bad at his job or just really hated Jack Frost. More »
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Go slow, steer into skids, pump your brakes — just a few of the snow driving tips those of us in winter states know too well. Seattle drivers got a pop quiz on them from Mother Nature Monday. They failed. More »
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When is your house not a house? When it's a Volkswagen Bus. ("Ja," said Tom, "but can you drive your house to get ein plate of schnitzel? I don't think so.") [via fuckyeahcarburetors] More »
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A 19-year-old bus freak acquired a Washington, D.C. Metro driver's uniform and got himself assigned a bus route Sunday. He was doing great, driving the route as assigned, until he crashed into a tree. He was then arrested. [WaPo] More »
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Back around 1990, when I was a broke-ass slacker and figured out how to make beer for cheap, I got into making custom photocopier-and-glue-stick custom beer labels. You've seen Powerglide Road Soda, and now I've unearthed another old label. More »
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This bus owned by a German tour company features a six-foot-long bed for each of its passengers. The company claims to operate some 3400 "Betten auf Rädern," or "beds on wheels." Want to see Africa lying down? More »
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This amphibious bus is part of a proposed plan to improve public transport in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It's currently undergoing "sea" trials on the River Clyde. It has encountered problems, but it has not sunk. Yet. More »
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Created to promote the Copenhagen Zoo, this full bus wrap instead makes us think we're gonna need a bigger bus. Still, even riding a snake-crushed bus seems to beat flying these days. [AdsOfTheWorld] More »
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The Bluegrass State is a strange place, and Louisville, its largest city, is home to some weird and wonderful stuff. If you ever find yourself in the 'Ville and have to ride the bus, use a bike rack. Fool. More »
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Customs inspectors doing a routine inspection on a container on its way to Europe discovered a VW Bus which had been stolen 35 years ago inside. The recently restored Bus will be going to the insurance company, not the owner. More »
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When we showed up at the race track for the Yeehaw It's Texas 24 Hours Of LeMons last weekend, the LeMons Supreme Court spotted an Orion II with TARC markings in the paddock. We knew right away: Pace Bus! More »
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An out-of-control bus barreled into parked cars on a Brooklyn street, setting two ablaze, after allegedly swerving to avoid hitting a single erratic vehicle. The trouble is, this video tells a different story. More »
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When we drove from Manhattan to Detroit's Woodward Dream Cruise, it got us thinking about the Holy Grail of American road trips: all the way across the country. It has to be done, but behind the wheel of what? More »
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The Datsun ads were fun, as were the Toyota ads, but it was Volkswagen that first made an art form out of the automotive television advertisement. More »
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One is an Italian supercar. The other is a Hungarian bus. Both are from 1971 — and both use the same rear light cluster. More »
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We've wondered how safe freeway guard rails really were and how they test them to ensure our safety when people fall asleep at the wheel. This is that test gone horribly wrong. Runaway bus ahead. More »
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Getting smashed into by a bus worry you? It does us, which is why we're pissed about this clip of a bus driver texting on his phone then rear-ending multiple cars on the freeway. More »
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It's a bus. It's a boat. No! The Amphicoach is both! According to the Maltese company behind this ambitious tourist vehicle, it's the only fully amphibious passenger vehicle meeting "relevant" EU standards. Whatever those are. More »
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What do you do when you're driving through industrial East Oakland and nearly get sideswiped by a bus with one front wheel about to fall off and the open engine cover whacking parked cars? More »
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We're not so sure this is legal, but the cops were so busy hassling people doing burnouts that they probably didn't even notice the giant flames spewing into the sky from this party bus. By the sounds of it, we'd guess the fire-spitting mechanism was the sort of rig you'd find on a hot-air balloon, but maybe it was just the bartender doing his fire-breathing routine. More »
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This amazing footage comes straight from Mykanów, Poland, where last Friday a bus carrying 37 members of a choir was picked up and tossed around by a passing tornado. Thankfully, nobody was seriously injured in the incident, but this was the latest close call in a series of storms which have killed three while battering Poland over the last two weeks. No word on the condition of the band's requisite angry little Baba, cursing the storms and the incompetence of the driver with all her might. [Telegraph] More »
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A city bus explosion at a Bangkok natural gas filling station last week appears to highlight the dangers of responding to higher gas prices with slapdash propulsion conversions. According to records, the formerly diesel-powered bus was converted using a shipment of used parts from China and had not registered with the government for the conversion, thus avoiding an inspection. More »
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UK-based JustKampers.com teamed up with habitual car midgetizer Andy Saunders to build the worlds shortest VW Bus at Bug Jam '08, a celebration of all things people's car. The build and event took place last week, with a live audience watching the transformation from a standard issue T25 bus to a chopped, sectioned, and lowered bus measuring in at a scant three feet tall. So short, in fact, that a sunroof had to be cut out for the driver's head to poke through while driving. More construction shots and the completed vehicle gallery below. More »
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This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than Island That Rust Forgot. Today we're going to upstate New York, where OtsegoNY shot this amazing three-fer-one combo in Cooperstown. We've got a vintage Flxible transit bus, a Volvo 544 painted to match, and a Sears Allstate motorcycle, all in one glorious drivin' unit! Make the jump to read OtsegoNY's description. More »
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San Francisco's public transit system is getting a bit of an upgrade as the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (MUNI) has teamed up with technology company, CISCO, for The Connected Bus—a public transportation bus that is a little more desirable than the traditional buses used in public transit systems. The bus is a 95-percent emissions-free hybrid, if that wasn't obvious from the green and worldly motifs slapped on the side, but the other big seller is the included Wi-Fi and digital screens for each passenger. San Francisco is planning on implementing 800 of these buses into its transit system in the near future. More »
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Taking a page out of Otto's playbook, a school bus driver in Cleveland abandoned his vehicle to fill her up with diesel and hit the head. And why aren't you supposed to leave a school bus when it's full of kids? Because of what happened next. While the driver was doing his business the bus rolled out of the gas station and down a hill. According to the manager of the gas station, who chased down the bus on foot, kids started bailing out of the rig before it hit anything. One of the 27 kids on board was smart enough to steer the bus into a bridge embankment before it rolled into oncoming traffic or worse. No one was seriously injured, though 15 kids were taken to the hospital. How did this happen? More »
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