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Today's the 40th anniversary of the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle built — the number needed to surpass the former record holder for most produced car — the Model T. It made the Beetle officially the world's best-selling car. As a way to commemorate this event, and because I have a big, obvious soft spot for old Beetles, I made a little video showing you how anyone can draw a Beetle using just two ovals. More »
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Some brilliant entrepreneur on eBay is offering a fiberglass body kit designed to turn your $1,600 mid-'90s Honda Civic coupe into the $1.6 million Bugatti Veyron for just $4,500. Buy it. Buy it now. You absolutely must. More »
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A thread on StanceWorks — the popular forum for lowered and hellaflush cars — began with a proud 2001 Honda Civic owner showing off his trunk-rattling sound system and slammed car. Then forum members quickly discovered how he lowered the car. As you can see, it's the kind of horrific DIY engineering that makes you want to scream, "You're doing it wrong!" More »
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Orphaned by the conspiracy-laden bankruptcy of British Leyland, the generally-terrible Austin Princess attracts a special kind of old car curmudgeon. That's why seeing this 1,500 word eBay rant about one such car shouldn't surprise anyone. More »
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Apple devotees who openly display their Cupertino affections usually don't get much sympathy. Slow urban traffic is no place for clumsy pushiness. Combine the two and you end up with this puzzling encounter in Russia. More »
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Danny White lives in Washington, DC, is a die-hard Redskins fan, and has both a Chevrolet Avalanche and a peculiar sense of humor. Thanks to a peculiar quirk in the District's Department of Motor Vehicles' computer system, those last two details have gotten him about $20,000 worth of unpaid — and unearned — parking tickets. More »
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The shot of this Hyundai Tiburon by Reddit user man_in_the_mirra meeting a sad, icy fate once again shows just how important it is to consider your choice in parking spots carefully. Especially when the temperature drops below freezing. More »
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Our favorite undergrad entrepreneur now has a commercial for her Walk of Shame shuttle service, although she calls it a "mock commercial" — whatever that means. More »
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School zones serve an obvious and important role in pedestrian safety because no one wants to hit a kid. Zone enforcement usually lasts a few hundred feet over a large chunk of time in the morning and afternoon. This school zone sign in Michigan tries to break up that solid time slot. The result has been hilariously disastrous. More »
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Yesterday, we proved our formidable bandwagon-jumping skills with a "What People Think Car Guys Do" chart-meme-thing. Since then we've been getting lots of folks clamoring for their own brand-specific versions. Well, we're all about making you happy, so we decided to make some more. More »
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So my friend Garnet Hertz created this little meme called "What People Think." It's the image macro things that have been all over your Facebook walls this week. Here's another one for you. Feel free to share it, just head over to our Jalopnik Facebook page to share it from there. More »
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Last week’s ridiculous Hummer accident in Hungary has, predictably, become the pictorial meme in these still-frozen parts. Apart from a well-executed and faithful tribute in Lego, this obligatory Star Wars AT-AT version may be our favorite. More »
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A Canadian guy named Joe has been digging out the basement of his house using nothing but radio-controlled scale model construction equipment... since 1997. Yes, you read that right — he's been digging out his basement for 15 years — with nothing but little R/C tractors, diggers and even a miniature rock crusher! Amazing. More »
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Some probably stoned and fairly intrepid outdoorsmen of the boreal North watched as a grizzly bear ambled into the back of their pickup truck. They looked death in the gruesome, fuzzy face and laughed. Warning: NSFW language More »
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Pascal Prokop has his own solution for Switzerland's exceptionally cold winter: He built a wood-burning stove into the passenger seat of his 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon. More »
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As car lovers there are few things worse to us than people who take it upon themselves to vandalize other people's cars. Yet judging from the relative frequency with which it occurs, there is still a decent sized section of the population who feels it acceptable and necessary to destroy automobiles. More »
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Few would accuse anyone who drives a super car like the Ferrari 458 of wanting to blend into the crowd. It is perhaps only appropriate then that covering a 458 with camouflage inside and out serves to make the already attention grabbing car stick out even more. More »
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Assuming the sound of screeching tires means you will soon have a car in your living room might sound paranoid, but one homeowner has a pretty good reason to be concerned about the nuances of traffic around his home in Haverhill, Ma. More »
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We're assuming this video was shot in Russia, because who else would be crazy and cunning enough to snag live sheep from a moving truck and drop them in an also moving sidecar? Just watch the video. More »
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Eastern Europe has been under a Siberian spell for a week or so, prompting the owner of a Hummer H2 to test the six inches of ice on Hungary’s Lake Balaton for some Siberian-style winter driving. What he apparently forgot was that a few days of 10-degree weather does not magically turn Lake Balaton into Lake Baikal. More »
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This may not be the most inappropriate homage to every good ol' boy's favorite jumping Dodge Charger we've seen lately, but this E90 four-door M3 in orange with blocky "01" numbers leaves us wondering just what everyone involved was thinking. More »
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Car enthusiasm is a global cultural phenomenon that never runs out of ways to show appreciation for favorite models. Sometimes those ideas start from one thought, become increasingly twisted, and end up as a very different kind of horse than anyone expected. More »
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No laws will change our capacity for stupidity behind the wheel. People will drive and text no matter what legislation is passed. But I think I know how we can use technology to mitigate the danger to fellow drivers. Enter the Center-Mount Distraction Light (CMDL). I think you'll love it. More »
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It seems with custom 4x4 show trucks and the people who build them "more" is always better. It doesn't particularly matter what it is—wheels, lift, length, silly graphics—the more there is, the better it is. If ever there were a vehicle to illustrate this way of thinking it's this 6x6 1993 Ford F350 currently listed on Ebay. More »
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Although there's no good time to wreck a rented Lamborghini Gallardo, we'd have to say crashing into a fence when you're already running late for your own wedding is easily one of the worst times for it to occur. More »
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Dutch gearhead website Autogespot recently posted a set of pics that takes the hot-blonde-in-a-hot-car cliche in an endearing new direction: a Bugatti Veyron spotted in West Hollywood with a golden retriever in the passenger's seat. More »
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You ever look at a race car driver's neck and wonder why they're usually so thick? Watch this video of a woman trying to keep her head in one place while being battered around the Abu Dhabi Yas Marina track in a two-seat Formula One car. Whiplash! More »
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Welcome to a new feature where I ask our own Jason Torchinsky to answer random questions — from readers, people I meet on the streets, and imaginary folks he thinks he's talking to — in handy flowchart form. We call it "Flow on the Floor." Today he's answering: What Should My Super Bowl Ad Be? — Ed. More »
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Despite some advances in design, the intransigence of China's copyright enforcers means the country's car companies still ripoff popular designs with glee. The new JAC 4R3 pickup is obviously a copy of the American Ford F-150, but it's not a bad one. More »
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Alfa Romeo's former test track in Balocco, Italy has hosted some of the most achingly beautiful cars in history. It is also where TRC OFF found this Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione dressed up like the Duke boys' Dodge Charger. Who would do this? More »
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What you see here isn't just some crappy homebrew Batmobile parked on a random sidewalk. This is either a real art deco "Keaton" Batmobile from one of the Tim Burton films or an excellent reproduction. More »
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Skijoring is a winter sport that involves being dragged around by a horse or a dog on skis. It's also something we have almost no interest in, that is at least until you replace the horse or dog with a 570 horsepower Bentley Continental GT. More »
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Just in case your special app that immediately reports breaking Fran Drescher news to you failed, I'm going to go ahead and let you know that, apparently, when Fran Drescher was younger, she was driving in a car with her father and was abducted by aliens who implanted a chip of some sort in her hand. Oh, and the exact same thing happened to her ex-husband. More »
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I was pleased when Fiat announced their return to America, but, now that the brand is settling in, I realized there's an issue. See, any new 500 driver with a flat or a dead battery is now going to have to endure the cries of "Fix It Again, Tony!" — the beloved-by-many-meatheads derogatory acronym for Fiat — from passing motorists, which many Americans have been desperately waiting two decades to once again yell. More »
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Recently, this Reddit thread had the picture you see above of a very official-looking Crown Vic bearing the "Soul Patrol" livery, and operating under the jurisdiction of the "King Christian Center." More »
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It's like the shot of the Vette towing the mini-Vette, but more quirky. More »
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Welcome to a new feature where I ask our own Jason Torchinsky to answer random questions — from readers, people I meet on the streets, and imaginary folks he thinks he's talking to — in handy flowchart form. We call it "Flow on the Floor." Today he's answering: Should I bother knocking? — Ed. More »
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The Cincinnati Zoo has a traveling version of its Cat Ambassador Program where zoo trainers bring a cheetah and several "smaller" cats to local schools. And that means road trips. But not in a cage. Nope. When these cheetahs go out on the town, they ride shotgun. More »
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Driving in Chechnya is a serious undertaking. You have to make sure that other cars and SUVs know where you are, otherwise they'll ram you off the road. That's why this driver uses the best car horn ever, an AK-47. More »
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Look at that picture up there. Let's break down what's going on there: the scene is a blistery, snowy day in brutal winter, somewhere Spokane, Washington. More »
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