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We don't know if competitive moose wrangling is a thing, but if it were, we figure that offroad tractor racing would be its motorsports equivalent. 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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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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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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Losing control on a slippery road and banging into the guardrail is never a good thing but in this case it's a whole lot better than the alternative—getting hit by a speeding truck. More »
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If you've never heard of a Russian Kirovec K-701 commercial truck don't worry—we hadn't either until we came across this amazing video this past week on Bangshift.com. We're not exactly sure how this 30,000 pound truck ended up in the middle of a river but we've certainly seen crazier things happen in Russia. More »
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Losing a tire in while driving an already rollover prone SUV at highway speeds has to be close to the top of the list of anyone's nightmare driving scenarios. More »
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Russian blogger and photographer Lana Sator has taken urban exploring to its rather frightening apogee when she sneaked inside the NPO Energomash factory, which makes liquid-propellant rocket engines near the Khimki Forest outside Moscow, and made her way to the top and the bottom of the abandoned-looking facility. More »
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What was seemingly an average night stuck in traffic took a turn for the surreal when a hatchback randomly flew onto Leninsky Prospekt. Fortunately the initial landing zone was clear, but several other cars did end up badly bashed. More »
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There was a time when windshield wipers were just safety devices used to keep your windshield clear of weather and debris. That time is over. As this Russian genius demonstrates, once you are stuck in the mud windshield wipers can be used for a completely different and arguably more important task—holding your booze. More »
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When you drive over Russia's ice-caked roads in winter with a camera mounted on your dash it's only a matter of time before you capture a crazy near-accident. Still, who could expect you'd snag something like this amazing Michael Bay-worthy near-miss that happened just last week. More »
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This VAZ 2113 came out of the factory in Togliattigrad, Russia with something between 53 and 72 horsepower, but with some proletariat tuning even a 500-odd horsepower Gallardo can't stand in its way. More »
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Working late night sucks; working late night outdoors in the cold is worse. Sometimes you just have to say screw this and take a break from clearing an icy parking lot and live out your Gymkhana fantasies with your tractor. More »
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This thing? I found it inside an abandoned square-mile Soviet-era military factory in Siberia. It would have worn a gas mask to help illustrate to workers proper safety protocols upon nuclear war with America. Now, it's just another artifact of the USSR's once mighty military machine. More »
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The automotive destruction you are looking at is the result of the collision between what used to be a car and a tractor in the the Orenburg region of Russia. More »
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The passing of Thanksgiving is a sure sign to most drivers in the colder parts of the country soon we will be driving in the snow (if you aren't already). More »
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Winter driving season is approaching, and with it comes anxieties about snowy or icy roads. Leave it to Russian loggers to show how to get through conditions that most drivers would never see in their worst dreams. More »
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Sure it's not the first time we've seen Russians employ some unique tricks to fool a traffic jam, but it is certainly the most insane. More »
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Russians have a well-earned reputation for keeping things running long after they'd be abandoned by us disposable-culture Westerners. But this video of a dutiful truck driver and his nearly demolished ride takes that idea to its limit. More »
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Whenever you think you've seen all of the strange automotive creations Russia could conceivably have to offer something like this tire covered 5 series BMW with wings appears to remind you there is no limit to Russian weirdness. More »
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We don't know the exact circumstance that lead to a Range Rover hitting a wall at speeds of over 200 km/h (124.3 MPH) in St. Petersburg, Russia, but thanks to these pictures we know what the aftermath looks like. More »
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Breakups are bad news, as we all know. Who here hasn't spent a week binging on raw cookie dough and episodes of The Good Wife after getting dumped? Or gotten behind the wheel of his cab, naked and drunk, and crashed into 17 cars? More »
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It's called Auto-USSR and while it looks like a field full of rotting old Russian cars, according to EnglishRussia, where we came across these pictures, it's actually an outdoor car museum. More »
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It's normal to see a kid obliviously cross against the light in a city. It's also normal for someone to honk. What's not normal? The kid shoulder-checking the car. More »
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Imagine going into the Russian woods to pick mushrooms and stumbling upon rows of abandoned military equipment. According to EnglishRussia that is exactly what happened to one Russian photographer. These amazing pictures are the result. More »
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No matter what part of the world you are in crashes resulting from driver error and self induced fire are two of the leading causes of supercar destruction. It appears to be a combination of both that ended the life of this Lamborghini Murcielago LP640. More »
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It's really too bad The White Stripes broke up before this Moscow motorcycle enthusiast had his brainstorm of a three-man band cycle, because Jack and Meg would have looked kinda bitchin' playing "Hotel Yorba" at freeway speeds. More »
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Although most modern junkyards automotive recycling centers are full of fairly boring and generic cars, when they are located in another country like this facility in Russia the cars are a lot less commonplace and a lot more interesting—at least to us. More »
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With traffic control in Moscow left in the occasionally sober hands of its citizenry, a group of young protestors has taken up the task of teaching manners to motorists — even if it means getting thrown on an SUV's hood. More »
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In Soviet-era Russia, families needing transportation lined up at the car office, filled out their paperwork and waited up to six years for their wheels to arrive. Many chose to instead spend those years building their own cars, from iron-clad sports cars to pods with a frying pan for a steering wheel. Here's some of the best... and worst of what Soviet-era Russia garage-builders wrought. More »
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It seems we were just a few days premature with our question about the coolest car doors, thanks to Russian upstart Yo-Autos's Yo-Concept, whose doors Yo-slide out the back hatch of this plug-in hybrid. Yes, like caviar, Russian crazy has its own very special flavor. More »
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If you've ever wondered what a junkyard full of vintage Russian iron looks like, wonder no more. Complete with a "not sure if it's intended to be comical" music choice, this video takes a look at some of the intriguing automotive oddities you might expect from a old car junkyard in Russia. More »
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It's a story familiar to most car lovers. You badly want a cutting edge exotic car but don't have the pile of cash required to afford one. One Russian man faced with a similar problem while lusting after a Mercedes SLR Mclaren decided to take matters into their own hands, literally. More »
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Life in the Second World means learning how to deal with bizarre taxes. One of the ways to get around the extortionate vehicle import duties common in many post-Soviet countries is to have your car chopped in half. An Audi sliced clean down the middle is suddenly not an Audi but two heaps of parts. More »
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Vladimir Putin may occasionally have trouble getting his Lada motor running, but that didn't prevent an army of pro-Putin activists from supporting the Russian Prime Minister with a patriotic bikini car wash. "Putin's Army is here to stay... Putin's Army washes you away..." More »
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It might not look like it, but there are actually three cars (we aren't counting the vehicle the picture was taken from) in this picture. Behold the optical illusion of the disappearing Russian mud car. More »
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What has three wheels, looks like a duck and shoots flames out of its head? The bizarre Russian art car you see here and absolutely nothing else in the entire world. More »
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was behind the wheel of a Mercedes M-Class Saturday when he apparently forgot to put the vehicle in park before stepping out to meet a crowd. Bodyguards stopped the SUV before any injuries beyond Medvedev's ego. Hat tip to Merc9000! More »
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Last week we showed you a Corvette Z06 racing a Koenigsegg CCXR at the mile long Moscow Unlimited, with surprising results. We would hardly call this footage from the same event a race (we aren't sure what happened to the BMW) but the results are certainly still surprising. Sure it's a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 and it's no slouch from the factory, but any combination of SUV and low 11 second 1/4 mile remains pretty impressive in our book. More »
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Give us enough time and we can figure out a way for Russian SUVs to make a Car Porn appearance. This amazing picture of the Northern Lights was captured during a Russian SUV expedition from Yakutia to the Taymyr Peninsula. More »
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