Aussies Get Porsche Panamera Police Patrol Car

After trying the Porsche Panamera out with a toddler for a couple weeks, I can absolutely say it's a terrific vehicle for taking a person, throwing them in the back in restraints, and then driving really, really fast. Which means it's not just a great toddler car, it'd make a great police car. The New South Wales…

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1986 Ford Falcon Utes And Vans Show Australia's Vehicular Superiority

The Australian car market is a truly fascinating place. While we love our massive, hulking pickup trucks, the Aussies are perfectly happy in their car-based utes from Ford and Holden. It's like an alternate reality where everyone said, "Why have an F-150 when you can have an El Camino?"

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Leave It To The Australians To Make Us Want A 1982 Toyota Corolla

If this vintage commercial is to be believed while Americans were using the 1982 Toyota Corolla to commute to work our friends down under were using the compact cars to hoon and party in the outback.

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Overturned Truck Dumps 400 Sheep Off Overpass

A truck ferrying 400 sheep overturned on an overpass in Laverton, Australia, sending nearly 400 terrified sheep plummeting to their doom onto the traffic below. No humans were hurt as the 100+ pound animals tumbled onto passing cars, but only about 10 of the sheep survived.

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Chevy SS Sedan Is The New Road-Going Rear Wheel Drive NASCAR Hotness

America has been without a GM rear wheel drive performance sedan since the General tomahawked the Pontiac G8 in 2009. If you've been waiting for another to come along, your prayers have been answered: GM will bring a Chevrolet version of the Australia-built Zeta platform to North America next year, reviving the…

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Aussie Ford Ad Murders A Toad In The Name Of The Environment

Ford's EcoBoost badge inevitably triggers thoughts of doing something to help the environment, but this Australian advertisement for the Ford Falcon EcoBoost shows the car murdering one of a pair of cane toads on a lonely stretch of highway.

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Watch This Teen's Amazing Pitch-Perfect Car Engine Impressions

[Insert name of country]'s Got Talent shows are always filled up with way too much boring singing. Why sing songs when you can do pitch-perfect impersonations of drag-racing Mazda rotaries like this guy auditioning for Australia's Got Talent last night.

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Watch A Paint-Huffing Teen Toy With Cops In A Stolen BMW

If you're going to huff paint, why sit around in the basement playing Grand Theft Auto? The real thing's more thrilling and you might actually die. That was, apparently, the train of thought for an Australian 17-year-old who got high on paint, stole a BMW X5, and eluded police in a high speed chase around Brisbane.

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Buy A Creepy Katy Perry And Rihanna-Muralized Hyundai For Just $2,500

Old and young people alike all say kids don't express themselves with cars anymore. This purple Hyundai Accent with murals of Rihanna on one side and Katy Perry on the other is here to prove them wrong. And for $2,500 it could be yours!

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Watch an amazing fiery burnout from down under

It's no secret they take their burnouts pretty seriously down under and the results are usually pretty amazing to watch. Luckily for us this burnout is no exception—it has all the smoke and supercharger whine you could hope for, plus the unexpected but welcome addition of fire.

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Unfortunate groom crashes Lamborghini on his way to get married

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.

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