As we know, there are innumerable ways you can get killed behind the wheel. What about when a car's not moving?

In about twenty minutes I'm going to head out to go change the spark plugs wires and distributor on my Baja Bug. It will be the first thing that I will have ever fixed on a car, short a few broken bulbs.

There's a right way to pull an engine, and there's a wrong way. There's also a hilarious extra-wrong way to do it, as these eurotrash mechanics demonstrate with a beater Golf.

Our pals over at Car and Driver have their equivalent of Parking Lot Mechanic, called Saturday Mechanic, and this is a clip from one of their recent episodes starring former Jalopnik writer Ben Wojdyla almost being murdered by a car that doesn't have a J-gate.

You can thank 94.7 Highveld Stereo in Johannesburg for this, the funniest car complaint we've ever heard.

This week on Car Hacks I'd like to talk about an idea that I've had banging around in the empty vastness of my head for some time. I usually have this idea when one of my old cars leaves me stranded by the side of a busy highway.

We don't know why this man chained his VW Golf's engine to a tree and drove backwards, but the results are amusingly explosive.

Car repairs can drain your pocketbook fast, but you can do a wide range of repairs yourself, regardless of your technical skill. We're not just talking oil changes; provided you can hold a wrench, you can fix everything ranging from fuel filters to alternators. We'll detail the tools necessary for your DIY toolkit,…

A shattered lens is a sure recipe for headlight failure, but the owner of this Ford Focus has managed to fail even more in their attempt to remedy the problem.