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Polish Hoons Roll Volvo V40 Station Wagon, Celebrating Kubica?
We're not sure if these Polish hoons were actually intending to roll their Volvo V40 wagon when they hooked up the video cameras, but that was the result. An unsuccessful attack at a turn leads to the driver doing his best Robert Kubica impression (wherein Kubica crashes at, instead of wins, the Canadian Grand Prix). It doesn't look as if anyone is injured — it's a Volvo after all — but we're guessing someone is going to be switched from driver to camera operator on the next trip. (Thanks to Marcin) [Tapespace]
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Jumping A Saturn At Dave's Farm
Another day, another beater car hooned at Dave's Farm. Sure it's not as impressive as the Honda 666, or the Buick Halfmaster, but who doesn't love seeing a car catching air? It may be a lowly '90s Saturn, but the flat black and flames make up for it.[Dave's Farm]
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Trust the Legends Racer
Legends racers are some seriously odd, but awesome cars. Compact, agile, and way, way, way over engined, they have an air of quirky danger which makes them very exciting. We're not real clear on the conditions of this stunt, nor are we sure why tweedle dee and tweedle dum agreed to this (or why tweedle dum wore white pants), but they have some amazing trust in the driver of this legends car. This is one of the first times we've thought the people outside the car were bigger hoons than the guy at the wheel.
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[h/t to Bo at sportbilen.se!]
Swedish Hoons Hold Crazy Illegal Burnout Contest
If you thought the Swedish limo drifting was awesome, you're really gonna like this. It's an annual illegal burnout competition held in Stockholm, and the contestants don't hold anything back. Ripping tires to shreds? That's nothing. Pour down some gasoline and bring on the flames![h/t to Bo at sportbilen.se!]
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Canadian Cabinet Members Forced To Give Back Vehicles, Thanks To One Teenage Hoon
The cabinet ministers in Nova Scotia will no longer be allowed to cruise around in government-paid vehicles after one teenage son of a cabinet minister crashed a 2008 Ford Escape hybrid likely doing something very un-green-like. It turned into a bit of a messy he-said she-said as the cabinet member, Judy Streatch, said she was given verbal permission to allow her son to drive the vehicle, but not written permission, which was previously required by the cabinet. More »
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Icelandic Hoons Protest Falling Krona, Rising Gas Prices
Iceland's the one country with a currency rate falling further than the dollar and according to the front-pager today in the Wall Street
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Guns and Ramping, Can Life Get Better?
We really like these guys, they know how to start off a video - couple of reports from a camouflaged pump action shot gun and you've got our attention. They seem to have stumbled into a junkyard with a copious supply of perfectly drivable, and yet totally disposable cars. Take that set up, add the sketchiest looking ramp we've seen in a while, a little ACDC, and you've got the makin's for a good ole time. Dirty deeds indeed.
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Air-Powered Jumping Cutlass
Not all air gained by cars is done so by forward motion. Check out this stripped down '86 Cutlass which someone has seen fit to outfit with a serious air cylinder system and dubbed the Cyclone. Don't know how many times it will be blowing through anywhere though cause the leaper looks like it gets pretty trashed in this clip of aerial acrobatics. Rocking a 60 gallon tank at 390 PSI, this thing it packing some serious stored energy. Now all we need is somebody to drive this off a ramp and hit the switch at just the right moment.
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Look At The Bugs In My Beer
Unlike the fail-hoons earlier, this clip shows aspiring degenerates everywhere how things are done. Not only does this gentleman confidently forego all safety equipment unlike our recommendations, he also does without a shirt and is Canadian. With a plan that is well laid out and a sarcastic cameraman documenting things, the joy of thoroughly stuffing a car is recorded. We can't believe that thing drove away.
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Leap Day Celebration: A Special Day For Hoons
Happy Leap Day everybody! You didn't think we could let this novelty of calendar and astronomical year synchronization pas without commemoration did you? Considering how convenient the name is to bringing you all manner of things that jump, we'll be following through with variations on the theme. Follow the tag for the rest of the day, and we'll finish things off with a special vote for Hoon of the Day. First up is a quick lesson on what not to do when leaping. If you're going to do it, do it big. This eight foot bunny hop is none too impressive. While these kids are wearing seatbelts, they don't anticipate the efficacy of the belts and thus look like amateurs hobbling around holding their ouchies afterwards. The final straw is multiple slow motion repeats of the same jump. While it is funny to watch synchronized pain, it's not a good way to get into our highlight reels.
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Carnivals in India are a lot like carnivals in the United States. You've got your kids throwing up on rides, your delicious and fatty snack food and your WELL OF DEATH! Though the death count in this particular footage is low, you can just make out the discarded carcasses of those brave hatchbacking hoons that weren't so lucky in the center of the well. We're going to keep running Indian car vids until it stops being funny, which is probably never. Don't try this in your home well, kids! (h/t Eric)
Hoon of the Day: Who Will Survive The Indian Well of Death?
Carnivals in India are a lot like carnivals in the United States. You've got your kids throwing up on rides, your delicious and fatty snack food and your WELL OF DEATH! Though the death count in this particular footage is low, you can just make out the discarded carcasses of those brave hatchbacking hoons that weren't so lucky in the center of the well. We're going to keep running Indian car vids until it stops being funny, which is probably never. Don't try this in your home well, kids! (h/t Eric)
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Falcon Commodore radio car ended up doing dirt-slinging donuts for a crowd of onlookers. But it's no mystery to us. Though the cops can't be sure it's a police officer behind the wheel of the cruiser, we imagine it's a highway patrolman that's tired of the hoons having all the fun.
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Hoon of the Day: Aussie Cop Car Hooned
It's a mystery to the Australian police how this
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Opposition Party Against Aussie YouTube Law
As we told you earlier, the New South Wales government is planning on crushing the autos of repeat hoonage-offenders and posting the video on the Internet for said hoons to watch at home. The New South Wales opposition party is against the action, with one official saying "their only answer is to crush cars. That's after the event. That is, after people have actually put their lives and the lives of other motorists and pedestrians at risk." While that may be true, we've been promised Falcon XR8's crashing into SS Utes and we'd be a little displeased if there's not going to be video of that. [AuBC]
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Aussie Hoons' Rides to be Crushed Under New "YouTube Law"
The New South Wales Government is fed up with illegal street racing and has decided to implement the "YouTube Law," wherein confiscated cars will be crushed in "crash test experiments" and then shown on YouTube for hoons to watch. Prompted by the deaths of two citizens in August in an alleged street racing accident, the police have confiscated nearly 300 cars for their little experiments. More »
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This is the top reason for why you don't celebrate before you cross the finish line. Also, don't try to push your car across the finish line after a crash. You'll just look silly doing it.
Never Count Your Chickens Before They Cross The Finish Line
This is the top reason for why you don't celebrate before you cross the finish line. Also, don't try to push your car across the finish line after a crash. You'll just look silly doing it.
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More Smash: Can You Really Have Too Many Pumpkins Pics?
By now you've seen sexy Murilee's mondo-gallery of extra Pumpkin Smash pinups. Well, here's mine. The difference? Murilee has a $20 camera that fits in his pocket while I have a huge rig costing over a grand. And his photos look better. That's an art school education for you. Real quick: all pit shots are pre-race. Yes, I said pre-race. Enjoy (by jumping). More »
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