Watch A Race Car Driver Get Fired From His Own Team Before The Season…

The LADA Sport Lukoil team was hoping for a good result at Autodromo Nazionale Monza last weekend. Instead, one of their drivers destroyed both cars before the race even began.

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These Lada Niva/Russian Space Program Ad Parodies Are So Great

As much as I wish a) these were real ads b) they actually did send a Lada Niva with a roof-mounted cargo box to the Mir and c) there actually were Nivas here in the US, none of these things are true. Still, that doesn't make these parody ads from the University of Television and Film in Munich (HFF München) any less…

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Dear Nissan, Datsun Is Not Dacia!

As you probably all heard by now, Nissan announced last March that it will reintroduce the long gone Datsun marque in emerging markets like Russia, India and Indonesia as a budget brand. With 43.4% of their shares at Renault for more than a decade now, one could only wonder where they got the idea from. The new Datsuns …

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You Can Now Make Something This Wonderfully Terrible Thanks To The…

When you own a car, you tend to make very careful choices with how you modify it. Chances are you'll need to sell it at some point in the future, and it needs to appeal to more people than just you.

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Show Us The Weirdest And Best Communist Sports Cars

For some reason, the commies weren't really into sports cars. Maybe driving for something other than to transport political prisoners around seemed like a waste of precious resources. No matter, this didn't stop the engineers of the nationalized factories from creating beautiful machines from the bits and pieces they…

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The Oldest Cars Still In Production

The announcement last month that Lada will finally stop building the 2107 (also called the Riva) was sad news. At least sad to those of us perverse enough to love the idea that the 1966 Fiat 124 was still in production somewhere. That Lada was part of an ever-shrinking club of true automotive survivors. Let's see who's …

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The Hit-And-Run Audi R8 Video That Became A Viral Sensation In Two Days

Moscow is known for its supercars, its street racing, and its street drifting. All that went wrong, however, when an Audi R8, drifting for the camera, smashed another car in what has now become — in just two days — one of the highest-watched car videos on YouTube.

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