We've been hearing a lot about how Katherine Bigelow's movie, Zero Dark Thirty, is being seen by some as an endorsement of torture. Which is, you know, generally frowned upon. What most people don't realize is that the late Plymouth Motor Company, part of Chrysler, once openly endorsed torture in their mid-1930s era …

Going blind is a terrible thing for anyone, but especially people who enjoy driving. Former New York governor David Paterson is legally blind, but managed to finagle his way into a 14-lap run at a go kart track in Syracuse, N.Y. last week.

This is a foam-covered road in coastal Queensland, Australia. What you'll notice first is a bus braving the foam to get its passenger in the rig… OMG WHERE DID THAT CAR FROM?

Levitating cars with lightning bolts, Porsches with CGI machine guns, drivers on fire — this is the most hilarious racing promo vid we have ever seen.

The immortal words of "I could do that in a van" don't just apply to the Nürburgring. Here's a Škoda/TAZ van showing that yes, it can powerslide.

GoPro cameras are fantastic. There's no denying that.

Say you're out for some fun in your E46 BMW M3 and someone takes off in it. You'd freak out right? You'd want to kick that guy's ass!

Please, please, please let this be a hoax, or some viral ad or anything. Tell me this woman is not washing her car's windows with gasoline.

Standing on an active runway is not the best idea in the world. Standing on an active runway when a stunt plane is buzzing about three feet off the ground is even dumber.

Lying in the path of a moving vehicle is a stupid thing. It's especially stupid if that moving thing is a fast three ton truck.

I don't go snowboarding because I don't like the cold. Or snow. Or running headfirst into trees. Or halfpipes.

Well, we should probably change that to "used to drive." A Floridian driver literally just crashed this Buick Rainier into what appears to be an empty strip mall in Fernandina Beach, Florida.

Automakers give out free cars to magazines and some websites for as long as a year. They call them long-term testers.

Remember the guy who swapped an old phone for a Porsche? Well, this is another shining example of marvellous business talent involving phones and Porsches: I give you the Panamera key shaped mobile straight from China!

Sometimes Google's Street View cars return some pretty astounding pictures. Like yesterday when a picture appeared on Reddit of a donkey that commenters thought Google ran over and left for dead.

Getting pulled over is one of the worst feelings in the world. It's also one of those times that you wish you were someone else.

Pranks on unsuspecting drive up window attendants have been around for years. But then YouTube came along.

I don't care what you think. Call me a dweeb. Call the guy who built this thing a nerd. Whatever, this Ferrari F1 car transformer costume rules.

Personalized license plates are a great way of letting complete strangers know personal information about yourself.

Parking must be really bad in Houston, because they're giving out tickets to cars parked on walls now. At least that's what happened at 3303 Kirby Ave in Houston, where the City posted a red tag on the building demanding "Remove car from front." Why don't they just put a boot on it if they're so angry?