Moscow Unlimited brings the wildest street legal vehicles on the planet together for a mile-long race. Clearly, when the Soviet Union fell it didn't take them long to make up for lost time. If only the music would catch up.
Lotus-Driving Father Nearly Kills Son In Street Race
An idiot allegedly racing his Lotus Elise against a Porsche around Salt Lake City crashed into an oncoming car last night. Making this worse: his son was in the passenger seat, and he's the one in critical condition.
Well-Deserved Idiot Street Racing Schadenfreude
Watching idiot street racers in illegal parking lot racing videos ending with a deliciously crunchy t-boning and a declaration of "I got that shit on videotape" always adds some pep to our Friday evening! NSFW-for-language.
Lodz, Poland To Street Racers: Here, Race On Main Street!
Poland's booming economy has doubled the number of cars on the road in a couple of decades, and we don't mean just Polski Fiats here. Hopped-up hot-rod hooligans were hooning it hot and heavy on public roads in Lodz, Poland's second-largest city, so the city fathers decided the only way to stop the chaos was to... buy…
Street-Racing Comcast Morons Leave 3-Year-Old Hospitalized
You know how you have to wait around for hours for a Comcast technician to show up? We've finally found why that is. Two Comcast employees were street-racing their vans around Huntsville, AL. The racing turned less fast-and-furious and more tragic as one van lost control and hit a vehicle that had three-year-old…
Garbage Truck Bagged For Street Racing
Underground Garbage truck street racing is apparently the latest threat to civil society in Canada, because cops in Goderich, Ontario have busted a driver for 112 KPH in a 60 KPH zone. The part that has us furrowing our brow is there seems to be no opponent in this race. Which would simply make it speeding, which would …
Manta Manta Revisited: The English-Dubbed Trailer
If you've been around Jalopnik for a while, you already know that Manta Manta
Polish Police Okay Limited Street Racing
Rejoice szybki i wściekły, you now have at least one sanctioned street racing venue. According to our favorite news source ever, Annanova, police in the Polish city of Lodz have defined sections of the city which will be open to no holds barred street racing. This is an attempt by authorities to concentrate street…
Maryland Street Racing Crash Leaves 8 Dead, One Crumpled Crown Vic
A white Ford Crown Victoria plowed into a group of street-racing fans on a highway about 20 miles south of Washington, D.C. on Saturday, killing eight people and scattering bodies in the early morning darkness. In addition to the fatalities, at least five other spectators were injured of the 50 or so people gathered…
CNN All Up In Grill of Street Racing
Yo CNN, we ain't frontin' but you gots to lay the smack down on your reportin' style. That was difficult, but necessary, since CNN has apparently taken to using "lingo" that all the youngsters are into these days. Their canned report on the dangers of street racing is topped with headers like "How they roll", "Law, schmaw"…
Southern California Cops Destroying Street Racers' Rides
File this under "stuff that boils our blood." Police in San Bernadino and Riverside counties have apparently been thinking of new ways to ensure kids stay alive, though bored senseless. According to the Los Angeles Times six cars were crushed to death after courts (apparently side-stepping the Fourth Amendment) gave…
Street Racing Act: No Nitrous for You!
Citing the potential dangers of post-accident bottle explosions, the powers that be in Ontario Province of Canada have essentially banned the use of power-adder nitrous oxide as part of the Street Racing Act. Nitrous oxide use will still be OK for use by recreational racers on private property. Ontario Safety League…
Hoons of Colorado: Super Supra Beats Up On Crazed Cobra
[Update: oops. That's a Cobra, not a GT500] Okay, boys, get that sound turned up. Way up. Why? So you can hear the age-old battle of forced induction. That's right, it's the whine of the supercharger vs. the wail of the turbocharger for hoon supremacy. You'll notice the supercharger gets its groove on first, which…
Pro Golfer's Street Racing Madness Leads To Death
Most of the time, it seems that street-racing-tragedy stories involve the likes of Fox Mustangs and bewinged Civics, with 19-year-old participants hopped up on Zima, etc. But not this time; what started out as a harmless 100+ MPH street race on a suburban lane in Orlando turned into one of those grim car-whacks-tree…
Street Racer Kills Tonga's Royalty in California
Next time you think about comitting street hoonage, remember this. All it takes is one foulup and you may inadvertently assassinate a soverign, possibly plunging an entire nation into darkness and chaos. We're not saying that's exactly what happened here, but police in Menlo Park, California are saying two members of…
Nippon Hoon School: Opposite Lock 101
It's less than a week until "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" hits theaters, and already some chicken littles are predicting a commercial face plant — via disinterest by all but the most hardcore 2F2F fans. (We're holding all commentary in that regard until the first RB26DETT-powered Mustang emerges on-screen.)…
No Parking Signs Thwart Tokyo's Roulette Racers
Tokyo police are cracking down on street racing by cracking down on racers' rest stops. It kind of makes sense: You can't keep racing all the time; after a while, even the most intrepid Hashiriya's head will turn to fish paste. And since police can't catch racers in the act, officials have slapped No Parking signs up…
