I’ve slept in my old Beetle before. It wasn’t great, but it worked, in the sense that I ended up unconscious for at least a little while. You’d think that, rationally, the idea of paying someone to let me sleep in another old Beetle wouldn’t be remotely appealing, right? That’d be crazy. Except now that I know about …
Have you ever wanted to own your own Bentley Mulsanne and/or a piece of South Carolina Interstate 26? This auction is for you.
Ever since Warren Robinett hid his name in the Atari 2600 game Adventure, there’s been a rich and wonderful tradition of developers hiding little fun secret things in computer software. This one, found on Russian-made GAZelle Next vans and trucks, is especially good: you can play Tetris on the little dot-matrix screen…
Alcohol is a hell-of-a drug, and it’s just about the only explanation I can come up with for why the person in this video was able to stumble so catastrophically straight into a street-parked 2001 Porsche Boxster S. Just wait until you see the dent.
Since I’m stuck helping out on a lovely Saturday, I figured I may as well have a little bit of goofy fun, so I’m starting this new series: Imaginary cars, from imaginary countries. I’m just going to make up a car and a country, and then quickly sketch whatever stupid thing I’m thinking of. Sounds fun? Too bad, I did…
If, for whatever reason, the modern world is grinding you down and you find yourself pining for some idealized time in the past, let me give you something to hold onto to make you feel better: in at least the arena of electric cars, the past was a shithole. The modern world is doing wonderfully with electric cars, and…
A gas station clerk in Bulgaria tried to stop a customer from smoking a cigarette while refueling his car. After a few brief words, security footage shows the clerk opted for the overkill method of resolving the issue.
Have you ever had the problem of getting shot at when you drive to your job in middle management at a suburban credit union? It’s a problem a lot of people have. Luckily, several companies out there make armored cars for the people who need to shake off varying calibers of lead flying towards them while driving—even…
We’ve all been there: you see a full-grown bear that appears to be injured, and you want to do the right thing, because having a bear owe you a solid is a better long-term plan than having an IRA. So you’re thinking should you wrestle that bear into your car and drive them to a busy parking lot? I’m afraid the answer…
I know Ford has no plans to introduce a genuinely compact pickup truck to the U.S. market (they need big ones to haul away all that F-150 money), and I expect even the new Ranger won’t be that small, so I think it’s important to see the lengths people will go to have a truly compact pickup. Go on, look at it.
They tried to warn him, and he didn’t pay attention. Somehow I have to imagine it’s not hard for a truck driver to realize his massive truck bed is raised, and that it might cause problems while motoring down the highway. Here’s what happens when the truck driver, uh, doesn’t realize his mistake.
It’s always tricky to really get a good sense of a car’s value from an online auction, but sometimes there’s some hints that can really help. In the case of this 1997 BMW 318TI up for sale over at Copart, there’s a pretty good clue about the car’s value: it’s covered in money.
We all see things while driving that cause genuine bafflement, sometimes. It may be a person driving while trailing a forgotten gas pump hose, or perhaps a person driving while playing a game of dashboard Jenga, or even someone driving one of those Nissan Murano convertible things. This one, though, spotted by a guy…
When it comes to seeing dead things in our daily lives, the streets are likely the most common place we encounter carcasses. Dead squirrels, birds, possums, armadillos, cats, dogs—the roads we travel are full of dead things. Dead people, thankfully, are a rarity, which is why everyone’s so freaked out by the corpse…
In California, the highways have special lanes for High Occupancy Vehicles (HOV). The definition of ‘high occupancy’ to ride in those lanes is two, the smallest possible plural number. A Miata could be an HOV. The Californian idea of what is an HOV is soundly mocked by the existence of this car, a Honda Civic that,…
It’s odd, but I can think of at least two things you can bolt onto a car engine that, to non-gearheads, sure seem drug-related. Think nitrous systems, or, as in this case, methanol-injection systems, which gets abbreviated to “meth.” Maybe you see where this is headed.
This is just one of those subtle things that you can only learn from a lifetime of committing crimes, but as a good rule of thumb for if you want to get away with doing something illegal, you should probably avoid driving filthy, door-poor Lincolns with an axe wedged in the roof. Those tend to attract cops, as a very…
It’s hot in Japan. How hot is it? It is dash-duck meltingly hot.
The 24 Hours of LeMons shitbox racing series is, arguably, one of the three pillars of modern society, along with the Kiwanis Club and our nation’s easy and ready access to taquitos. One of the icons of LeMons is a mysterious figure named Speedycop who always manages to build some genuinely insane cars. The Speedycop…
The engine in your car is much like you: quite fussy about what fluids go where. Just like you’d freak out if, say, your tear ducts became full of urine or blood, you average engine doesn’t want, say, washer fluid where oil should go. Which just happens to be what happened to this poor, now-disgusting Mini.
