Here's a fan-recorded video from the Last Chance Heat 2 at Ipswich World Final 2010 race, featuring several cars crashing into each other. The crashes don't make the video entertaining, though—the guy's insanely excited voiceover does (NSFW language).
Nicolas Cage, the worst actor of his generation (watch here), has a new movie—Drive Angry, in which he plays a car enthusiast who escapes Hell to save his granddaughter—coming! If you thought The Wicker Man looked bad, well...
Yesterday, we learned that a 34-year-old man slammed a car through a Bridgeville, Pennsylvania DMV office moments after passing his driving test, causing minor injuries to himself and three others. Now, we have raw video of the classically ironic event.
Holy moly is this amazing: check out The Cube, a new, state-of-the-art car park in Birmingham, UK, that takes any possible human error out of the equation to ensure that your vehicle gets placed—and retrieved—with ease. Video inside.
Here's something you don't see every day: amateur video, shot from the inside of a moving car, that shows a monkey just chillin' on the hood. But wait! Along comes another monkey—take a guess at what happens next.
At about 9:50 this morning, a female student at a Tewksbury, MA job training school drove her Pontiac Bonneville into the building, making her way 100 feet into the structure before stopping. Inside, a local newspaper's video report.
After 71 years, the Mercury auto brand is being shut down. Feign some wistful disappointment.
Great news! The ultimate penis compensation vehicle may soon be more affordable. You just need a horse first. Artist Jeremy Dean built a horse-drawn Hummer to show everyone what our miserable future could look like. [Boing Boing, via]
In 1969, Chevrolet became entangled in history's famous safety debacle with the Corvair, whose rear-suspension issues and potential to overturn made Chevy synonymous with danger. However, by the looks of this film they've had basic auto-mechanics covered from Day 1.
Does your car horn lack flavor? Come on down to Car Horns and More! That was the theme of this sketch from tonight's SNL, featuring Jenny Slate and Jlo as the proprietors of some wacky bells and whistles. Video inside.
Here's a sad update the story of Angel Hess, the hipster/hippie whose raggedy truck "Purple 53" once haunted Williamsburg: He's stuck in Colorado, where he says he's been scammed by a childhood friend who "hijacked" his truck.
General Motors is bankrupt. Whoops. It was probably going to happen no matter what, but lots of people hoped that bankruptcy would remain a threat that would encourage everyone to band together to save the company. Who is to blame for the death of the American auto industry?
Now that Jay Leno has entered the lame duck phase of his relationship with the Peacock network, it appears that he's decided to abuse his position as America's top-rated celebrity interviewer as fuel for his sexual reveries for many moons to come. While interviewing a crestfallen Scarlett Johansson on Friday night…
Black women these days: they're just not buying enough Toyota Camrys. The car company's ad agency rep explains the problem: "[Black women] think of it as suburban, not urban; as solid but boring. And for this woman, she doesn't see herself as boring." Ha, you go girl! Well, ladies, Toyota likes to think of all of…
Angel Hess, the partially homeless Williamsburg dude/ artist who lives in an old purple truck charitably called "Purple 53," otherwise known as "that raggedy purple truck in the polluted lot across from the Turkey's Nest," wants to come visit your family! "Does anyone have friends or family in Alabama or Louisiana?…
