Fun Stuff
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We’ve known for some time that HISTORY was planning to air a second season of Top Gear USA, after the show’s first season, which comprised some 10 episodes, managed to pull in a total of 60 million viewers. Now, thanks to the show’s Facebook page, we know that the first episode of the brand new season will air on July 24. While the show never reached the popularity of the original the British version, which itself just reached season 17 when the latest episode aired in the UK last Sunday, it’s got its own following and the potential to be great. In case you missed the...
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The Car Show Releases First Batch Of Promos: Video
The Car Show debuts on Speed TV July 13. This batch of promo videos gives you an idea of what to expect.
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Top Gear Season 17 Airs In UK: Video
The boys are back for another season of hilarity and mishaps involving cars in a variety of location, with episode one of season 17 of the original--and still the best--Top Gear airing last night in the UK. This is season 17 of the ever popular show and as this gallery reveals, we can expect some...
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850-HP Twin-Engine 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado Asks, 'Why Not?'
Shoe-horning a pair of 425-cubic-inch V-8s into one of the least attractive cars of an era might sound like the start to an epic failure, but the end result for this 1966 Toronado seems to be great success.
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Cake Boss Crew Shows Off 2,000 Pound Bumblebee Camaro Cake: Video
Transformers 3 - Dark of the Moon doesn’t open in theaters for another week but in the lead up to that the amazing day we have a very different preview of the film to what you're probably used to. A few months ago the crew from TLC’s Cake Boss cable program managed to build a 2,000...
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The Car Show With Carolla, Neil, Farah Debuts July 13
Can Carolla, Neil, and Farah do what Foust, Wood, and Ferrara couldn't? We only have a few weeks left until we find out.
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Reducing fuel consumption and emissions is only one aspect of automotive sustainability - at the end of a car's life comes the time for its components to be re-used and recycled. We'd hope for Chevrolet's sake that its 2011 Volt models aren't already reaching the end of their life-cycles but it's nice to know that when they do, a little innovation can make old components go a long way. When General Motors' Real Estate and Facilities team moved into a new building and wanted to spruce up the atrium, they had the perfect planter ready and waiting - the battery cover from the 2011 Chevrolet...
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Utah Highway Patrol Fires Off 900-HP Mega-Burnout: Video
Utah Highway Patrol officer burns rubber for charity in a 900-horsepower Charger police cruiser. Yep, it's pretty awesome.
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Mercedes Driver Sets 7,572-Foot Guinness World Record Drift: Video
Keeping a controlled slide going around a skidpad is harder than it sounds, but Mauro Calo was up to the task this weekend in England, setting a new world record for distance.
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Tanner Foust Narrowly Avoids Hot Wheels Jump Disaster: Video
Racer Tanner Foust avoids a disastrous result while practicing a jump most of only dreamed of as kids.
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Awesomeness Archives: 1965 Ford Mustang Sport Wagon
A custom builder has created what may be the ultimate interpretation of the original Ford Mustang.
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Akira Iida Drifts The 2012 Lexus LFA: Video
With a screaming 4.8-liter V-10 engine channeling 552 horsepower through its rear wheels, few other production cars are more suitable for drifting than the 2012 Lexus LFA. Take an expect driver like Akira Iida, a man that’s competed in Japan’s Super GT touring car series as well as the...
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The Palatov dp4 is a crazy fast machine, unleashes properly in the hands of a professional race driver.
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Men Use Porsches Like Peacocks Use Feathers: Study
Are Porsche owners more attractive to women? Study says yes, but only for tonight.
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1939 Plexiglas Pontiac Could Fetch Half A Million At Auction
If you have any embarassing habits as you sit in traffic, then this could be your automotive arch-enemy. Nose pickers and secret scratchers need not apply. The transparent transport in question is a 1939 Pontiac Plexiglas Delux Six Ghost Car that was created for the 1939 World's Fair in New York...
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Stewart, Hamilton Mobil 1 F1-NASCAR Car Swap: Gallery
Two drivers, each at the top of their respective series, meet up at Watkins Glen International to swap cars and see what it's like on the other side of the fence.
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SRT Gives Sneak Peek At Next-Gen Dodge Viper...Motorhome
Sometimes stupid questions get stupid answers. In response to numerous requests for early looks at the next-generation of the Dodge Viper, the DriveSRT Facebook page gives us... a motorhome. Yes, it's a Viper SRT 10 three-axle camper van, and yes, it's still sporting the old Viper front-end. No...
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Gumball 3000 Lamborghini Fearless In Water Crossing: Video
There are Lamborghinis and then there are Lamborghinis. Many, if not most, are coddled their whole lives, living decadent lives of garage- and trailer-bound pampering, rarely, if ever, seeing the kind of use for which they're ostensibly built. This one, however, has gone well beyond the usual...
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Like you, we're fed up with waiting on Apple to put out, whether it's the white iPhone 4 or any iPad 2. Or maybe a Genius Bar waitron who doesn't give you the idiot look when you don't "live" TCP/IP protocols. The dude in the Honda Accord above obviously couldn't wait for Apple to get its act together either. Seeking free hardware--or so the local cops think--the perp smashed his car into the Greensboro, N.C., Apple store ("at the Friendly Center") in the hopes of jacking some product. Clearly, he does not get the concierge concept, and clearly he does not have a Genius Bar appointment...
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1978 AMX Showdown Is Hilarious: Video
Given enough time, a whole set of doctoral theses could probably be written about the content of this 1978 AMC AMX ad, from gender roles to car design to the evolution of marketing. But we're not concerned with all of that: the video is simply hilarious. Whether it's the Fonzie clone in the one car...
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2011 Woodward Dream Cruise Gets Chevrolet Sponsorship
Detroit is dying, fading into a cheap reproduction of its one-time Motor City greatness. But that doesn't stop the city's sprawling suburbs from hosting one of the biggest, most impressive displays of cars anywhere: the Woodward Dream Cruise. This year, it's sponsored by Chevrolet. Chevy's...
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Driver ‘Arrested’ For Drifting Around Police Car: Video
Before the angry comments start coming in, let us be the first to state that this is not real and is in fact just a mock scenario involving a rogue driver in a parking lot drifting around a police car. The video is a promotional piece for the Joe Usry Auto Group located in Jackson, Mississippi, a...
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Tanner Foust Takes Hot Wheels Jump To Record 332-Foot Distance
Maybe I was irreparably scarred by my youth watching Dukes of Hazzard, but jumping cars is just about the coolest thing a person can do. Unfortunately, cars don't magically repair themselves like the Dodge Chargers did on the show. But not all cars are used like handi-wipes when filming stunt...
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Snooki Has Another Run-In With The Law (Literally)
There's controversy brewing in Italy these days, and it has nothing to do with Berlusconi or teenage mistresses. No, the cause of the consternation is the return of the Italians' long-lost cousins: the cast of MTV's Jersey Shore. Things didn't get any calmer on Monday, when one of the gang --...
Richard Read