Crashes
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The Ford Mustang Cobra Jet, which comes in normally-aspirated, supercharged and (now) twin-turbo variants, is designed with a singular purpose in mind: to get through the quarter-mile as quickly as possible. The turn-key drag racer, which can be had for as little as $85,490 (for the normally-aspirated version), is built in limited quantities only, making them as valuable as collector cars as they are as race cars. In other words, the first rule is this: thou shalt not stack thine Cobra Jet. As Mustangs Daily points out, we’ve seen dozens of Cobra Jet videos where everything goes right...
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Plane Crashes Into Car While Attempting To Land: Video
A dramatic crash took place at Northwest Regional Airport in Roanoke, Texas over the weekend, involving a plane crashing into a moving car while it was attempting to land. The video below, which was filmed by Kandy Davis and posted on WFAA, shows a single-engine Cessna coming into land and then...
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Nissan DeltaWing Overnight Repair Job Timelapse: Video
This isn't the first time a race car has been crashed hard and fixed overnight. It's not even the most dramatic repair job we've seen done under the same conditions. But it's still damned impressive. Here, you'll see the Nissan DeltaWing/Highcroft Racing team strip down and rebuild most of the rear...
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Onboard Footage Of The Nissan DeltaWing Crash: Video
Yesterday we brought you the news that the Nissan DeltaWing racer had been involved in its second at-speed crash, this time colliding with a GTC Porsche 911 in practice for Saturday’s ALMS Petit Le Mans. At this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, the experimental car was take out of contention by a...
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Nissan Juke-R, Five Focus STs For SEMA, Double Ferrari Crash: Car News Headlines
The Nissan Juke-R was once just a funky project for an arm of Nissan's global operations. Now it has completed its progression to limited-production customer car, with chassis #001 complete and on its way to its new owner. Only a handful will be built. Ford is planning five tuned Focus ST...
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Ferrari 458 Spider And California Involved In Crash In China
Two drivers taking part in a Ferrari cruise in China over the weekend unfortunately met with a very nasty accident, which saw both of their exotics destroyed. The crash is believed to have occurred on the Baomao Expressway near Shaanxi in Northwest China. The cars involved were a Ferrari 458 Spider...
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UPDATE: The 2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series has been revealed. Click here for all the details. We’ve been bringing you spy shots of prototypes for the upcoming SLS AMG Black Series model from Mercedes-Benz for close to a year now, with one of the prototypes most recently being spotted conducting some high-speed tests on Germany’s Nürburgring race track. Unfortunately, it appears that the prototype has now crashed on the ‘Ring and caught fire. The good news is that the driver and passenger managed to walk away from the crash, long before the flames took over the...
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Injured F1 Driver Maria De Villota's Recovery Continues
Last July, Marussia F1 test driver Maria De Villota was seriously injured during straight-line testing of the team’s current formula one car. Upon returning to the pit area, De Villota’s car seemed to suddenly accelerate, impacting the rear of the team’s support truck. The...
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Four Killed In Gruesome Double GT-R Crash
Four young men are dead and two people seriously injured after a crash in Malaysia earlier today that involved two Nissan GT-R supercars. The accident happened at about 4 am local time on a road near the country’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. The two cars, alleged to be speeding, lost control in...
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Jaguar F-Type Priced, Nissan GT-R Crashed, Toyota Electric 'Ring Record: Car News Headlines
The 2014 Jaguar F-Type just made its debut at the Paris auto show, and now it has been priced--starting from $69,000. Nissan's GT-R is still one of the most impressive bits of performance machinery around, but in the wrong hands, even it can't save a driver from themselves. A new video is proof...
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Nissan GT-R Gets Airborne Then Crashes: Video
Warning: This video contains some NSFW language. A nice cruise on some back roads quickly turns into a disaster for one unfortunate Nissan GT-R driver. As this video from YouTube user Alex Shin shows, an impatient driver of a silver GT-R proceeding in what appears to be a procession of sports cars...
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McLaren P1 Video, BMW Goes 3-Cylinder, Paris In Review: Today's Car News
If you missed it, the biggest thing to hit the Paris Auto Show was the McLaren P1. Ron Dennis, Frank Stephenson, and Antony Sheriff gathered to talk about the car on video. Check it out. BMW is bringing its three-cylinder engines to the U.S. We're inclined to think that's a good thing, but what do...
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A 21-year-old man driving a Lamborghini Gallardo in Sydney, Australia that he had borrowed from a friend, unfortunately met with an accident involving a taxi traveling in the same direction. Upon impact, both the silver Lamborghini and the taxi ran off the road, with both cars then colliding into a pole. The driver of the Lamborghini, Will Shao, was stuck for two hours before rescue crews could safely remove him. He suffered serious leg injuries and was taken to hospital along with a 19-year-old female passenger who needed to be treated for a broken leg. The taxi driver, a 36-year-old man...
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Car Flipped Over By Downed Power Lines: Video
If there ever was a video you had to see to believe, this latest clip of a very unusual crash taking place in Russia would certainly be one of the top contenders. The clip shows what appears to be an ordinary intersection on a bright sunny day. Unfortunately, there are some downed power lines...
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Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera Crashes In Saudi Arabia
A Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera has been involved in a recent crash that took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. This image shows the wreckage of the white Gallardo coupe after it was delivered to a local scrap yard. The car has sustained major damage on all four sides and is...
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Nissan GT-R Crash Takes Out Driver's Ed Car
When it comes to crashes between a driving school car and another vehicle, the blame generally goes to the student driver. We don’t know for sure what happened in the accident pictured below, but from the look of things it involved a student driver in a Perodua Kancil and a non-student driver...
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Lamborghini Aventador Crashes In Czech Republic
This week is proving to be a sad one for supercar lovers. Following news of a crash involving a Ferrari F40 in Canada yesterday, we now have images and a few details about a Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 that has crashed in the Czech Republic. Like the F40 crash, this one appears to be rather...
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Ferrari F40 Crashes In The Wet In Vancouver: Video
Video footage has surfaced showing the wreckage of a Ferrari F40 that crashed on a street in the Canadian city of Vancouver over the weekend. The cause of the crash is yet to be determined, though wet weather may have been a factor. As the gruesome video reveals, the F40 has sustained some serious...
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Top safety marks for the Subaru and Scion sports car twins prove light and small doesn't have to mean unsafe.
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Ferrari-Driving Red Bull Heir Arrested Over Fatal Hit-And-Run
The grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink has been arrested following the death of a police officer in Bangkok, Thailand. Red Bull heir Vorayud Yoovidhaya is alleged to have hit the motorcycle of police officer Wichien Klanprasert at 5 a.m. local time with a grey Ferrari FF supercar...
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Pedestrian Caught Red-Handed Faking Car Accident: Video
A pedestrian in Taiwan has been caught red-handed faking a car accident thanks to a dashboard video camera located in the car in which he comes into contact with. Video footage shows the culprit running towards the stationary car and then throwing himself onto the hood. Afterwards, he lays still...
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Car Gets T-Boned By Tram: Video
Here's a video that exemplifies the old saying, “it pays to be patient.” A driver in a white sedan executes a left turn at a busy intersection, not realizing that a tram was approaching in the same direction, on his left. As this video footage reveals, just as the white sedan is...
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Special Edition Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Crashes
It’s very rare that we come across a Bugatti Veyron crash; probably because so few of the cars are in existence, and even then they’re unlikely to be driven much during the year. However, every now and then some gruesome images of a wrecked example turn up. The latest is this image of a...
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Three Serbian Rally Spectators Killed In Crash: Video
Warning: the video above contains footage of the accident that took the lives of three spectators. Rally racing, like any other kind of motorsport, is dangerous. It's dangerous simply because of the laws of physics: heavy things traveling quickly can cause lots of damage to our relatively soft...
Nelson Ireson