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The 2014 Chevrolet SS pace car in Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Unlimited exhibition race at Daytona got itself into trouble when a fire started inside its trunk. As the Fox Sports video above shows, smoke from the fire quickly engulfed the cabin and the driver, former NASCAR driver Brett...

The Lamborghini Aventador is well known for its fire-spitting abilities, with one of the cars recently being used to cook a Christmas turkey. Well, it looks like we can crown a new car with the admittedly made-up title of ‘King Of Flames’, the McLaren P1. The guys at Shmee150 were down...

The guys at RADO Motorsports tuning this twin-turbocharged 850-horsepower Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG might want to have a look at their decel map, judging by what happens as soon as they lift off the throttle on the dyno in this video. And yes, there's a dude sitting in the trunk (probably to aid...

A three-car pileup resulted in the destruction of a trio of Italian supercars.

Tesla Motors has asked the NHTSA to investigate the recent Model S fires, to remove doubt about the cars' safety.

If you'd returned to your Jaguar thirty years ago to find it had melted, your first thought would probably turn to the car's electrical system. Jaguars these days are a lot more reliable though, so the man who returned to find bits of his Jaguar XJ melting in a parking space in London might have...

Dick Van Dyke, famous for his roles in the Mary Poppins movie as well as television series The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder, had to pull over when a Jaguar XJ he was driving down a Los Angeles highway yesterday caught fire. A passerby, seeing the 87-year-old actor still in the car with...

The video above shows the sickening footage of an original Lamborghini Miura P400 SV going up in flames in the middle of a London street. The car had recently spent some time in a workshop and had only just been picked up before it caught on fire. The cause of the fire remains unknown, and sadly it...

During the devastating Hurricane Sandy that hit the Northeast last week, several cars parked in Port Newark, New Jersey succumbed to severe fire damage. Among the cars were 16 brand new Fisker Karma extended-range electric cars, images of which hit the Web on October 31st, a day after the fire...

A total of 16 Fisker Karma extended-range electric cars, each costing more than a $100k, have gone up in flames after reportedly being partially submerged by flash floods caused by Hurricane Sandy. The brand new cars were parked in Port Newark, New Jersey, and are believed to have caught fire last...

If you own a Ferrari California and live in Eastern Europe or Russia, you may want to just park your ride for a few days and rent a Fiat 500 to be safe. We’re sure it’s just coincidence, but another Ferrari California in the region has been destroyed this week. First, we told you about...

Fisker is investigating the cause of a fire that plagued one of its Karmas in Woodside, California in August 2012.

A Fisker Karma succumbed to fire yesterday in a parking lot in Woodside, California, with the owner allegedly having just left the extended-range electric luxury sedan to pick up some groceries. A video showing fire fighters putting out the flames has since been uploaded to YouTube, revealing that...

Argentinean soccer player Ever Banega, the midfielder for Spanish club Valencia CF, has had a series of mishaps involving cars recently, with the latest incident involving a Ferrari 360 Modena he recently acquired and was driving for the first time. While driving on a road near his Valencia...

Originally scheduled for July 8, the 2012 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, the 90th running of Colorado’s venerable ‘race to the clouds,’ will now take place on August 12 due to the devastating Waldo Canyon wildfire which is still yet to be completely contained. The fire has...

By anyone’s standards, the 616-horsepower McLaren MP4-12C (and soon, the MP4-12C Spider) is a fast car. Thanks to its advanced electronic stability control system, it’s also a very safe car, even in the hands of drivers unfamiliar with the car. Despite this, the car is still governed by...

An Audi R8 being driven westbound on the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto late on Monday somehow caught on fire, with the flames eventually engulfing most of the exotic sports car. Fire crews were quick on the scene but weren’t able to save the R8, which became nothing but a smoldering heap...

A Ferrari FF caught on fire earlier this week while it was being driven down a highway near the Polish city of Krakow. This is believed to be the third time that a FF has caught on the fire, with the previous reported incident taking place on a highway in China back in February and the first during...

Officials are currently investigating whether a Fisker Karma was the cause of a fire at a home in Houston, Texas recently.

Warning: Video contains some not-safe-for-work language. Firefighters were called into duty on Saturday when a Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 burst into flames on a highway near Aliso Viejo in Southern California. With no other reports of Aventadors going up in flames, it’s believed that this...