Fun Stuff
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The Youabian Puma is a vehicle we’ve previously been reluctant to touch (or look at directly). But there’s a promo video of the hideous beast roaming the web, and we just had to share, if only because misery loves company. DON'T MISS: Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Dyno Tested, May Be More Powerful Than Claimed: Video This, friends and neighbors, is the Youabian Puma. It’s a custom-created monstrosity that, according to its maker, was created with one goal in mind: “To standout and be unique!” Job done, then. Unfortunately, the goals of standing out and being...
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8x8 Mercedes-Benz Actros RC Truck Drifts Like A Boss: Video
This isn’t a new car you can buy. It’s not even a car you can drive. It doesn’t really make any practical sense at all. But it’s awesome. Why? Because it’s a drifting 8x8 Mercedes-Benz Actros semi-truck. Two steering axles add to the fun. MUST READ: Hennessey Planning...
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Bus-Loading Superhero Carries Motorcycle Up Ladder On His Head: Video
Can a person put a motorcycle on their head, climb a ladder with it, and load it onto a bus? If you think the answer is no, you’re like the rest of the human race. Except for this guy in India. MUST SEE: Here's A Challenger SRT Hellcat Third-Gear Burnout To Celebrate Official $59,995 Price...
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Lawnmower Racing With Kimi Räikkönen: Video
If you were wondering about how Kimi Räikkönen’s back has healed after ending last season early to undergo surgery, wonder no more. Here he is thrashing racing lawnmowers around a very bumpy circuit, punishing all challengers in stoically Kimi style. ALSO SEE: Stolen Tesla Police...
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Human Car Sound Simulator Nails It Four Times In A Row: Video
We’ve all done it, but some of us are better at it than others. Making car sounds with your mouth is an elemental part of being an enthusiast. This guy makes some truly amazing car sounds. ALSO SEE: Dubai Police Cars Are The World's Fastest: Video Live from the grounds of Rally Australia (via...
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Honda Racing Driver Tackles Spa In The 130-MPH Mean Mower: Video
Honda’s Mean Mower is back. After setting the Guinness World Record for the fastest speed reached by a lawn mower, the 109-horsepower garden tool has now tacked Belgium’s legendary Spa Francorchamps with Honda racing driver Tiago Monteiro behind the wheel. ALSO SEE: GM Limiting...
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Autobahn Adventures offers all-inclusive European driving tours.
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Barracuda Leak, Tea-Powered MINI, Doggie Driving Lessons: The Web's Best April Fool Stories
Another year, another first of April and chances to pull pranks on family and workmates. And another chance to see what car manufacturers and websites have come up with to fool the general population with new vehicles and unusual special editions. Below is our round-up of the best to drop onto the...
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Tackle Some Of Europe’s Best Roads And Tracks With The Autobahn Tour
Anyone who’s a serious fan of autos needs to, at least once in their life, travel to Europe and visit places like Monaco, Germany’s speed-unlimited sections of autobahn, and the Swiss Alps, to not only soak up the atmosphere but tackle some of the best driving roads the world has to...
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You Think Goldfish Can't Drive? Wrong. Fish On Wheels: Video
Goldfish. They're surprisingly good pets, especially when you're young, but unless you have deceptive and kind-hearted parents, they're also an early lesson in mortality. But they're also surprisingly good at something else: driving. That's right, goldfish can drive--at least, they can with the...
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V-12 Coffee Machine Perfect For Revving Up Your Morning
V-12 engines are as much works of art as they are works of engineering, and have powered some of the most desirable cars on the planet. Still, there's a cheaper way to get your V-12 fix and one that'll do an equally good job of waking you up in the morning--the Espresso Veloce Serie Titanio V-12...
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Chuck Norris Christmas Message Out-Spilts Van Damme: Video
The only Christmas present Chuck Norris gives you is allowing you to live another year. But this year, he's also sending us an unusual Christmas message. Well, it isn't strictly Chuck Norris--more the work of Hungarian firm Delov Digital, which has put together a new take on Volvo's semi-truck...
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In today's edition of "things you wish you'd done if you had the brains and not wasted your life in front of the TV", an Australian and Romanian duo has come up with the childhood toy of our dreams: A full-size, working car made from Lego. It's the brainchild of Australian-based Steve Sammartino, a self-proclaimed entrepreneur and marketing guy, and 20-year old Romanian technology genius Raul Oaida. The entire project was crowdfunded via just a single Tweet, says AutoWeek. Under the guise of the "Super Awesome Micro Project", that tweet brought in enough cash for the half-million Lego pieces...
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Can You Name These 77 Famous TV & Movie Cars?
Rendered in a cute animated style that captures their most essential features, the 77 movie and television cars featured at the BBC's Autos channel today are some of the most iconic of all of four-wheeled history. Can you name them all? Some are rather obvious (who could miss the Ghost Busters'...
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World's Smallest V-12 Engine Is The Ultimate Desk Toy: Video
Small engines tend to be a little uninteresting for all but the geekiest of gearheads. After all, small engines tend to mean small power, and that means low speeds. But make that tiny engine a V-8, and things get a whole lot more interesting. DON'T MISS: The Internet Brings Us Another Tiny...
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Realistic F1 Simulator Ride Puts Fans In The Cockpit: Video
Played the latest F1 2013 racing game? You'll be aware just how realistic racing games are getting then, particularly if you've been playing them long enough to remember what F1 games were like a couple of decades ago. But there's still something missing--that sense of movement, a fully immersive...
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'Ken Box' Shows Anyone Can Do Gymkhana: Video
Rally driver Ken Block might not have won a round of the World Rally Championship just yet, but when his résumé includes five Gymkhana videos (and a sixth on the way), we can forgive him that. We can also forgive him because of all the hilarious parody videos that have followed--and...
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The Internet Brings Us Another Tiny (Awesome) V-8 Engine: Video
This V-8 model only displaces 45 cc, but it's got dual overhead cams and electronic fuel injection.
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The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is a lot of things to many people, including being a Monopoly token it seems. That’s right, the new Corvette Stingray has been immortalized as a Monopoly token, but not for the version of the game you most likely remember from your childhood but the latest Monopoly Empire. World Car Fans managed to dig up this photo of the Corvette Stingray token, which was posted up on the Corvette Facebook page. The sports car token joins other consumable icons immortalized as game tokens including a Coca Cola bottle and a McDonald's French fries serving. Becoming a...
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NFL's Nate Burleson Posts Pics Of Crashed SUV, Pizza To Instagram
NFL players crashing their vehicles is a relatively frequent occurrence. But NFL players following up their crashes with Instagram photos of the crashed vehicle--and the pizza they broke an arm trying to save--well, that doesn't happen every day. But it happened today. Nate Burleson, a wide...
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Mercedes-Benz Shows The Magic Body Control Of ... Chickens?
Mercedes-Benz is well-known for its magically controlling names for its high-tech products. Wipers that shoot cleaning fluid directly onto the window? Magic Vision Control. A sunroof that varies its opacity? Magic Sky Control. And now, on the new 2014 S Class, a system that scans the road ahead and...
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Driver Bashes Way Past Taxi In Front Of Drunken Mob: Video
There are times in life when we've all wanted to just stand on the throttle and smash our way through traffic, but few of us have been stupid or desperate enough to actually do it. This driver was apparently both. The YouTube posting describes the driver as a drunk woman, but gives no other...
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Angry BMW M6 Owner Smashes Car With Axe At Frankfurt Auto Show: Video
There are many reasons to beat an M6 to death with a bat...wait, no, there really aren't. Unless you're this guy outside the Frankfurt auto show. ALSO SEE: Wife Demolishes Cheating Husband’s Audi R8: Not So Fast, Definitely Furious Apparently dissatisfied with his M6's reliability and BMW's...
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Center-Steer, Back-Seat Driving Nissan Patrol: Crazy Insane, Or Insane Crazy?
There's nothing about this Nissan Patrol that makes sense. We love it while hating it. What's so different? There are no driver controls in the front row. They've been relocated to the center-mounted second row. Why? We're not sure the guys (at King of Customs in Dubai) who built it know. They...
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