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This coming Saturday, June 4th, the Hot Wheels Legends Tour makes a stop in Bentonville, Arkansas to highlight the “best of Arkansan custom car culture.” The winner will go on to be a part of the Global Grand Finale later this year in November. Here’s a look at four of the main competitors. First up

A camera has captured the moment that race car driver Dominik Olbert crashed his KTM X-Bow GTX while competing in April’s Pöllauberg hillclimb event in Austria. In this clip from YouTube channel Motorsportvideos Luky M., Olbert can be seen taking a left-hand bend but appears to have done so with a little too much speed.

A highway in rural Utah had to be shut down to give a bear a police escort to the other side. The crossing happened at U.S. Route 89 near Ephraim, Utah, which is 115 miles south of Salt Lake City. According to the Ephraim City Police Facebook page, the bear had been spotted a few

What is it about the drivers of cars with horses on the grille? In the latest incident, a Ferrari driver has proven that their car was too much to handle, crashing into five parked vehicles in the U.K. last week. Emergency responders discovered a severely damaged Ferrari SF90 Stradale and its trail of destruction on

The Tallahassee Police Department recently posted a video showing what happens when a Ford Mustang driver and intoxication combine. Posted on their social medial channels on May 16, the Tallahassee PD reports that this was one of four DUIs they attended to that weekend and that there was, fortunately, no one hurt in this accident

A Chrysler 300C driver caused havoc on a car meet in Maryland last Tuesday when she tried to hit a police officer and other bystanders with a drifting vehicle. The 22-year old woman has been arrested and faces charges of attempted first-degree murder. The incident took place at a Walmart near Arundel Mills Circle in

Hyundai’s New Ioniq 5 has an automatic parking feature that allows it to slot itself into a space without the need of a driver behind the wheel, but as with all self-driving technology, it hasn’t been totally perfected yet. Bridie Schmidt is an associate editor for The Driven, an Australia-based website that focuses mainly on

Alpine’s A110 sports car might not be the most powerful mid-engined machine, but it’s so much fun to drive you know you risk getting a speeding ticket every time you get behind the wheel. As one French owner discovered, however, you might even end up getting a ticket when there’s no one behind the wheel,

In what must be one of the weirdest videos we’ve seen recently, a Texas man has filmed an on-road interaction that sounds utterly absurd. After a minor traffic disagreement, one driver in an Infiniti G35X sedan busts out a hatchet before crashing into another vehicle. The driver of the camera vehicle is DexFPV on Reddit

Brake-checking a following driver is dumb, and you should never do it no matter how mad you are with the idiot riding your tail. If a cop saw someone do it to you, you’d expect them to be dealt with harshly, and rightly so. But in this video it’s a cop doing the brake-checking, and

The 2022 M5 CS isn’t just the ultimate version of BMW‘s sports sedan but some think it is one of the finest M models ever created. Powered by a twin-turbo 4.4-liter V8 tuned to deliver 627 hp (468 kW / 636 PS) and 553 lb-ft (750 Nm) of torque for a 0-60mph (96 km/h) in

We are definitely aware of the ultra-expensive costs of buying and maintaining a Bugatti, but the internet keeps surprising us with independent listings of OEM parts for the Chiron. The craziest example we have seen so far is the pictured front end assembly coming off a Chiron Super Sport 300+, which is listed for an

Maple syrup is great on pancakes, waffles and French toast, but gas tanks? Not so much. One woman learned that the hard way after an argument with 42 year old Jeremy Fischer in Alpena, Michigan. According to MLive, the woman and her boyfriend got into an argument with Fischer while in the parking lot of

If you want the keys to a Lucid Air Dream Edition but missed out on the limited-run model when it was new, then this example might be your next best option. This particular Lucid Air was damaged in a crash and is currently up for sale in Detroit, Michigan, through none other than Copart. It

Did you know that Mercedes-AMG branding is also used in a series of high-end strollers in collaboration with Hartan? Inspired by the popularity of limited edition specials in the automotive world, Hartan and AMG revealed a special version of the AMG GT pushchair that will only be produced in 299 units worldwide. Hartan says that

Luxury performance cars don’t get much more desirable than the Mercedes-AMG E 63 and Audi RS6 Avant but thanks to a recent mishap, there are now two fewer on our roads. This video recently found its way onto Facebook and initially shows the driver of a dark grey E 63 powersliding through a parking lot.

The rise of electric vehicles has made more of us aware of the fact that electric motors are very torquey but one man in California decided to demonstrate that with his motorized wheelchair. First filmed and posted to Facebook by Christopher Jacoby while in El Cajon, California, near San Diego, the wheelchair driver can be

Germany will be employing a new type of camera technology to help stop distracted driving, which can see into your car and detect if you’re holding a smartphone. Distracted driving is a common problem all around the world, and as smartphones become more connected with our vehicles, many people find it harder and harder not

Aftermarket warranties understandably get a bad wrap since oftentimes they can be a waste of cash. One Kia Sorento owner in the Twin-Cities area though took advantage of a 10-year unlimited mileage warranty and it paid off in an unheard-of way. According to one technician familiar with the vehicle in question, this owner saved tens

When you purchase a used car and find a quirky issue or two it’s not uncommon to drop it off at your local mechanic to get the problem sorted. Sadly for one of my friends, that work stopped abruptly when the shop found a nail (yes, the type that gets hammered) driven into the fuse

We all want to get a good deal and a dollar isn’t going nearly as far as it did a year ago but trying to haul a car halfway inside of a U-Haul probably isn’t the best solution. Amazingly, the person who came up with the idea and then attempted to execute it made some

Does everyone remember how the car company Saturn was marketed towards women? Well, one company in China, Great Wall’s ORA brand, has decided that it should be far more blatant and transparent about its marketing. The resulting vehicle is so sexist that a setting specifically for use while women are on their period might not

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The 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe has become the world’s most expensive car selling for an astonishing €135 million or nearly US$142.9 million, smashing the old record set by a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that is believed to have sold for $48.4 million in 2018 by a whopping by $94.5 million. One of two

According to a new early estimate of traffic fatalities in 2021, the NHTSA says that we’ve hit a new 16-year high.Nearly 43,000 individuals are estimated to have lost their lives in traffic crashes last year, recording a significant increase of 10.5-percent over 2020. According to the data, just about every subset of drivers and crash

No one likes seeing a damaged supercar and this orange McLaren 720S crashed in Toluca, Mexico is a particularly sad sight to see. Details about the crash aren’t known but a video shared to Instagram gives us a glimpse of the damage sustained to the mid-engined supercar. Evidently, it will not be cheap to fix

Police in Italy have arrested a 37-year-old man for driving a rented Maserati Levante down Rome’s iconic Trinità dei Monti stairs, also known as the Spanish Steps. CCTV footage captured the black Levante driving down the steps in the early hours of the morning. Evidently, the driver of the Maserati didn’t really think through the

On any given day, we’re sure there are plenty of automotive accidents that wouldn’t even make a blip on the radar of most local fire departments. However, this automotive optical illusion has generated much discussion on Reddit, where it has over 940 comments and 20,300 upvotes. The photo was posted to Reddit’s r/IdiotsInCars, where it

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There is an old adage in the automotive world that goes when in doubt, flat out. An Infiniti driver whose attempt at drifting was recently posted online is a pretty good example of why that’s not always the case. It seems like the video starts in media res after the car has already started hitting