The C7 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is a very competent sports car, there’s no debating that. However, the owner of this particular example has made a couple of highly questionable modifications to their car. The first thing that will no doubt catch your eye is the rear wing. It is odd, to say the least, and
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The small turbocharged engines in most modern mainstream cars aren’t much different from the electric motors that will replace them in the coming years. They’re not designed to sound or look good, only to work efficiently. You’ll never feel like lifting the hood on your Hyundai i10 to show your buddies the mighty 99 hp
When most people are issued a speeding fine, they take that as a sign to slow down and drive a little more responsibly. Evidently, getting slapped with a speeding fine didn’t do anything to dissuade the owner of this silver Lexus IS from breaking the speed limits. Taking to Facebook, the California Highway Patrol in
Ammo NYC has made a habit of detailing rare, unique, or otherwise interesting cars and showing you the process on YouTube. Their latest car might be the rarest yet, the Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina. While there is certainly an inherent pleasure in watching an expert perform a process well, the video also gives us unprecedented
Three car thieves have been arrested in the UK after stealing five Mitsubishi Outlanders with a device disguised as a Nintendo Game Boy. Authorities arrested 29-year-old Dylan Armer, 33-year-old Christopher Bowes, and 31-year-old Thomas Poulson after they were caught on a security camera stealing a Mitsubishi Outlander from a driveway in Scholes on July 20.
Dramatic dashcam footage out of New Zealand has captured the moment the driver of a Mitsubishi Galant slammed into a Tesla Model X owned by Geoff Gardiner in a horrifying and bizarre case of road rage. The video shows the driver of the Model X passing the beaten-up Galant on a road near Auckland Airport.
A new TikTok challenge, dubbed the “Lug Nut Challenge”, is seeing people loosen the lug nuts on innocent bystanders’ cars for fun. The challenge is as simple as it is dangerous, and involves loosening the lug nuts on a random car, then filming the aftermath to post to the app. Needless to say, apart from
A man has died and seven other people were injured, two seriously, in a tragic accident at Germany’s Nürburgring circuit on Monday. The accident happened on the old 12.9-mile Nordschleife track during one of the regular touristenfahrten days where members of the public can pay €25 ($29) to drive their own cars. Local media outlets
Apparently, there’s more to this incident than meets the eye as new footage that emerged on TikTok (mirror here) allegedly shows the Lamborghini driver illegally overtaking the Audi that was stopped at a crosswalk, nearly hitting a bicyclist in the process. The woman who was driving the Audi claims in a second TikTok video that
Fender has partnered with Lexus to produce 100 special guitars. Finished in Structural Blue, the LC Stratocaster is painted in the same color as the Lexus LC 500 Convertible Inspiration Series. “When we saw the first iteration of this Stratocaster, we couldn’t believe how well it matched the original LC 500 Inspiration Series,” said Vinay
A fleet of Maserati Quattroportes bought by the Papua New Guinea government has been offered for sale at a sizeable discount. The fleet of 40 luxury Italian sedans was imported to transport dignitaries attending the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation (APEC) summit. Each car reportedly cost over K500,000 ($142,000) each, with a total of K20m ($5.7
A group of thieves recently broke into a metro Detroit Dodge dealer and made off with several high-performance models worth $329,000. According to WDIV, the thieves broke into Szott Dodge in Highland Township on September 29th by apparently forcing open a door. Once inside, they rummaged around and found a locker that contained keys to
People pull off all kinds of weird stuff every day, but hanging on to the side of a semi-truck when it’s on the freeway, like one unidentified man in Atlanta, Georgia did a few weeks ago, is not just weird – it’s extremely dangerous. The shirtless man was seen sitting on the steps of the
4Design, a Japanese crafts company, has released a new product that will, no doubt, appeal to petrolheads that also have a sweet tooth. Working together with BBS Japan, the company has developed a set of chocolate molds that allow you to craft your own wheel out of chocolate. The company says that the “Hanagata” molds’
Riding a motorcycle can be dangerous; racing other bikes, at night, is not the wisest thing to do if you care about your well-being. If you’ve ever spent any amount of time on YouTube, or social media in general, you’ve probably seen street racing videos of motorcyclists speeding through traffic at frightening speeds with no
A Tesla Model 3 driver is the subject of some ire in the U.K., as he published a TikTok video of himself making fun of the fuel crisis. The driver, who didn’t want to be identified but spoke to Wales Online, is from Swansea and said that it “was randomly filmed when I was going
Every second year since 2013, North Dakota resident Bill Fischer’s Chevrolet Avalanche gets filled with yellow-husked black walnuts by a neighborhood squirrel. This year, that squirrel was particularly busy. After returning from a recent trip, Fischer opened up the hood of his Chevy and was presented with hundreds of walnuts. Clearing them out wasn’t an
A Tesla Model S P100D was destroyed after catching fire at a service center in Marietta, Georgia earlier in the week. Details about the blaze are limited and while the City of Marietta page on Facebook shared images of the Tesla to its Facebook page, it did not reveal what triggered the fire. Watch Also:
The New York City Sheriffs Department towed seven conversion vans, which were being used as vacation rentals on the popular Airbnb platform, off the streets of Manhattan this week. Five of the vans’ registrations and New Jersey plates had long expired, some as far back as 2000, according to Post sources. The NYC Sheriff shared
There is something weirdly satisfying about watching a dirty and damaged vehicle transforming into a pristine example of automotive craftsmanship. What started as a trend from barn finds and classic car restoration projects, has evolved into a YouTube craze involving scale models. People seem to love watching allegedly abandoned scale models in a bad shape
A 16-year-old driver of a Ford F-Series pickup truck is under investigation after striking six cyclists in Waller County, Texas while allegedly trying to roll coal. Click 2 Houston reports that the accident happened just after 10:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, September 25. A group of cyclists were traveling along U.S. Route 290 at the
Indicators, turn signals, call them what you will, their job is to help you avoid a smash by letting other traffic know you’re about to make a move, and in which direction you’re going to make it. Sounds simple enough, except when Mini’s Union Jack-themed taillights are involved. As a recent story on Jalopnik highlighted
Most drivers can surely relate to attempting a risky overtake, but few are as risky as what this Subaru Crosstrek driver did to overtake a truck with almost all his wheels off the pavement. The incident took place in North Carolina on US-321, where the video begins with the truck driver making his way down
In Pomona, Missouri, there’s a place where gearheads can be free, where the only limit on the amount of fun you can have is the amount of time you’ve booked. That place is called Little Talladega. An Airbnb located on a 60-acre property, the location features an 8,500+ sq ft Tuscan style home with accommodations
The Dodge Intrepid, also known as the Chrysler Intrepid in Canada, was one of the more intriguing vehicles produced by Dodge/Chrysler in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is remembered for its sleek shape and has served as the basis for a project car that was recently shared to Reddit. While the vehicle you’re looking
Bugatti has always been notorious for high servicing and maintenance costs, which is logical considering the asking price for their cheapest model is over $2.5 million. The company is offering a dedicated global service program for the Chiron and Veyron, but what is the real cost of ownership? Muhammad Al Qawi Zamani, a Bugatti enthusiast from Malaysia
There is a Facebook Group called Unnecessary automobile nose swaps and while most posts are photoshop-edited pictures, there is a real car listing that perfectly encapsulates the group’s theme. The car hiding behind the Hummer’s face is a 1995 Nissan Rasheen coming from Japan and it is currently offered for sale in Richmond. We guess that most
On Friday, the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) released new dashcam footage of the incident described below that occurred last month on August 29, 2021, when a Tesla Model 3 that was reportedly on Autopilot slammed into a police car nearly hitting an officer who was responding to a disabled vehicle in Orange County. Thanks to
On any given day classic car auction site Bring A Trailer brings the virtual hammer down on any number of interesting cars. Modern, classic, modified or museum-grade, BaT celebrates them all, whether they were built in Detroit or Dingolfing. But today the theme was very definitely Turkish, and we don’t mean it was hosting a
If you’re a petrolhead and you’ve been thinking about proposing to that special someone, these automotive-inspired wedding rings will probably make quite an impression. These rings have been brought to life through a partnership between Scrap Car Comparison and British jeweler Edward Fleming. The rings use materials from scrapped catalytic converters and custom rings inspired