Showing posts with label Offbeat News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Offbeat News. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

UK Insurer Parts the Most Unreliable and Costly Car to Fix

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In an article on a BMW-faced Honda Accord we found for sale on Craigslist back in 2008, we wrote that in a perfect world, our ultimate car ...

Sir Stirling Moss Buys an Aston Martin Cygnet for his Wife

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You would never think that an Aston Martin would need any sort of marketing push from a personality like Sir Stirling Moss, but to play arou...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Top Gear: McLaren MP4-12C Records Second Fastest Power Lap Time, Trumps Ferrari 458 [with Video]

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We have already seen Fifth Gear’s Tiff Needell and Jason Plato pit the new McLaren MP4-12C against the Ferrari 458 . Now, it’s time for BBC’...

It’s a Man’s World: 7 in 10 UK Women Prefer to Leave Car Servicing to Men

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Despite all the talk about equality of the two sexes, there are still some things that even women prefer to be done by men like having their...

Yeeeee-Haaa! Fail Jump: The VW Caddy Edition

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Many have tried, but few, if any that is, have succeeded. We’re talking about people who try to imitate the driving style of the Dukes of Ha...

Video: F1 Racing Cars Launching at Goodwood Festival

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OK, so a highly-tuned Toyota Celica with the innards of a Corolla WRC (and then some) may have posted the fastest time at the Goodwood hill...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Caught on Video: Nissan GT-R Crashing into Parked Cars in Moscow

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A crazy car crash that took place in Moscow, Russia , on July 6, 2011, was caught on film by a pair of security cameras. The person responsi...
Friday, July 8, 2011

Toyota Forklift Comes to the Rescue of Chevrolet Camaro Stuck on a…Curb

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It can’t get more embarrassing than this – well, that is, unless someone has footage showing us how the owner of the blue Chevrolet Camaro ...

Pole Turns 1991 Audi 100 V6 into a 2008 Audi A4 Lookalike

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The latest addition to our automotive travesty replica section comes from Poland and it concerns a 1991 Audi 100 2.8 V6 Quattro (the A6’s ...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

You Can’t Touch This: Boy Racer in Citroen Saxo has Cops Running in Circles

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A rather foxy yet clearly irresponsible teenage driver of a Citroen Saxo had British police running in circles –literally- in a chase that ...

Jay Leno Visits Mercedes’ AMG HQ, Drives SLS Roadster and E-Cell

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As we all know, Jay Leno is a car fanatic. So when he had the chance to visit the AMG division of Mercedes-Benz at Affalterbach and drive t...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Ford Asks: What Should the Focus EV Sound Like?

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So the all-electric Ford Focus EV is landing stateside in late 2011 to snub its nose at the likes of the Nissan LEAF and Mitsubishi i MiEV ...

Junk TV: Netherland’s Worst Driver Confirms his Credentials

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From the imaginative world of TV reality shows comes our next story. The show in question is “ Wie wordt De Allerslechtste Chauffeur Van Ned...

Videos: Ferrari 458 Italia Crashes, Tractor Comes to the Rescue

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The bashed up 599 GTO we showed you yesterday wasn’t the only Ferrari to bite the dust at this past weekend's Trofeo Ferrari Club Itali...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Former U.S. Ford Police Interceptors find New Life in Britain as "Rare American Muscle"

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You know what they say: “One man’s trash is another man's treasure” . While police forces in the U.S. are rapidly replacing their Ford C...

Point, Click and Hold: Peugeot’s Novel Ad Campaign Makes Users Concentrate on Their Computer Screens

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Ever see one of those stupid competitions where a group of people try and see who can keep their hands on a car or a truck the longest, and ...

Video: Rare Ferrari 599 GTO Bites the Dust

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While we are happy to see that at least some owners of the rare Ferrari 599 GTO (of which only 599 examples will be built) take their cars ...
Friday, July 1, 2011

Report: Owners Leasing Cars May Be Able to Make a Profit

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With the recent surge in used car prices in the U.S., many people leasing vehicles have discovered the surprising fact that the market valu...

China Opens World’s Longest Ocean Bridge Measuring 26 Miles in Length! [with Videos]

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China opened today to the public not just one or two, but amazingly four of the world’s longest over-sea bridges. Three of the bridges are p...

Kia Hooks its Belgium CEO up to a Lie Detector to Dispel Doubts About 7 Year Warranty

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If there’s one thing South Korea’s Kia does better than any other automaker, it is offering especially long warranties. In Belgium, for ins...