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Scary Motorcycle Crashes

LIFE has a slideshow of 24 scary motorcycle crashes.

Video: Luckiest Rally Driver Ever!

Video: Man Drives Through Wichita City Hall

This video shows a man driving 200 yard through Wichita City Hall. Why? Because he was asked to stop playing music loudly. He was jailed for 10 years. (News article)

World's Most Expensive Car

A 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa has set a new world record for the most expensive car ever sold at auction, costing the buyer 9.02 million euros ($12.15 million), according to RM Auctions, which organized the event.

The price, which includes a 10 percent buyer's premium on top of the "hammer price," is nearly 2 million euros more than the previous record set at a similar auction at Ferrari's headquarters a year ago, it said in a statement.

Ferrari built just 22 Scaglietti-designed Testa Rossas with the signature pontoon fenders between 1957 and 1958. It was a formidable racer - a 300 horsepower V12 and nimble handling will do that - and Testa Rossas won 10 of the 19 races they entered between 1958 and 1961.

More photos at Wired.

Lamborghini vs Hyundai

MOre photos of this strange accident here.

Video: Man Leaves Sunroof Open Whilst 'Pleasuring Himself' In Car

Video: Guardrail Crash Test Does Not Go As Planned

I think the railing failed the test.

Artist Creates INvisible Car

A design student has made an old Skoda "disappear" by painting it to merge with the surrounding car park.

Sara Watson, who is studying drawing at the University of Central Lancashire (Uclan), took three weeks to transform the car's appearance.

The car is now being used for advertising by the local recycling firm that donated the vehicle.

SoIFound.com has got a couple more photos.

Video: You Know You Are Rich When...

Video: Damon Hill Makes Presenter Throw Up

Google Street View Car 'Ducks' To Avoid Low Bridge

A Google Street View car in Pittsburgh, Pa. had to 'duck' when it encountered a bridge that was too low to allow it to pass with its camera extended on its stalk. As soon is it got to the other side of the bridge it extended it again.

Related: Google Street View car getting stuck in the mud in Australia.

Update: All links were going to the same page rather than different pages. I've fixed it.

Video: Funny Police Chase

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Woman Gets Locked Inside Her Car

Video: Rally Crash

A crash a Hollywood stunt coordinator would be proud of.

Cops Get Parking Ticket

A photo of police in London getting a parking ticket or parking on double yellow lines. Result!

Rainbow Car

Video: Man Holds Lamborghini Back For 7 Seconds

They've got world records for everything!

Video: How To Get Out Of A Tight Parking Space In Egypt

Learner Driver Just Misses Plane in Philippines

A Philippines plane with 80 passengers aboard was seconds away from a crash when a man teaching his girlfriend to drive sped across the runway as the aircraft landed, newspapers reported on Monday.

The Cebu Pacific plane touched down in an airport in the central Philippines but had to take off again when the pilot saw the couples' van crossing the run.

The "instructor" has been detained for questioning. [via]

Video: Mini Cabrio Car Wash

4 blokes take a ride through the car wash in a Mini convertible. [via]

Video: Woman Tries To Park Car

A Century of Motoring in America

Although this graphic contains a lot of American related entries, there are a lot of interesting facts such as when the first car radio went on sale and when the first car phone was installed.

Auto Polo

I love this photo showing a game of Auto Polo. The photo was taken in Decemeber 1912 shows somebody who had pressed to hard on the deceleratrix.

One of the comments on this site shows a game in action. [via]

Video: How Many Camels Can You Fit In A Car?

Video: Car vs Truck

Asleep? Fiddling with the radio? Suicidal?

Anatomy Of A Car Crash

This site has a created a timeline of acrash involving a stationary Ford Falcon XT sedan being struck in the driver's door by another vehicle travelling at 50 km/h.

The timeline shows how quickly the onboard computer can determine how bad the crash is and what actions to take, i.e. which airbags to deploy.

Most adults, if given a digital stopwatch can achieve a reaction time of around 120 milliseconds, or 0.12 of a second, while the human eye takes 100 milliseconds (0.1 sec) to blink. But in an accident, the Ford Falcon's central computer will detect the impact, assess its severity and deploy the appropriate restraints, all within the space of 30 milliseconds (0.03 sec) - one-third of the blink of an eye."

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Video: Building A Very Large Motorbike

Thanks Fish

If Snowmen Could Drive...

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Video: Photographer Gets Too Close To Rally Car

According to English Russia (view video), the woman who got hit suffered a broken leg but is ok.

Video: Crossing A Road In India

Students Hang Beetle Car From Bridge

Five engineering students have been arrested after they dangled the shell of a Volkswagen Beetle from a bridge linking Vancouver and North Vancouver.

Students of the University of British Columbia's engineering school have a long tradition of staging an annual prank, hanging the Volkswagen shell in various locations around Greater Vancouver.

This is the first time that anyone has been caught in connection with the prank. Link

Motorist Escapes Cliff Plunge

A motorist had a miraculous escape when his van was left hanging off a cliff edge after it careered off a mountain road.

Daniel Lyons, 34, was left hanging in mid-air after his vehicle plunged down the rock face in Colorado and dangled on a precipice 170 ft from the ground.

Rescuers managed to manoeuvre him from the van and up the cliff face before he was airlifted to hospital where he received treatment for minor injuries. [via]

Warning: Zombies Ahead

A road sign in Austin, Texas have altered to warn drivers of zombies up ahead. It is thought that the sign was changed in-situ as many aren't locked and the default password isn't changed. I wonder if anyone took the sign seriously. Link [Thanks Fish]

Photos of Unsold Cars

Business isn't great a the moment for car manufacturers but the thousands of unsold cars make for some great photography.

Video: Flat Bed Truck Drives Through River

That water must be freezing!

Video: AA Man Tries To Tow BMW Over Hydraulic Bollards

A video has been doing the rounds on the web showing an AA recovery van towing a BMW out of a car park in Heathrow Airport. The car park was fitted with automatic bollards and either AA driver thought he could get through in time or it didn't occur to him that you can't drive two vehicles through.

The woman in the BMW was an employee of British Airways and had to climb out of the vehicle that had got stuck at 45-degrees. [via]

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Video: Double Decker Smart Car

If you are wondering just how safe such a small car is, here's a video of one being driven into a concrete wall at 70mph.

Video: Saudi Car Climber

Haven't Saudi blokes got anything better to do than drift and climb over their cars?

Car vs ?

According to the comments on EnglishRussia the piece of metal wedged in the car is a "cargo compartment door from an “Ikarus” bus". More photos here.

Video: High Exhaust Pipes

Of all the car crazes, this ranks up there as being the one of the worst. [via]

Video: Ken Block Shows Off His Driving Skills

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Video: Chinese Police Chase

I can't work out whether the police car is trying to overtake the truck or trying to pull it over. It's the latter, are all police chases in China this boring?

Video: Drivers Try To Get Up Icy Hill

A video of an icy street in Portland, Oregon.

Video: How Not To Transport A Patient

I'm presuming that this is not the normal way to transport patients in El Salvador. [via]

Hot Cars Don't Need Hot Girls

Oh yes they do! [via]

Video: 'Endless' Queue of Car Transporters

Someone in Moscow has ordered a hell of a lot of cars.

Which Came First?

Which came first - the road or the office block?

Video: Peugeot Car Roof

It's like a work of art.

Video: Photographer Almost Gets Hit By Rally Car

I don't think he realises just how close he was.

Video: Man Changes Tyre Whilst Doing Donuts