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Driving on a beach is heaps of fun but a number of motorists in Queensland, Australia recently discovered that you may not do as you please. On Saturday, July 17, police received a number of complaints of hooning at Teewah beach. They discovered a makeshift drag strip that had been set up during low tide

While Porsche always manages to inject a bit of sports car DNA into every vehicle they make, some of their models offer off-road driving modes as well. The Cayenne is one example of this, as it offers a handful of off-road modes in addition to its varying levels of sporty on-road modes. However, this doesn’t

Every year, 14.5 trillion cigarette butts end up as litter around the world. The tiny pieces of trash end up all over the place but, in one case, they ended up in the hands of a four-year-old on Scheveningen Beach on the Netherlands coast. So his dad decided to do something about it. Together with

Millions of us will hail an Uber at least once this year, seduced by the convenience of its ride-hailing phone app and usually reasonably priced fares. But one unlucky British Uber customer’s ride definitely wasn’t fairly priced. They ended up being charged £332 ($455) for a 1.75-mile journey across London. In a letter to The

Driving in rainy conditions presents all kinds of risks, but one you probably haven’t considered before relates to manhole covers. While manhole covers should be secured to the road, they can sometimes get displaced by water and that’s exactly what happened in Hungary recently, badly damaging a Fiat Punto. Watch Also: Overconfident Driver Adds To

The Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is one of the fastest sedans in the world and one driver decided to put its supercharged 6.2-liter V8 engine to full use. Unfortunately for them, they decided to do this on I-75 with a Michigan State trooper parked nearby. Noting “just because it can, doesn’t mean you should,” Michigan

A security camera has captured the moment that two cars reversed into each other in Itapolis, Sao Paulo, Brazil in a scene that you wouldn’t believe was possible if it wasn’t recorded on video. The footage was filmed outside an automotive repair center and shows the driver of a white Chevrolet Onix reversing out onto

A few days ago we showed you a video from an Audi dealership in Leverkusen being filled with water during the catastrophic floods in Germany and Belgium, while yesterday, a new video was sent to us, showing a similar case in the Porsche Centre Heilbronn dealership. Unfortunately, the situation is not over yet for the two European countries, with

The driver of a sedan has been lucky to survive a truly horrifying crash. The accident happened somewhere in the U.S. on July 14 and was captured on the dashcam of a nearby motorist. The incident was akin to something you would expect to only see in a Hollywood film – provided the script stipulated

Rolling coal, the practice of flooring a specially modified diesel engine to produce an excessive amount of smoke, is considered illegal in many places. However, that didn’t stop one truck driver to do just that in front of a Tesla, blocking them on the road in the process. We’ve seen Tesla-hate similar to this before

If you were to come across this old Honda Civic at a set of traffic lights, you could be fooled into thinking you would leave it in the wake of your European hot hatch. However, chances are that this third-generation Civic from the 1980s would shock many sports car owners. Images of this Civic were

The Ram 1500 TRX is the most absurd pickup truck currently offered by any manufacturer and until the V8-powered Ford F-150 Raptor R arrives, it will hold onto that crown. Sadly, many markets have missed out on the TRX and a scale model is the closest many people will ever get to see one. This

Large sections of a Georgia freeway were shut down Thursday after a dump truck driving along the I-16 with its bed up hit an overpass, moving the bridge almost six feet off its mark. Fortunately, no one was hurt in the accident, which occurred in the middle of the night. Naturally, the bridge can no

This bizarre Fiat 500 may look like a weird project car that someone created in their garage but that couldn’t be further from the truth. This image was shared to Reddit after being snapped on the Autobahn and quickly raised a lot of questions across the forum. A little bit of research reveals that this

A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter had a close call on Thursday in Bucharest. Although the cause of the incident is still unknown, the helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in Romania’s capital city, Bucharest, shutting down nearby traffic. Videos show the helicopter participating in a formation flight that officials say was being

Like a retired quarterback wanting to relive their glory days, Fiat USA can’t seem to stop talking about the 124 Spider. In the past month alone, the company has tweeted about the roadster five times even though the model was axed in December. This is a bit strange as most automakers rarely mention discontinued models

Dashcam footage has captured the moment the driver of a Nissan Altima was rear-ended by a semi-truck in Louisville, Kentucky in late April. The video was filmed from another semi-truck and shows the trucker slowing down in the right-hand lane as a dog can be seen running across the opposite side of the street and

The Ferrari 488 Pista is one of the Italian automaker’s finest-ever supercars and while this example has been badly damaged in a crash, it seems likely that someone will repair it and return it back to its former glory. This 488 Pista is listed up for auction through Copart in New York and has an

Everyone likes a good lake outing. But what do you do if you don’t have the time or money to go on one? You can do what YouTuber RC Helistef did and recreate one with radio-controlled vehicles. The towing vehicle is an Axial Wraith, an electric rock racer with full-time 4WD and solid axles, meaning

A 2006 Ford GT that is just begging to be saved will soon be auctioned off by Copart and could prove to be one of the most affordable GTs that actually runs. The listing reveals that this GT has only ever been driven 714 miles (1,149 km) but it was unfortunately involved in an accident.

Racing up the famed Goodwood hillclimb is not without its risks and over the weekend, two rare Jaguar models crashed at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. The first incident took place during the final day of the event and involved a rare XJR-12D Group C Le Mans race car. Behind the wheel of the

Following a spike in reported thefts, police in Montreal, Canada, are inviting motorists to register their vehicle’s catalytic converter to help deter criminals. Drivers were invited to drive to one of three registration sites yesterday in the Montreal area, according to a report in the Montreal Gazette. Once there, the police gave owners an identification

Mazda has a lot of fans around the world but the owner of this house must be a rotary engine fanatic judging from the size of his Mazda RX collection sitting outside his front yard. In the short video uploaded on Reddit by BigBang_Cam, we can see several rotary-powered RX-7s and RX-8s patiently waiting to be

Although automotive keys tend to look more complicated than, say, a house key, it turns out that the concept behind their operation is pretty similar. Thanks to a specialized tool called a Lishi lock pick, car doors can be unlocked pretty easily. That’s the conclusion of an ongoing series of videos from The LockPickingLawyer, whose

Depending on where you live, you may know this trend by different names. I first heard it referred to as the Carolina Squat but, apparently, it’s also known as the Tennessee Tilt and the Cali Lean. Whatever the case, North Carolina wants to make it illegal. North Carolina house bill 692 aims to ban the

A fight broke out at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course during a Stadium Super Trucks race in support of IndyCar last weekend. The fight culminated in one driver, Bo LeMastus, throwing his steering wheel at another driver, Bill Hynes. The fight started after the race ended, as Hynes looped LeMastus’ truck. Speaking to The Checkered

A Ferrari GTC4Lusso and a Porsche 918 Spyder have been damaged in China after being hit by a BMW 3-Series in an underground parking lot. Based on local reports and some very dodgy translations, it is understood that the incident happened on July 4 when a wife and a husband got into an argument while

This is a Vixen 21 TD and it might just be the coolest RV ever designed. Listed up for sale on eBay and located in McDade, Texas, the Vixen 21 TD was designed by Bill Collins who also designed the DeLorean DMC-12. It sits significantly lower than a traditional RV and was designed to slip

The Tesla Model S may have all-wheel drive but that doesn’t mean you can drive it on sand, as the owner of this example recently discovered. This image was recently shared by The Smoking Tire’s Matt Farah and shows a silver Model S stuck in the sand while its owner was trying to find a

Automotive supergroup, Stellantis, has announced it is spending over €30 billion ($36.6 bn) between now and 2025 on its electrification program. But what we want to know is how much of that humungous pile of cash was peed up the wall on the impossibly lame eco-themed catchphrases also revealed today for each of the company’s