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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

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A destroyed Jeep Wrangler Rubicon has been snapped on the side of a road in New South Wales, Australia in what makes for a very bizarre scene. The story behind this Wrangler remains a mystery but it has clearly suffered such extensive damage that it will probably never be driven again. For starters, both of

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

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

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

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

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

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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A British farmer used his tractor to flip a car blocking his driveway into the main road running past the property and landed himself in court as a result. But Robert Hooper, 57, beat charges of dangerous driving and criminal damage after telling the jury that “an Englishman’s home is his castle, and my castle

We’ve always been big fans of the C7-generation Chevrolet Corvette and while it does not have the same desirable mid-engined layout as the new car, it remains an excellent sports car and, at the time of its launch, was one of America’s finest performance cars. Unfortunately, this example has been massacred. The following image has

Spring is right around the corner, but winter still has its icy grip on parts of the United States. That’s particularly true in the North, but some drivers still travel too fast for conditions. That appears to be the case here as a Vermont State trooper stopped in Dummerston on February 19th to assist the

A Ford Bronco driver ended up in a police cell after horsing around in a MLB baseball park and tearing the ground up with his SUV. While that might sound like the kind activity that would happen at 3 am on a Saturday night after a frat party, this incident at San Diego’s Petco Park

A bizarre survival story has emerged in Kent, Washington as police have found a disabled woman who was trapped in a vehicle for nine days. According to the Kent Police Department, the woman was reported missing by her sister on February 14 after no one had seen her for several days. This kicked off an

While the internet likes to make jokes about Ford Mustang drivers routinely crashing while leaving car events, the truth is that owners of all kinds of cars do the same thing. Case in point, the driver of this Nissan 350Z. This clip appears to have been filmed somewhere in the U.S. and judging by the

There is only one smart place to drag race and that is at a dedicated drag strip. Doing so in public areas is dumb and this video shows exactly why. This clip was recently shared to Reddit and shows a Chrysler 300C drag racing an older muscle car. However, rather than heating to a drag

We’ve all seen cars with traffic tickets but there’s a special sort of cringe that happens when we spot a boot on a car. Whoever put it there had to do a lot more than just slip a sheet of paper under your windshield wiper. We’ve found a video that shows one group of folks

San Francisco has been noteworthy lately for a wave of car break-ins and all-out car thefts but one thief got a lot more than they expected when they tried to snatch a Honda CR-V. A good Samaritan was told of the crime and decided to hop into their Tesla and chase the suspect down themselves.

It’s not unusual to see parking spaces in major cities sell for big numbers, but one  in Boston is raising eyebrows as its owner reportedly turned down an offer for $750,000 (£559,211 / €665,715). The eye-popping figure comes from The Wall Street Journal, which noted a couple are selling their 4,000 square foot (371.6 square

NFTs (non-fungible tokens) continue to be all the rage at the moment and one artist has taken the craze to new extremes by blowing up a Lamborghini Huracan to create 999 individual NFTs. The artist in question is known as ‘Shl0ms’ and has released a video of the Italian supercar being destroyed by explosives. A

Richmond police say they were able to stop a planned “takeover” of the city as it was happening. The events started at 9 PM on February 19 at various locations around the city. The event, which according to Instagram posts was hosted by @project.RVA.takeover, was attended by approximately 300 drivers intending to engage in illegal

Kellie Rockwell, a driver caught in a snow squall that hit the Redford, Michigan, area on Sunday, February 13, reports that she is being charged more than $9,000 by a tow company after pulling her from the scene of a massive pileup. Rockwell was heading east on I-696 when she was caught in a 50

If you’ve ever had nightmares about a drawbridge opening while you were on it, you might want to look away as video has emerged of a scary incident that took place on the Ocean Avenue Bridge in Lantana, Florida last October. Obtained by WPTV, the clip shows a bicyclist and Honda Accord traveling across the

We’ve published many stories about people with powerful cars underestimating that power, overestimating their skills, and crashing their cars. Sometimes, though, the supercar’s owner truly isn’t at fault, as was the case in this accident in which the high-performance vehicles really weren’t doing much of anything. The accident scene, sadly, was the owner’s Beverly Hills

Dealers love free advertising, so it’s common to see vehicles plastered with tacky stickers or dealership-branded license plate surrounds. However, Ohio’s Performance Lexus is apparently taking things to an even more appalling level by replacing the standard startup screen with an ugly ad. As you can see in this picture posted to Reddit, the startup

Footage from Hungary has landed online showing a large fire in the aftermath of a collision between a Kia EV6 and what appears to be a concrete barrier. The circumstances of the incident remain a matter of some mystery. What caused the collision is unclear at this juncture, but the EV6, a new battery-electric vehicle