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Fantastic photos from a 1970s-80s SoCal custom van club
The great SoCal culture maven Mister Jalopy turned me on to a stunning new Instagram account documenting the history of Channel Island Vans, "a former Golden age 2% SoCal Van club 70's to 80's." And if...
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Why self-driving cars look like "toasters"?
Why do self-driving cars tend to look, well, like the Zoox you see in this post? They're optimizing for storage area and simplicity, obviously, but there is also psychology at work. Still, cubes have...
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PAL-V commercially available flying car
This is more of a drivable helicopter than what most people imagine as a "flying car," but it's still pretty neat! Via Seeker: Starting with the undercarriage, which PAL-V credits as their main...
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This is why yellow school buses have those black stripes
Veteran school bus driver and video creator Clawboss explains the ominous but reassuring reason that yellow school buses have those black stripes on the sides.
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$1700 mini electric Jeep knockoff reviewed
Alibaba is full of wonders, not least this $1350 ($1700 after shipping and customs) 1200W electric "Jeep" from Yongquin Liqian, which makes all sorts of similar vehicles. Micah Toll found someone who...
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Check out this ridiculous and fantastic Honda Civic powered by a tandem bicycle
These ingenious individuals outfitted an old Honda Civic with a tandem bicycle so that the pedaling powers the vehicle. Video below. The fun they're having is infectious. Know what I mean?
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Documetary about the Antarctic Snow Cruiser
If you're a fan of Kharkovchanka, the giant snow cruisers made by the Soviet Union, then you'll enjoy this mini-documentary about an American counterpart, the Antarctic Snow Cruiser. It was seventeen...
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Men happily take vehicle with "FREE CAR" sign only to later find something...
Two men in Byram, Mississippi spotted a vehicle on the side of the road with a "FREE CAR" sign on it and the key inside. They couldn't believe their luck and drove the car about 30 miles to a...
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Watch vehicle width restrictors on road cause crash after crash because...
The town of Watford, England installed width restrictor poles to prevent wide trucks from traveling in a particular lane. Unfortunately, the lane is quite narrow and, well, people tend to...
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This weird, old-timey, electric bike-car from Alibaba sells for $2,000
This old timey-looking electric Surrey bike is available from Alibaba for around $2,000. It holds four adult passengers plus features two child seats in front which seems… problematic. From Electrek:...
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This magnificent 1970s custom sex machine van just sold for $40,000
This incredible 1977 Dodge Tradesman B200 custom shaggin' wagon just sold for $40,000. From Bring A Trailer: The interior features swiveling captain's chairs upholstered in beige vinyl with brown...
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Watch this driver attempt a u-turn on a single lane road at the edge of a cliff
It's all about patience and… front wheel drive.
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DeLorean teases new electric car
DeLorean Motor Company teased a new electric car that the company will seemingly reveal later this year. The video below was also posted the YouTube channel of Italdesign, the design firm co-founded by...
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Cargo ship carrying $400 million in Porsches, Lambos, and Bentleys is burning...
The Felicity Ace, a cargo ship containing 4,000 Porsches, Bentleys, Lamborhinis, and other luxury cars—valued at $400 million—is ablaze in the North Atlantic. It's been burning since Wednesday....
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Want some roadkill to cook? There's an app for that.
The State of Wyoming has created an app that enables citizens to lay claim to roadkill that they'd like to cook as a meal. Built into the latest Wyoming 511 app, the new feature was timed with a new...
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Space Camper for Tesla Cybertruck seems perfect for Burning Man luxurists
Space Camper is a new company rolling out a camper that mounts on the forthcoming Tesla Cybertruck. I like the way the Cybertruck looks much more with this addition. It feels like a 1960s space age...
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New York drivers busted for badly-drawn fake inspection stickers cars
New York police have busted multiple drivers in recent months driving around with rather poorly-rendered fake inspection stickers on their cars. The specimen above was apparently drawn on a piece of a...
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Here's why your car's speedometer goes to 160 mph even though that will never...
In the US, almost all automobile speedometers go up to 160 mph even though very few cars can go that fast, not to mention it's almost twice the highest posted speed limit in the country. So why the 160...
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Can you drive a car while facing backwards?
Like YouTuber Tom Scott, watching Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons as a kid, even as a kid, I remember thinking driving backwards in a vehicle while looking into a TV screen seemed like a bad idea....
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Unboxing the world's cheapest pickup truck, just $2,000 on Alibaba
Supercar Blondie usually reviews insanely expensive automobiles. But in this video, the motorheads unbox what's likely the world's cheapest pickup truck, and it's electric! The Chang Li Explorer sells...
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New York using roadside sound meters to fine drivers of obnoxiously loud...
Red light cameras are common but now in New York City, traffic cameras are also outfitted with sound meters to identify obnoxiously loud vehicles so the drivers can be ticketed. So far, a pilot program...
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Driver run over by her own car, given ticket
In Hackettstown, New Jersey, a 61-year-old woman was struck by a car on Monday. When police arrived, they determined that the victim was also the driver of the vehicle that ran her over. According to...
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Dumb motorcyclist does burnout at stoplight only to get a flat tire (video)
Below, a motorcyclist at a stoplight does a loud and annoying burnout. He must really have a huge penis! Moments later though, he suffers a flat tire and all is well in the world again. [OC] Karma is...
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Driving instructor crashes car into the school's building resulting in...
This image looks fake but unfortunately, it is not. A driving instructor in Lakewood, Colorado drove their vehicle right into the driving school building on Tuesday. "Thankfully, there was only one...
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World's lowest low-rider car looks like half of it is underground (video)
The gearhead hackers of Italy's Carmagheddon collective sliced off the entire bottom of a Fiat Panda and then jammed the mechanical bits and wheels into the cockpit… along with the driver. Videos...
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Deer makes incredible leap into truck just as the vehicle's buyer pulls up...
Oh deer! (Sorry.) Jay Vaughan was waiting for a potential buyer of his 2007 Chevy Silverado to arrive at his Mays Valley, New Jersey home. Just as the buyer pulled-up, a deer completed an impressive...
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Cybertruck to be officially delivered today
After years of prototypes, troubles, promises and blown dates built around what amounts to a bored adolescent's sketch of a totally cool low poly technical, the Cybertruck is to be officially unveiled...
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Fake toll plaza operates for over a year, scamming motorists out of millions
Police in Gujarat, India busted five people who operated a fake toll plaza on bypass roads. Incredibly, the scam has been operating for 18 months. Smartly, the crooks charged less in tolls than the...
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Watch double-decker school bus spin around and ricochet down an icy road (video)
In Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, a double-decker school bus with no passengers aboard lost control on an icy road, spun around, and ricocheted between parked cars. Video below. According to Edinburgh...
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Musical car horns banned to stop people from dancing
Hun Manet, prime minister of Cambodia, has put the kibosh on musical horns on cars and buses. Apparently, people are stopping to dance and that's, um, bad. According to Hun Manet, social media posts...
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