Guy Faces Jail Time for Building His Own Ferrari F430 Out of a Toyota
A 26-year-old man was recently charged with forgery and breach of trademarks after it was discovered that his red Ferrari F430 was actually a modified Toyota MR Coupé. Italy’s Guardia di Finanza made the unusual seizure during a routine check in the town of Asti, Italy. Although the red Ferrari featured all the iconic elements […]
Man Drives in Reverse Over 16 Kilometers in Under 30 Minutes, Sets World Record
A 35-year-old man from India’s Tamil Nadu state recently set a new world record for the longest distance driven in reverse in under 30 minutes – 16 kilometers and 140 meters. During an event that took place last week at Edappadi Bypass in Tamil Nadu, Chandramouli, a passionate motorist from Salem district, managed to set […]
You Can Now Buy Your Own Electric Fire Truck for Just $2,600
At only $2,600, the Robeta electric fire truck may just be the world’s most affordable fire truck. Not to mention you can buy it on Alibaba! Fully decked-out fire trucks usually cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but municipalities, businesses, or even individuals looking to protect themselves against fire on the cheap now have a […]
Drunk Man Tramples Four Luxury Cars, Now Owes $150,000 in Repairs
A 24-year-old man from Chengdu, China has to pay at least $150,000 in repair costs after trampling and vandalizing four luxury vehicles in a hotel parking lot while drunk. The incident occurred on the evening of May 21, when a clearly inebriated man was filmed kicking and trampling on a number of luxury vehicles despite […]
World’s Largest Hummer Makes the Regular One Look Like a Toy Car
As the name suggests, the Hummer H1 X3 is three times the size of a standard Hummer H1, making it the largest Hummer in the world, by far. The Hummer H1 is one of the largest street-legal SUVs ever made, but it literally looks like a toy car next to the behemoth that is the […]
Introducing the Bus-Train, the World’s First Dual-Mode Vehicle
Japan recently unveiled the world’s first Dual-Mode Vehicle (DMV), a contraption that runs both on roads, like a bus, and on rails, like a train. The unique bus-train hybrid was unveiled last month, in the town of Kaiyo, Japan’s Tokushima Prefecture. The mini-bus-like contraption didn’t win anyone over with its looks, but it definitely made […]
The Pink Panthers – A Unique Piece of British Military History
Pink hardly seems like an appropriate color for combat military vehicles, but there was a time when the British military had a fleet of pink Land Rovers that affectionately became known as the “Pink Panthers”. Khaki and beige are the two most common colors used on military vehicles, but when it comes to desert camouflage, […]
Bartek Ostalowski – The World’s Only Armless Professional Sports Driver
Despite losing both arms in a tragic accident, a motorsports enthusiast has managed to pursue his passion by using his feet to drive cars and even competing against able-bodied drivers in drifting competitions. Bartek Ostalowski lost both his arms in a motorcycle accident in 2006, but that wasn’t enough to kill his dream of one […]
This Carpet-Covered Lada Is the Most Soviet-Era Car Ever Made
There are many Soviet-era remnants scattered all over the Russian Federation, but few as blatant as this old Zighuli car covered in Persian-style rugs that recently went viral on social media. The Zhiguli VAZ was a popular car model produced in Soviet Russia and exported all over the world. Outside of the Soviet Union, it […]
Student Invents Motorcycle That Runs on Swamp Gas
Gijs Schalkx, a Dutch inventor and engineering student, modified his motorcycle to run on methane harvested from roadside bogs and ponds. Aptly named Sloot Motor (sloot means ‘ditch’ in Dutch), Gijs Schalkx’s ingenious vehicle features a modified Honda GX160 motorcycle engine, with a hole into the airbox, through which it receives the methane. The bright […]
This 48 Cylinder Motorcycle Is One of the Craziest Things You’ll Ever See
Known as the Whitelock Tinker Toy, this insane 48-cylinder motorcycle holds the record for the functional vehicle with the most number of cylinders. English motorcycle enthusiast Simon Whitelock is the “madman” responsible for the existence of this outrageous contraption. It is based on the Kawasaki 250 S1, a relatively small bike equipped with a 3-cylinder […]
Big Wind – Probably the Most Powerful Firetruck Ever Built
What to you get when you combine an old Soviet tank with two Soviet jet engines and a lot of water? The answer is Big Wind, a fire truck capable of stopping oil well fires all by itself. In February of 1991, near the end of the Gulf War, the retreating Iraqi army set over […]
Man Uses Lamborghini Exhaust to Cook World’s Most Expensive Skewered Meat
A young Lamborghini owner in China recently got his five minutes of online fame by trying to barbecue some skewered pork with the car’s fiery exhaust and incurring about $80,000 in repair costs. A few days ago a group of men gathered around an orange Lamborghini sports car in an underground garage in Changsha, Hunan […]
Goodyear’s Long-Forgotten Illuminated Tires
American tire manufacturer Goodyear once created tired illuminated car tires that glowed from the inside thanks to multiple lightbulbs. In the early 1960s, Goodyear employees William Larson and Anthony Finelli worked together to create the world’s first neothane automobile tires. Neothane was just a fancier name for urethane, the chemical compound invented three decades earlier […]
Unemployed Man Fasts for 33 Days in Hopes of Winning a Lamborghini
A deeply religious man who became convinced that God would grant him a Lamborghini sports car if he fasted for 40 consecutive days and nights almost died after shunning food for a whopping 33 days. Mark Muradzira, a Youth Leader of the Risen Saints Church in Bindura, Zimbabwe, recently decided to put God’s generosity to […]