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More than 230 classic motorcycles and a handful of classic cars have been destroyed in a fire at Austria’s Top Mountain Motorcycle Museum on the morning of January 18. Firefighters arrived on the scene at 4:00 am local time and the one person present in the building managed to escape safely, according to a Wiener

Around 6 PM Friday night, a car traveling down Interstate 93 southbound near the Zakim Bridge in Boston went airborne, landing on the ramp that connects Route 1 traffic from the Tobin Bridge to Interstate 93. According to Massachusetts State Police, the car, which appears to be a Toyota 86, (or a Scion FR-S) struck

The Pothole Pro is set to be the latest thing in infrastructure repair. The new tractor from JCB can, according to the manufacturer, repair a pothole in as little as eight minutes. That speed is possible thanks to a three-in-one solution that allows the Pothole Pro to cut, crop, and clean potholes. That means there

Following the launch of the new Subaru BRZ, the world is waiting for the second-generation Toyota 86. Nevertheless, the outgoing model is still popular among enthusiasts and is extremely popular to modify. Evidently, the owner of this Scion FR-S (a rebadged 86) thought they’d take some inspiration from the Lexus LFA when transforming the rear

Manny Khoshbin started out by working at K-Mart and now he’s a real estate mogul idly pondering if he should tear down a wall of TVs to make space for his exquisite car collection. To say that he’s made it is definitely an understatement. The garage is full of McLarens, Bugattis, Paganis and other supercars,

Blaze makes electric scooters and has gotten into a bit of a habit of producing things that look like classic cars. With the next cruiser EV, they have a little electric WWII Jeep. And with the EV Classic, they created a little classic race car. Officially a mini car, it’s big enough to get an

Sure, leave your 789 HP supercar in the hands of a stranger – what’s the worst thing that can happen? We should let Genoa FC goalkeeper Federico Marchetti answer that question, whose garage is now short a $335,000 Ferrari 812 Superfast. The Italian soccer player had left his car to be washed and expected it

Three years ago, Datong Yang and Guifang Huo purchased a brand new Mercedes-Benz S-Class for $160,000. What the couple didn’t expect for a car of that price, or any car for that matter, was for the steering wheel to seize up on multiple occasions before the vehicle was even a year old. As reported by the

A Ram 1500 pickup truck was photographed at a Tesla charging station with a good part of the charging cable’s plug placed inside its tailpipe. For the uninitiated, that’s something EV owners call “ICE-ing”, which is the practice of someone with an internal combustion engine (ICE) blocking -in various ways- a charging station. The image,

What’s that saying, “there’s no such thing as a coincidence?” Well, here’s Lamborghini of Newport Beach stating that they now accept cryptocurrencies as payment, during the most massive bull run in Bitcoin history no less. Although, you will have to call them and see which coins are accepted and which are not – Bitcoin is

Maybe it’s a peculiarity of my age and childhood that the ban of three-wheel ATVs (or ATCs, as Honda referred to them) held a sort of legendary but mysterious place in my imagination. That’s why it’s so gratifying to see the story laid out in this beautiful video from FortNine. As a result of growing

Just because you’ve seen your favorite Hollywood actor drifting around corners and performing picture-perfect stunts, that doesn’t mean you have the necessary skills to do the same, as this driver recently discovered. The clip was recently posted to YouTube and has already attracted quite a lot of attention on Reddit. It was filmed on December

A 2020 Chrysler 300 for sale at Jacksonville Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Westside, in Florida appears to have mismatched exterior trim. The vehicle is an Amethyst Chrysler 300 Touring with the Chrome Appearance Package, a $1,500 option according to Chrysler‘s build and price tool. The trouble is, though, that the option appears not to have

Feeling nostalgic for a good old-fashioned 2000s car magazine? A redditor with the username EYui clearly knows a little something about that era and put together a digital magazine using Forza Horizon 4 screen grabs. The text comes from various British publications, and all the authors have been credited. You can browse through the magazine

Porch pirates are the bane our ecommerce existence, but one certainly had a bad day and it was all caught on video. Posted on Reddit, the clip begins with someone catching a would-be thief at their front door. The man quickly runs to his car, but is so spooked he takes the long way around.

Automakers require a steady stream of content for their social media channels and sometimes it’s not exactly well thought-out. BMW USA appears to have joined that club as the company reportedly posted this video on Instagram, before deleting it. As you can see, it features an M2 racing around a track as its odometer turns

The 80 Series Toyota Land Cruiser was widely regarded as one hell of an off-roader. A Japanese company by the name of Flex Dream decided that it would be more desirable with a new face. Enter the “Wonder” Land Cruiser, an 80 Series with the face of a 60 Series. The Wonder is just one

A 38-year-old former Mercedes employee went on a bit of a rampage recently, when he trashed more than 50 vans at the company’s Vitoria, Spain assembly plant. To accomplish this much destruction, he stole a backhoe, normally used for roadworks, and drove 21 km (13 miles) to the factory in the capital of the country’s

The Corvette C7 Z06 is a very good sports car, but someone obviously thought that a number of modifications would improve its looks. Mission accomplished? We wouldn’t say so. The car’s exterior is painted in a shade of baby blue which on its own isn’t particularly nice. Obviously, the car’s owner wasn’t satisfied with simply

Shocking footage has surfaced online showing the moment a massive semi-truck side-swiped a Tesla Model 3 in the U.S. last year. This video was recently posted to the Wham Baam Teslacam channel on YouTube and reveals that the incident occurred on a tollway in Colorado. While the truck driver was to blame for the crash,

I hope you don’t believe in omens, because LEGO releasing Grave Digger on the very first day of 2021. It will be joined by its Monster Jam compatriot, Max-D in a separate kit on the same day. The kits, remarkably, only cost $20-a-piece. LEGO is being doubly budget-friendly because the sets come with instructions on

It seems that nowadays people will do just about anything to own something with a premium badge, including buying one using fraudulent details. That’s what an unnamed woman did in the UK, purchasing a black Range Rover Sport from a dealer in Hampshire, using someone else’s personal information. The victim only found out about it

On December 20th, a couple’s Audi R8 that they had just bought three months ago was stolen from outside their house in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Their dashcam captured the entirety of the thief’s joyride on video breaking all sorts of laws in the process. In the video, the thief is shown ditching his

Forced induction, whether it be a turbocharger or a supercharger, comes in handy in increasing an engine’s output. However, we doubt you’d ever think of feeding a turbocharger anything other than air, preferably cool. Unless you’re Cleetus McFarland, of course. Eager to see how a turbocharger’s impeller/turbine wheel goes at not making boost but instead

BMW will welcome in the New Year with a special animation that can be displayed on the infotainment screen of various models. The New Year Festive Animation includes a festive-themed backing track and complex animations that are shown on the screen. In addition, a vehicle’s ambient lighting system will be triggered and produce a light

Sometimes the internet provides you with a post so good that a frisson of joy can wash over you. That monkey smelling his finger, that panda scared by its cub sneezing, this Oldsmobile Quad 4 Aerotech go kart. And unlike those stupid international laws preventing me from owning that panda, I could theoretically own this

Until now, Santa Claus used reindeer to pull his sleigh around the world, but for 2020, his garage has been updated with this: the Lexus HX Sleigh Concept. To create the HX Sleigh Concept, Lexus designers have taken inspiration from current modes while also making sure the sleigh suits the needs of Santa and has

A Ford Fiesta has been caught on camera rear-ending a Lamborghini Aventador SV in the UK and immediately fleeing the scene of the accident. Footage posted to social media shows a bright blue Aventador SV traveling in the left lane with their brakes on and left turn signal flashing. As the driver slows down to

As the proud somewhat abashed owner of a Hurst cue ball shift knob, I fully appreciate and understand the impulse that could lead you to buy Custom Cre8ions’s fake velocity stacks. Even I, though, would blanche at the price tag. The engine cover has been designed to look like the velocity stacks that topped the

Drifting is certainly enjoyable, but it should only be done in controlled areas; public roads are not the place to do it as many things can go wrong. Case at hand, this Nissan driver. We recently found this video on Reddit and while it’s unclear exactly where it was filmed, it shows just how quickly