Carrying a passenger on a scooter reduces performance, makes cornering tricky and looks ridiculous. Leave it to the Japanese to turn it into a competitive sport.

This event is called the Osu Rider’s Cup and it appears to take place several times a year on a go-kart track. Don’t be fooled by the relatively slow speeds, [...]

Omar Ramos-Lopez was fired from his job at a Texas car dealership, so he got even. All of the company’s cars was equipped with an ignition interrupter controlled over the internet, so he went online and remotely disabled them.
The Texas Auto Center, where Omar had been employed, installs a system in vehicles it sells to [...]

Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton officially unveiled the new McLaren MP4-12C earlier today at the ribbon-cutting of McLaren’s new production center.
In 14 months, they’ll start production of 1200 units of the MP4-12C. We were also told this morning by sources at McLaren they plan on producing a range of rear-engined two-seater sports cars. They also [...]

At a BMW press conference, Dr. Norbert Reithofer has dropped a dab-of-oppo-less bomb of an unorthodox Bavarian future. Mein Gott!
Buried in a longer speech about BMW’s plans for the next decade, almost as an afterthough following his update on Mini’s successes, this is the full text of Reithofer’s vision:

In the future, we will generate growth [...]

Thanks to a craptastically-configured auction, a member of the ChallengerTalk forums snagged a steal-of-a-deal on a usually-goes-for-$45K Dodge Challenger SRT8 for just $29,100. Now the Signal Hill, CA car dealer’s trying to back out of the deal.
It feels to us like car dealers just don’t get the internet in general and the rules of eBay [...]

So, uh, this is a little… yeah, we can’t make any jokes. Some of them are too easy, some are too stupid, and some are just too mean. But we have five words for you: You must watch this. Now.

A brief sampling of items found in the above video:

Enthusiasm
Vibrating senior citizens
Magic clothes
A metallic-green Chevrolet Cavalier [...]

Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes, when you’re doing fifteen different things at once and talking on the phone and trying to make sure you’re doing enough work to keep your job afloat, you miss things. Information slips through the cracks. Thankfully, because this is the Internet, there are people ?? oh holy mouse with flowers, are [...]

Here’s a fascinating old video called “Give Yourself the Green Light.” Put together by GM’s PR wing in 1954, it advocates public spending on bigger and better roads. Certainly self-serving, but also interesting. Careful, it’s 22 minutes long.

Sure, GM had had interest in getting better and faster roads under the tires of its products, but [...]

Is Junior hard on your case for a fresh new ride to take to elementary and impress the babes? This one-of-a-kind, Honda-powered, scale model Ferrari F40 might just fit the bill for only $25,000.

According to the listing, this piece of shrunken epic Ferrari-ness was commissioned for the opening of a Russian Ferrari dealership. Built in [...]

It’s St. Patrick’s Day and we’ve been looking for fun content we can share with you related both to cars and our favorite March 17th celebratory activity. DeLoreans? Meh. Irish Car Bombs? Blarney-riffic!
If you’re like us, then you’ve probably had an Irish Car Bomb before. We were pretty confident that we could make some that [...]

English footballer and shagger of teammate’s girlfriends, John Terry, is in more trouble after injuring a security guard in a car accident at the Chelsea stadium. Terry claims he was unaware of the incident, driving home without stopping.
A Chelsea spokesperson explained the incident, “When driving out of the stadium at approximately 1-2 mph in a [...]

This may not be a real Ferrari, but no matter ?? it’s still one of the most gorgeous things we’ve ever seen. Pontoon-fendered 250 Testarossa body, you had us at hello.
Testarossa, the old man said, and he was not speaking of the woman’s hair. She flew through the town center, jumped into the passenger seat, [...]

On January 16, 1920, America became a dry country. The 18th Amendment, a.k.a. the National Prohibition Act, a.k.a. the Volstead Act, made it illegal to produce or distribute alcohol within the United States. It was a dark and depressing time for many, and it marked the beginning of our great country’s descent into the cultural [...]

Thursday’s Bugatti vs. McLaren debate was fun, no? The McLaren handily won, garnering just over 65% of the vote. And I don’t think anyone is too shocked by that result. Given the choice between pre-meltdown Jenna Jameson and Taylor Rain, the true connoisseur chooses Miss Rain. Every time. Ahem. Today we’re presenting you the two [...]

Audi’s new Le Mans race car, the Audi R15 TDI, is here with 600 HP and a Star Destroyer-level of torque.
At last! Barely a week and a half before its first outing at Sebring next weekend, Audi has released three dozen photos of their new diesel racer, the R15. Gone is the V12 engine of [...]