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VIDEO: Mind the pole, please

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/comedy/Parking_Job_At_Its_Best'; Spending all day blogging from the comfort of our mothers' basements and/or top-secret Dr. No-style lairs, we sometimes forget that there's a world out there filled with people who engage in truly questionable things. And then we get a video like this and we wonder, "Is that really what's going on outside?" We're not sure what this driver was trying to do, but when he or she decides to kill a pole, they do a commendably thorough job of it. Follow the jump for the security ... Read more →

MINI bumper sticker makes fun of Cash for Clunkers Jonathon Ramsey

You've seen the license plate surrounds that read "My other car is an Enterprise Rent-a-car." Well, in a Cash-for-Clunkers age, what if your other car is headed to the scrap heap because you wanted ...

Jeremy Clarkson upsets Scouts, Catholic Church with Skoda commentary Jonathon Ramsey

What do you get when you mix Clarkson, May, a Skoda, and the Catholic church? Controversy, of course. During a review of the Skoda Scout, May and Clarkson engaged in a bit of banter that mingled ...

VIDEO: Stig scam gets you around for free Jonathon Ramsey

Here's a fantastic challenge that the Top Gear team didn't think up: if you walked around London dressed as the Stig, how many strangers would let you drive their cars? Aussie comedy show The ...

Dealer still pitching cars from the afterlife? Jonathon Ramsey

On April 8, 50-year-old Charles P. Dimmick died doing what he loved to do: watching his favorite driver, Jeff Gordon, run in the Phoenix round of NASCAR. Dimmick was also the marketing manager at ...

VIDEO: GM re:invention commercial gets the spoof treatment 6 months ago on Autoblog

We'll start off by saying that this spoof on General Motors' Re:invention commercial is not exactly fair and not exactly accurate... but it is funny. It comes from an Onion-esque type website with a decidedly sharp take on GM's situation, with story headlines like "GM Kicks Dog, Takes Candy ...

Crazy Kiwis: Buy a new Mitsubishi Triton, get a free goat with purchase 6 months ago on Autoblog

New Zealand Mitsubishi wants you to buy a Triton ute, and to lure you into doing it they're using goats -- because really, who can resist a goat? Said Mitsu's New Zealand sales and marketing manager, Peter Wilkins, "three years of drought has severely depleted sheep and beef populations, so what ...

No Mo' Bondo: Hapless Toyota Camry gets its fill of filler 8 months ago on Autoblog

Dear readers, this is what you get when you mix some serious damage, an aversion to body shops, a lot of time, and the belief that Bondo and duct tape can fix anything. This sad-looking fifth-generation Toyota Camry was spotted in Dallas by Final Gear user Spectre, and it appears to be wearing ...

Booted Bugatti Veyron proof that nobody is safe from the recession 8 months ago on Autoblog

To their credit, the police in Slovakia evidently make no exceptions for €1.1 million supercars. There are supposedly two Bugatti Veyrons registered in the European country, and this one is said to belong to Ladislav Basternak. When Basternak;s Veyron was parked a little too long at the ...

Greenwashing? Governator looks to have gotten himself a new Dodge Challenger SRT8 8 months ago on Autoblog

It is well known that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has had a very public change of heart when it comes to seeking out a greener lifestyle. Heck, he's gone from owning the very first civilian AM General HMMWV to talking up green environmental initiatives and start-ups like Tesla. He's ...

Streaming Mad: $206 in urine-soaked coins is not acceptable payment for a speeding ticket in Washington 8 months ago on Autoblog

Michael Harold Lynch was ticketed for doing 54 mph in a 35 mph area that was also a construction zone. The fine was $206. Lynch decided to let his anger flow by placing $206 in a plastic bag, peeing in the bag and sending it in. Upon receiving Lynch's little care package, the courthouse staff gave ...

Bored auto factory worker + assembly robot = new amusement park ride 9 months ago on Autoblog

Despite being told this video was shot in a Ford factory, we're not exactly sure which company claims ownership of the reassigned assembly line robot. Whoever owns the building, they might be surprised to learn what their employees have been doing on their lunch hour. Take one giant robotic ...

VIDEO: Euro trucker sought by police after releasing drive-dancing footage 9 months ago on Autoblog

It gets lonely in a semi cab, long hours of doing little more than light bouncing and trying to stay in your lane. But on the bright side, it does provide a lot of "me time," and with a little background music and the urge to shake it, the cab could be a great place to... dance! One truck ...

Mii sought in Japanese hit-and-run 10 months ago on Autoblog

In Japan's Kanagawa prefecture, it looks like you can add 'police sketch artist' the list of occupations being killed by technology. The authorities there evidently skipped the pad and pencil and went straight to the Nintendo Wii when they had to come up with an image of the perpetrator, using the ...

Kansas fire department saves Ferrari from burning home 10 months ago on Autoblog

You're at home watching the Super Bowl and you smell smoke. Normally you'd look for the source and listen for the peal of a fire alarm... unless you're a particular homeowner in Olathe, Kansas and, even though you have a Ferrari 348 in the garage, you haven't installed any fire alarms in your house. ...

Climactic cliffhanger from The Italian Job solved with science 10 months ago on Autoblog

Spoiler Alert: If you want to be surprised by the ending of The Italian Job, stop reading now. We had a theory that humanity was officially bored when the carpet rake was invented. Once people didn't have to subdue woolly mammoths for dinner, they could focus on how to subdue the shag. That theory ...

Nigerian goat held by police, accused of armed carjacking 10 months ago on Autoblog

There aren't enough police in some areas of Nigeria, so vigilante groups have formed to take up the slack. When vigilantes in Kwara State saw two men trying to carjack a Mazda 323, they went after the baddies. One of the men escaped, but the other man, cornered... um, how do we say this... turned ...

VIDEO: Nissan GT-R vs Blendtec Total Blender... something blends 11 months ago on Autoblog

If you haven't seen any of the Will It Blend? videos, just know that it's what Monty Python would be doing if there were still a Monty Python. For those of you in the know, then you had to realize that it was only a matter of time before the Blendtec Total Blender – with a blade that ...

Teens copying enemies' license plates to get revenge via speed cameras 11 months ago on Autoblog

Teens are known for having a lot of time, some seriously outrageous ideas for filling that time, and a slightly obsessive need for revenge. Add a few residential speed cameras into that mix, and what you have is a creative perversion of the entire speed camera system. Teens in Maryland have ...

Rolls-Royce Phantom mobile phone store in India 12 months ago on Autoblog

It's called ingenuity, and it's given us such things as the cell phone and the Rolls-Royce Phantom. So why not combine the two to create a cell phone store in the back of a Rolls-Royce Phantom? That's evidently what some well-heeled entrepreneurs in India did, purchasing a Phantom instead of a ...

Car by Congress: the 2012 Pelosi GTxi SS/RT Sport Edition 12 months ago on Autoblog

Here's a little comedy for Christmas: The always-entertaining Iowahawk recently took a shot at the entire left-leaning side of Congress. Imagining the kind of car that would be crafted by a blue-state congressional committee, they've come up with the Congressional Motors Pelosi GTxi SS/RT Sport ...

10-year-old crashes van while driving drunk parents home 1 year ago on Autoblog

Reality shows and the Internet have not created a more ridiculous world, they have only promoted the outrageous things that are already going on. You're a dad in Tennessee who's had 15 brewskies and an unknown quantity of other liquor, your female company is under the influence of something and has ...

VIDEO: Truck driver does 70 MPH, in reverse, kind of... 1 year ago on Autoblog

A very short clip that says so much, there's really only one thing to add: be very, very careful out there. You never know who you're driving next to... Follow the jump to see the vid. [Source: Break via Geekologie] ...

Practical Joke of the Day: VW Touareg Cabrio 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for photo gallery var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/VW_Spain_kids_visitors_with'; December 28 is the "día de los Inocentes" in Spain, which is basically equivalent to our April Fool's Day. Bogus media stories are part of the fun, and it looks like businesses get in on the ...

Attention teen drivers: Dysfunctional driving video keeps it real 2 years ago on Autoblog

When I took driver's ed, the short movies we had to watch decades old and horribly dated. The techniques shown, which applied for bias-ply tires and rear wheel drive, didn't cross over neatly to front wheel drive cars shod with modern radials. Tipster Martijn turned us on to this amusing bit of ...

Car wins game of hide and seek with owner 3 years ago on Autoblog

Hide and seek was such a fun game as a child. Trying our darndest to keep our feet from showing from underneath the curtains, oblivious to the fact that our giggling, wiggling forms were so obviously clear to the seeker. As an adult it doesn't have the same appeal, unless you're reading about ...






Autoblog Podcast #157: Mike Levine trucks along with us.

Mike Levine from PickupTrucks.com joins Chris, Sam, and Dan this week and gets a chance to talk about cars, too! 

 
 

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