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0Video: Watch the "sheep cyclone" encircle a car 1328394780
The beige blurs in the still above are sheep, and they're apparently very excited about something in that little blue car. Supposedly, a farmer in the Caucasus was just trying to get through a lane, and this, dubbed the "sheep cyclone," is what developed. Follow the jump for the video. If you ...
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Video: Dual power windows... emphasis on "dual" 1326564480
To paraphrase the Almond Joy commercial, sometimes you feel like a tint, sometimes you don't. In states like California, having any tint on your front windows is verboten. It's only casually enforced, but it's still illegal. In that case, something like this setup might come in handy: a Russian ...
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Video: Russian tuner squeezes 1,000 horsepower into a Fiat Coupe 1319749020
You may remember a fun little hatchback called the Fiat Panda 100HP. All it took was a hundred horsepower to turn a ho-hum supermini into what European editors knew and loved as one of their favorite driving machines. That was a little overshadowed by the Fiat 500 that offers the same powertrain, ...
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Video: Red light-runner has ill-advised change of heart 1319128320
We've all done it before. The light is red, but you're turning right, so you stop and then proceed as soon as traffic clears. But then, just as you've committed, you spot a Crown Victoria, and your mind starts to race. Was there a no turn on red sign back there? Is that a cop? Oh snap, there goes ...
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Video: How to start a car with a dead battery without jumper cables 1319050680
Here's a handy trick: Say you find yourself in the middle of nowhere with a dead battery and no way to roll-start your vehicle. What do you do? If you happen to have enough rope lying around (or belts, for that matter), you can conceivably lift the drive axles, wrap the rope around a tire and ...
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Video: Crane lifting a crane will need a crane of its own 1316786460
If you've ever worked in the construction industry, you know there's a lot of experimentation and trial and error that goes into completing a job. Every site brings its own unique challenges to the table, requiring its workers to come up with ingenious solutions to problems most people simply ...
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Frankfurt: Yo-Auto concept is bizarre, has world's funkiest doors [w/video] 1315935060
Next to all the major automakers debuting vehicles at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show is a lesser-known firm from Russia that operates under the curious name of Yo-Auto (ë-Avto). The quirky Yo-Concept, unveiled today in Frankfurt, is one of four hybrid vehicles the Russian automaker is ...
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Video: FPS Russia takes an armored troop carrier through a drive thru 1314662220
Internet and YouTube phenom FPS Russia – no, he's not really Russian and yes, his accent, though amusing, is fake – tends to go a little bit overboard at times. He loves guns and blowing things up, and the bigger the boom it makes, the better. So, when it came time to take a little ...
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Report: Road Trip! Russia approves tunnel to Alaska under Bering Strait 1314399600
The Russian government has given the go-ahead on an ambitious new tunnel project that could connect Siberia with Alaska via an underground rail line. If completed, the $65 billion project will be the longest underwater tunnel in the world, besting the Chunnel between England and France by twice ...
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Russian hand-builds world's meanest SLR McLaren 1313162940
Russia is Shangri La if you're into crazy men building mean-looking one-off supercars in their garages. OK, supercar might be a bit of an exaggeration, considering this home-built Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR replica probably rides on old Lada running gear, but look at it. It looks like a ...

