automobiles

This Guy Is Really Into Car Crashes

Matt Cherette · 10/25/10 01:40PM

Here's a fan-recorded video from the Last Chance Heat 2 at Ipswich World Final 2010 race, featuring several cars crashing into each other. The crashes don't make the video entertaining, though—the guy's insanely excited voiceover does (NSFW language).

This Is the Car Park of the Future, and It's Awesome

Matt Cherette · 09/28/10 04:36PM

Holy moly is this amazing: check out The Cube, a new, state-of-the-art car park in Birmingham, UK, that takes any possible human error out of the equation to ensure that your vehicle gets placed—and retrieved—with ease. Video inside.

Watch Two Monkeys Have Sex on the Hood of a Moving Car

Matt Cherette · 08/31/10 05:25PM

Here's something you don't see every day: amateur video, shot from the inside of a moving car, that shows a monkey just chillin' on the hood. But wait! Along comes another monkey—take a guess at what happens next.

Woman Drives Car 100 Feet Into School Building

Matt Cherette · 07/19/10 04:55PM

At about 9:50 this morning, a female student at a Tewksbury, MA job training school drove her Pontiac Bonneville into the building, making her way 100 feet into the structure before stopping. Inside, a local newspaper's video report.

As Hummer Goes, So Goes America

Jeff Neumann · 03/31/10 04:13AM

Great news! The ultimate penis compensation vehicle may soon be more affordable. You just need a horse first. Artist Jeremy Dean built a horse-drawn Hummer to show everyone what our miserable future could look like. [Boing Boing, via]

Chevy introduces 1930s America To Its Car's Differential

Adrian Muniz · 03/15/10 11:30AM

In 1969, Chevrolet became entangled in history's famous safety debacle with the Corvair, whose rear-suspension issues and potential to overturn made Chevy synonymous with danger. However, by the looks of this film they've had basic auto-mechanics covered from Day 1.

Custom Car Horns By JLo on Tonight's SNL

Matt Cherette · 02/28/10 01:35AM

Does your car horn lack flavor? Come on down to Car Horns and More! That was the theme of this sketch from tonight's SNL, featuring Jenny Slate and Jlo as the proprietors of some wacky bells and whistles. Video inside.

Who Killed GM?

Pareene · 06/01/09 10:29AM

General Motors is bankrupt. Whoops. It was probably going to happen no matter what, but lots of people hoped that bankruptcy would remain a threat that would encourage everyone to band together to save the company. Who is to blame for the death of the American auto industry?

'Desperate' Jay Leno Eager To Discover Scarlett Johansson's Car-Related Sexual Fantasies

Mark Graham · 08/11/08 01:20PM

Now that Jay Leno has entered the lame duck phase of his relationship with the Peacock network, it appears that he's decided to abuse his position as America's top-rated celebrity interviewer as fuel for his sexual reveries for many moons to come. While interviewing a crestfallen Scarlett Johansson on Friday night about Vicky Christina Barcelona (itself a rather sexually charged subject), noted auto enthusiast Jay figured he'd use the opportunity to engage the voluptuous starlet in some automobile-related foreplay. You see, he had done some research in advance of the chat and discovered that Scarlett told a lad mag that her number one sexual fantasy involved having sex in a car. But while Jay stopped just short of confessing that he has Crash playing on an infinite loop in his 17,000 square foot warehouse / garage, it was clear by reading his clearly flabbergasted guest's face that she's rather looking forward to sitting next to Conan O'Brien the next time she makes her way through Burbank. [The Tonight Show]

What Black Women Want: Toyota Espionage

Hamilton Nolan · 06/09/08 08:26AM

Black women these days: they're just not buying enough Toyota Camrys. The car company's ad agency rep explains the problem: "[Black women] think of it as suburban, not urban; as solid but boring. And for this woman, she doesn't see herself as boring." Ha, you go girl! Well, ladies, Toyota likes to think of all of its customers as "sisters." And it knows just how to get you elusive African-American females to buy more of their boring suburban cars—with a crazy online fashion espionage game! Coincidentally, there's a black woman in it. And a Camry!

Hipster In Purple Truck Is Headed For Your Mom's House

Hamilton Nolan · 03/19/08 05:13PM

Angel Hess, the partially homeless Williamsburg dude/ artist who lives in an old purple truck charitably called "Purple 53," otherwise known as "that raggedy purple truck in the polluted lot across from the Turkey's Nest," wants to come visit your family! "Does anyone have friends or family in Alabama or Louisiana? I'm looking for some people to visit in Alabama or Louisiana," he writes today on Williamsboard.com. Williamsboard responds: "Get a job you fucking hippie," and then it gets worse from there. Well to be fair, Angel even hit Gawker up for money once! So maybe not the most gracious houseguest for your aunt in Birmingham. Decide for yourself; here's an inside and out look at his stylistic home on wheels: