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Astoundingly, a company selling exact replicas of fancy cars for cheap is a sham. Jalopnik delves deep inside the scam.

Meet Alexei Volkov, aka "The Punisher," Russia's newest folk hero with an intense case of road rage.

After Andrew Linn fell asleep at the wheel, he drove into a yard and through a chain-link fence, forcing a pole through his windshield. When medics arrived, a pole was poking out of the back of his head. [Jalopnik]

A source affiliated with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway tells us Donald Trump will not be the driver of the pace car for this month's 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500 after fans complained he was too politically-motivated. [Jalopnik]

Two armed Libyan soldiers are firing teargas on protesters in a city street. A common sight except for the vehicles they're in: U.S-built Toyota Tundra pickup trucks. How did these vehicles end up in the hands of Qaddafi's government? [Jalopnik]

A Canadian university suspended its student racecar-building team after one of the engineers in training had the audacity to pose with it while wearing a bikini. It's an independent study course in sexism, administrative idiocy and misplaced priorities. [Jalopnik]

Heavy snow melt, moist soil, and North Dakota's peculiar geography combined over the weekend to turn the roads and fields around Fargo into a seemingly giant shallow ocean. Called overland flooding, it creates bizarrely apocalyptic scenes like this. [Jalopnik]

Yesterday we showed you video of a scary car accident in which a two-by-four kicked up by a truck rockets through a car's windshield. The video was so amazing that people thought it had to be fake. It wasn't. [Jalopnik]

To raise the $15,000 needed to keep his home, Utah resident John Maxim pledged to burn his Ford Escort wagon if he got the money. He did, it burned, and now he has a criminal record. [Jalopnik]

As Japan struggles to control the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, radiation has made the work dangerous to workers for even brief periods. Imagine if a drone helicopter could precisely drop water or chemicals on the reactors. One can. [Jalopnik]

Scott Burgess resigned today as The Detroit News auto critic after his editors bowed to a request by an advertiser to water down his negative review of the Chrysler 200. This is why we can't have nice reviews anymore. [Jalopnik]

Pilots locked down their cockpit when three passengers performed a Jewish prayer in the middle of the Alaskan Airlines jet's cabin. [Jalopnik]

Meet Jessica Murray. Jessica attended Boston's Simmons College and works at Social Media Club Global, a non-profit organization for social media professionals. And she just tattooed a 10-inch Chevy logo on her back for a free ride to SXSW. [Jalopnik]

When motorsports president Max Mosley was caught in a Nazi-themed orgy by British tabloids, we assumed it was his end. Far from it. Riding high on a court victory he's pushing reforms in Europe that will restrict press freedoms. [Jalopnik]

The leader out of the gate for best commercial at Super Bowl XLV is a Volkswagen ad featuring a young Darth Vader. The most controversial? HomeAway's " Test Baby," which features a baby slamming into a glass wall as a joke.

High speed car chases are nothing new, but police chasing horse drawn wagons filled with people? Now that's a sight to behold.

Firefighters responded to a burning cab last evening on the Upper East Side, only to have it explode right in front of them. It was all captured on video by a passenger from another passing taxi.

Media mogul Barry Diller was driving his Maserati through a snowy Central Park this morning when it got stuck. Luckily Katie Couric happened by to help push it out—in the wrong direction. Rich people really don't "get" snow.

How cool could a train video possibly be? Well, judging from this mesmerizingly beautiful video, VERY cool. Watch as a long-as-hell Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train makes its way through the foothills of the Rockies—like a boss.