Category Archives: Videos
- January 26, 2011
- Video: The definition of catastrophic failure
As tenants of the information superhighway’s underpass, we feast on a daily ration of bizarre automotive videos.
That diet has put us in contact with some of the most heinous clips of mechanical destruction ever seen by human eyes. But today, we bring you something that completely redefines the notion of catastrophic [...]
- January 20, 2011
- BMW gets Nokia C7 remote control, James Bond can eat his heart out (video)– also posted in BMW
At CES and the NAIAS in Detroit this year we saw ever more powerful smartphone integration, but nothing like this.
Nokia Asia teamed up with two Chinese coders, An Jiaxuan and an unnamed friend, to whip up a C7 app that controls a BMW 1 Series.
They said it took them only 20 [...]
- January 18, 2011
- Insane Flash Flood – How a parking lot goes bye bye– also posted in General
Insane Video Of A Flash Flood Washing Away An Entire Parking Lot Of Cars.
While American media is consumed with the shootings in Arizona, South Eastern Australia is battling catastrophic floods.
In this video a flash flood in Toowoomba, a city 79 miles west of Brisbane, washes away a parking lot of cars in a matter of [...]
- July 12, 2010
- Chevy Camaro vs Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG– also posted in Camaro, Mercedes
Conducting utterly inappropriate comparison tests is completely par for the course at Top Gear. After all, these were the guys that pitted a Ford Fiesta against a Chevrolet Corvette and a Jaguar XK120 against a Vincent Black Shadow and a train.
In this week’s latest episode Richard Hammond samples the new Chevrolet Camaro SS with its [...]
- June 10, 2010
- 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee TV Campain– also posted in Jeep
The all-new 2011 Jeep® Grand Cherokee is a symbol of the new Chrysler Group and the first all-new vehicle to come during the alliance with Fiat SpA.
The first advertising spot for the Jeep Grand Cherokee, scheduled to air Friday, June 11, takes viewers through a time when America was known for craftsmanship, quality and personal [...]
- May 27, 2010
- BMW turns Singapore buildings into amazing 3D Joy– also posted in BMW
BMW advertising gurus have a big job ahead of them when it comes to supplementing their longstanding “Ultimate Driving Machine” slogan with the company’s new “Joy” campaign.
Bimmer fanboys had lived and died by the company’s proclamation of superiority for years, so it’s going to take some coaxing to get BMW [...]
- March 30, 2010
- Video: Take a walk down Nissan Z-car memory lane, look into the future– also posted in Nissan
A while back we showed you the 40th Anniversary Nissan 370Z. The special package for the 370Z adds a healthy dose of show and a wee dash of go to the already heady mix of Z-car sportiness.
It’s hard to believe we’ve had 40 years of Z-cars – the car that became [...]
- March 15, 2010
- Zero wheels, all awesome – Homebuilt Kiwi ‘hovercraft’
Rudy Heeman, an inventor in New Zealand, has created a flying hovercraft. We’ll admit right now that it has little nothing to do with cars, but it is ridiculously cool.
Heeman wants to make and sell them for only $13,000. Maybe it’s time for us to just sell the car and move someplace [...]
- March 13, 2010
- Dacia Duster looks good in motion– also posted in Dacia
By and large, the Geneva Motor Show isn’t like U.S. auto shows in that grandiose press conferences just don’t exist like they do here.
Or, at least, like they used to here. Most vehicles just show up on the show floor and we snap photos at a fevered pace in an effort to [...]
- February 14, 2010
- Brand New Hummer H2 Transformed Into Horse Cart– also posted in Hummer
New York-based artist Jeremy Dean turned a $15,000 Hummer H2 into a horse cart as a throwback to “Hoover carts” — old cars reclaimed as horse carts during the Great Depression.
According to Dean, “Unless we come up with alternative fuel sources and rethink our reliance on a hyperinflated consumer based economy, we may be left [...]
