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Seldom has the phrase “check your mirrors” been more hilariously proven than on September 16, when a 31-year-old man from Chisholm, Australia, provided local police with one of its easiest busts of the year. According to Australian Capital Territory police, the incident happened at around 5:50 pm local time. The driver pulled out onto the

A report out of Lakewood, Washington, about 40 miles (64 Km) south of Seattle, says that a woman recently drove a stolen MINI Cooper Countryman into wet concrete before getting it completely stuck in the building material. She ditched the car but it’s what she took with her that’s truly unbelievable. According to police, witnesses

Most road trips seem to have one common factor: a relatively large, spacious vehicle with a good record of reliability. One man from New Jersey decided to buck that trend. He piled all he needed for a multi-month road trip into his Ferrari California T and then drove 12,843 miles including stops in Tijuana, Mexico,

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Test drives are important, but they can sometimes end in tears, as Tarek Salah found out recently while going for a ride in an early Ferrari F355 he was looking to buy. Having flown from Los Angeles, California, to Marseilles, France to test drive the car, he was understandably excited. Sadly, while sitting in the

We’ve told you about laws and lawsuits regarding the removal of emission control systems in the past. We’ve even talked about this specific truck but never did we imagine that at the end of this saga the result would be a perfectly functional truck being crushed after the owner initially intended on selling it. Months

Some people in Boisbriand, Quebec, are still, apparently, behind the times, as two recent examples of Tesla Superchargers being ICE’d demonstrate. There’s something about these examples that is particularly galling. Drive Tesla Canada recently shared photos of one Supercharger parking spot being blocked by internal combustion vehicles on two separate occasions. In one case, a

Being a car owner right now in Portland isn’t great for your blood pressure. According to data provided by the Portland Police Bureau, reported car thefts for the seven months from January to July 2022 are a staggering 6,312, almost double the figures for the same period just two years ago. Honda, Ford, and Subaru

Making a right-hand turn at an intersection isn’t something that any motorist should struggle with but for the following driver, this simple task proved to be a little too difficult. Admittedly, it’s not just a normal motorist featured in this video. Instead, it is a Ford Mustang driver and as history has taught us, some

A Tesla owner claims that control of their vehicle was handed over to a European driver after the company accidentally filled in the wrong VIN information on the continent. Reddit user Robert Quattlebaum, u/darconeous, claims in a story posted to r/teslamotors that shortly after taking delivery of a Model 3, his partner discovered that something weird

No less than 11 vehicles were damaged and destroyed by a fire in the parking lot of the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida after a tailgate party went horribly wrong. As fans got ready for the Dolphins v Patriots game, one attendee fired up a grill for a tailgate party but forgot to

Buried deep inside the owner’s manual of some cars is a line that reads “maintenance service and record retention are the owner’s responsibility.” And in the case of one 2015 Hyundai Genesis, the manufacturer really meant it. Rebecca Walker, the owner of the Genesis in question, found that out to her cost, when, in late

Police in Four Oaks, North Carolina have arrested two individuals for leading them on a chase that reached 150 mph (241 km/h). Local media reports that the 2022 Dodge Charger was stolen from the Hendrick’s Dodge dealership in Cary at approximately 11 p.m. on Sunday night. It was a high-performance Scat Pack model. The chase

Mario Zelaya, the owner of a 2013 Tesla Model S, says he was locked out of his vehicle after the battery pack died because of an alleged design flaw. Now, he says he can’t even get inside the car to access the ownership documents to sell the vehicle he has opted not to fix. Zelaya

The highway is usually a stress-free environment for truck drivers, but things can go really wrong as proven by new video footage coming from Poland. It all started when a truck driver came to a full stop in the right lane just after missing an exit, causing a terrifying accident that involved two other trucks.

The town of Schertz, Texas, suffered a pretty major inconvenience yesterday after a car hauler got beached at a railroad crossing. Unfortunately, the truck got stuck just as a train was coming, which ended up T-boning the truck’s trailer. Fortunately, no one was injured in the accident, which happened just before 2:00 p.m., according to

Regardless of economic conditions, theft seems to be a scourge that doesn’t go away. Normally though, the police come to the aid of the victims. This time, the police department itself is the victim of catalytic converter theft and it’s asking for assistance to catch the criminals. Catalytic converters can be worth more than $1,000

In order to curb the spread of the infamous “Carolina Squat”, North Carolina recently enacted a bill that forbids owners from doing it to their vehicle. Now, state police has been spotted actively measuring vehicles to check for illegal amounts of squat, with a series of photos shared to Facebook showing a North Carolina police