Posts Tagged ‘crash’
Red light cameras are nothing more than a surreptitious tax. Oh sure, they're sold to municipalities as a safety benefit, but what else would you say if you wanted to be paid to install, administrate, and monitor your little ticket-writing bots? The cities and towns that put the cameras greedily sna......
Acura recalls 273,000 TLs due to fire fears
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Honda put out two recall notices today that affects some 273,000 2004-2008 Acura TLs. One of the recalls addresses a windshield wiper issue, where a potentially faulty circuit breaker on 129,600 '04 and '05 TLs could fail, rendering the wipers useless.The other recall is a bit more compelling. Appar......
Lucky Len Cave survives rolling Mazda3 race car 10 times
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Click above to watch Len Cave's epic crash at the Bathurst 12-hour race.We knew that the Aussies hoon it large, but Syndey's own Len Cave took it to a whole 'nother level. While racing his Mazda3 MPS (Mazdaspeed3 here in the U.S.) during the Bathurst 12-Hour race, Cave put a wheel wrong nine hours ......
GM recalling 180,000 Chevrolet HHRs
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
click above to view more high-res pics of the 2008 Chevy HHRGeneral Motors stepped up and sent a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration informing them of a defect with the Chevrolet HHR that could pose a head injury risk. After testing the retro-wagon back in December, it was d......
Geländewagen, Geländewagen, does whatever a Geländewagen does
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
The Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen, known contemporarily as the G-Class, is an incredibly capable vehicle. More than able to shuttle the kids to soccer practice and chaperon celebrities to night clubs, as it has been relegated to do in modern times. Climbing walls like Spiderman, however, might be wher......
Ford recalling 180,000 vans and SUVs for two issues
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Another day, another recall. This time it's Ford with two separate recalls that involve its big SUVs and full-size vans. The first affects 124,000 Ford Expeditions and Lincoln Navigators built from 2007 to 2008. Apparently the spring system inside their door handles could break. While not a life thr......
Duo critically injured when race-prepped Porsche flies off highway
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Click image to see one other photo of the wrecked 944Cody, a reader from the Kansas City area, let us know about a story that made the rounds on the local news there on Monday. Two men were in a race-prepared Porsche 944 driving down Highway 350 when the driver, an employee of the owner (who was not......
Five young men killed when BMW flies off runway
Friday, November 16th, 2007
At about 3 AM early this morning, five young men were killed when the gray 2008 BMW they were riding in flew off the end of a runway's 85-foot embankment near Ocala, FL. The accident happend on the runway of the exclusive "fly-in" community of Jumbolair Aviation Estates, where John Travolta happens ......
VIDEO: Hyundai Genesis hits the wall hard for crash test
Monday, November 12th, 2007
The Hyundai Genesis has just finished shooting its close-up. Shot in what looks like ABC Super Slo Mo, you get a pretty good idea of how you'll fare in a Genesis should you encounter another large object at speed. During the frontal impact test the passenger cabin remained virtually unaffected, and ......
An uncrashable motorcycle from BMW?
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
BMW has been known to come up with some interesting motorcycle designs, such as the Telelever, Duolever and Paralever suspension configurations. The above image, taken from a recent patent application, proves that the fertile engineering minds at BMW haven't stopped trying to improve the basic two-w......