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Best Of 2020: Ryan Newman’s Last Lap Crash At The 2020 Daytona 500
Nineteen years ago, I was in a classroom in a high school in Illinois, working on a project during a study hall session when I learned what happened: during the running of the 2001 Daytona 500 the...
Ever Wonder What It Would Look Like If An Underground Tank At A Gas Station Blew Up? Watch This
One moment you are just standing there pumping gas like a normal person and the next you are the unwitting star of a real life Michael Bay movie. These people in Madinah, Saudi Arabia were having an...
Extracto Peugeotnium: Furze And The Trebuchet, Round Two
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when the permits were requested for this one. “Alright, Mister Furze, everything seems to be in order here. You are…” (adjusts reading...
Historical Footage: Have You Ever Wondered What Would Happen If You Crashed A 1970s-era Fiesta Into A Lightpole?
The Ford Fiesta is an interesting small car. We got it in the United States for three years (1978-1980) as one of the many knee-jerk reactions to the 1970s gas crises and quickly realized that it...
Rename, Stat: Watch As The Nissan NP300 Hardbody Folds Up Like Origami In A Crash Test
Outside of the United States market, the Middle Eastern market is my next best-understood level for cars. Spend 26 months in one place where the only other things to look at involve sand, port-a-john...
Watch Romain Grosjean Walk Away From One Of The Worst Formula One Crashes In History
This is beyond stunning. This is the worst single F1 crash we have ever seen anyone survive and when you listen to the sport’s veterans and survivors from the deadliest days, they all agree. On...
Seeing This Mini Getting Launched Into The Air Makes Us Think Only One Thing: “That’s Gonna Hurt.”
Autograss racing sounds like a blast to us. Popular in the U.K. and Ireland, the basics are simple: there’s classes of cars that branch from mini-cars to V8-powered beasts, that race on a...
Winter Wonderland: A Compilation Of Snow And Ice Fails
Technically, it’s just about a month away, but winter weather has already slammed the continental United States, and with it comes the delicate act of driving in the snow. While we’d all...
The Wile E. Drop Test: How Volvo Is Mangling Cars In The Name Of Rescue Training
Translate from metric to standard at your leisure, but 30 meters in the air is roughly 100 feet. 100 feet in the air, dangling from a guide wire, with some schmoe hanging on to the emergency release...
Riding The Washington State Ferries During A Windstorm Wasn’t A Good Idea…
For the most part, riding the Washington State Ferry service is a pleasant affair. You drive onto one end of the ferry, let the workers chock your car, then you head up into the passenger cabin for a...
Classic YouTube: Crash-Testing The NASCAR SAFER Barrier, Just To Make Sure It Worked
Racing cars crash every now and then. It’s just a fact supported by statistics. Nobody wants anybody hurt in a crash…not the driver, not the fans, nobody. Over the course of motorsports...
Slight Miscalculation: The Tough Truck Mustang Gets Friendly With The Wall At Buck Motorsports
Between 1979 and 1993, millions of Ford Mustangs rolled off of the assembly line. Millions. Their popularity hasn’t waned any, either…they are light, easy to modify, have an outstanding...
This Compilation Of High-Speed Vehicle Crash Testing Is Brutal! One Car Into Another At 200 KM/H!
When you were a kid playing with your Hot Wheels, did you ever simulate accidents? I sure as hell did. I had one car in particular, a Dodge Monaco cop car, that in my twisted little mind, was...
The Final Word: Take A Quick Look At The Art Of The Crash Barrier
Nobody ever wants to have to have the opportunity to thank a crash barrier for doing it’s job…because if that has occurred, it’s already a pretty messed-up day. When control is...