MotorBuzz
The Porsche 930 Turbo: Why They Called It the Widowmaker
Porsche built one of the greatest sports cars ever made in 1975. It also accidentally built one of the most dangerous. Here is why the 930 Turbo earned a nickname that still follows it today.
Florida Man Drives Missile Truck Down the Interstate. Florida Man Sees No Problem With This.
A Ford Maverick, a metal rack, two plastic missiles, and a multi-agency bomb squad response. Just another Sunday on I-4.
The FTC Is Finally Coming for Dealers Who Advertise Cars That Don't Exist
You've found the perfect car online. Great price. Right colour. You call the dealership. It sold two weeks ago. The FTC has had enough of this, and dealers now face fines exceeding $50,000 for it.
Labour's Cabinet Claimed £58,589 in Taxpayer Fuel Subsidies. Then Refused to Help Drivers with the Fuel Duty Rise.
Eleven of Keir Starmer's Cabinet have claimed nearly £60,000 from the public purse toward their petrol bills over the past three years. The same Cabinet is refusing to scrap a 5p-a-litre fuel duty rise due in September. Rachel Reeves is among the claimant...
The Koenigsegg Gemera Has Finally Started Production. Six Years After the World First Saw It.
Announced in March 2020, repeatedly delayed, subjected to a complete powertrain redesign that killed its original three-cylinder engine entirely, the Gemera is at last being assembled in Ängelholm. All 300 have already been sold.
GM Took Hundreds of Millions from Canadian Taxpayers, Cut 1,200 Jobs, and Moved Production to Indiana. Canada Wants Its Money Back.
On the morning of 30 January 2026, around 500 autoworkers at GM's Oshawa Assembly Plant clocked out in freezing temperatures and walked out of the building for the last time. Across the supply chain, a further 700 jobs were expected to go with them.
One Fine Every Minute: Why New Zealand's Speeding Revenue Has Never Been Higher. And Why That Should Worry Everyone.
In 2025, New Zealand Police issued 538,192 speeding fines. One every 52 seconds, every hour, every day for the entire year. The total revenue was $54.2 million. It was the highest fine count in 16 years. The government that approved this enforcement regim...
Captain Slow Rode His Old Orange Bike to Court. The Charge Was About His Old Orange Bike.
James May, 63, arrived at Lavender Hill Magistrates' Court on Thursday morning wearing an orange shirt. He rode there on a motorcycle. The motorcycle was not the one in question. The one in question was his 50-year-old orange Suzuki GT750, known in Britai...
98 Arrests. A Dashboard Bong. Meth, Heroin and Fentanyl Under the Seat. Washington State Has Questions.
A 45-year-old man in Thurston County, Washington has now been arrested 98 times. His truck contained a custom bong built into the dashboard so he could smoke drugs while driving. It also contained meth, heroin, fentanyl, and thousands of dollars worth of...
NYPD Officers Wrote 678,000 Tickets Last Year. Cameras Wrote 4.4 Million
Automated enforcement is now issuing 6.5 times more traffic violations than human officers in New York City.
Caught Speeding Twice in Illinois? The State Wants to Take Control of Your Car's Top Speed.
A new Illinois bill would let courts order a device fitted to your vehicle that physically prevents you from exceeding the posted speed limit. Two qualifying offences in twelve months is enough to get you enrolled. The programme runs for up to three years...
He Drove a Stolen Car to His Own Stolen Car Trial. The Cops Were Already Watching the Car Park.
Ricardo Otero, 41, of Soledad, California, had a court hearing scheduled on Tuesday morning at the Salinas Courthouse. He was already facing an auto theft charge from November 2024 and a jury trial set for July. He pulled into the courthouse car park at 1...
Mercedes-AMG Claims Its Next Black Series Will Be More Extreme Than Actual Race Cars
The German automaker says its upcoming street-legal homologation special will pack wilder aerodynamics than track-only GT3 machines.
YouTube Mechanics Are JB Welding Connecting Rods and the Results Are Catastrophic
Viral repair videos push the miracle adhesive beyond all engineering limits, leaving engines destroyed and wallets empty.
MG Just Beat Tesla and Toyota to the Battery Holy Grail
The Chinese-owned British brand quietly launched the world's first mass-produced semi-solid state batteries while everyone was watching Silicon Valley.
Two Guys in a Garage Just Built a 400mph Drone. Then Someone Built a Faster One. Then the First Guy Did It Again.
A Melbourne aerospace engineer hit 690 km/h in the Australian outback on a drone he built for $3,000. The official Guinness record belongs to a father and son team in South Africa. Neither is finished.
