Odd and Interesting
Mercedes Owner's $44,100 Service Bill After 115 Miles Sets New Record for Expensive Oil Change
A routine maintenance visit for the Formula 1-derived hypercar cost more than most people's annual salary.
A V8 DeLorean Just Went Sideways Past the Harland & Wolff Cranes. Belfast Deserved This.
The original DeLorean was built in Belfast, powered by a French engine, designed by an Italian and funded by the British government. The one doing donuts in front of Samson and Goliath last week runs a Chevrolet V8 and belongs to a French drift driver fro...
The Car Thief Who Accidentally Became a Music Pirate
When stealing cars leads to stealing chart toppers, prison sentences get complicated.
Wade Mode Is Not Boat Mode. One Texas Driver Has Learned This the Hard Way.
Tesla's Wade Mode pressurises the battery pack, raises the suspension, and lets a Cybertruck ford shallow freshwater obstacles up to around 32 inches deep. It does not make a 6,600-pound stainless steel vehicle float. The distinction matters.
Meet The Pig. Jaguar's Type 01 Has Earned A New Name.
This millennium has produced two genuinely confronting automotive launches. One was the Cybertruck. The other, from a company that used to make the most beautiful cars on earth, is somehow worse.
Forgotten Steel: The Automotive Tools That Built America's Garages
A generation of mechanics learned their trade with instruments that would mystify today's technicians.
Welcome To The Wild West, Where Thieves Haul Away A $Billion Of Oil A Year
Crude oil is vanishing from the Permian Basin at industrial scale. Thieves are operating in broad daylight, and law enforcement cannot keep up.
Mechanics Are Writing Joke Wills Before Working on These Death Trap Cars
A viral shop photo reveals the dark humor mechanics use to cope with genuinely dangerous vehicles that have earned legendary status for all the wrong reasons.
This Cursed Intersection Turns Normal Drivers Into Complete Maniacs
Traffic engineers reveal why certain intersections become magnetic hotspots for the worst driving decisions imaginable.
A Motorcycle Hit a Car. The Car Stayed on the Road. The Motorcycle Ended Up Hanging From the Traffic Light.
At around 3pm on Saturday May 10, a collision between a motorcycle and a silver sedan at Scott Road in Delta, British Columbia, launched the motorcycle into the air. The front wheel caught the overhead traffic signal pole. The bike hung there, suspended a...
Multiple People Called 911 About a Man Trapped in a Truck. He Was a Sticker. He Was Smiling.
On May 3 2026, Macon Missouri Police received multiple calls from concerned drivers reporting a man standing in the back of a moving articulated truck for a dangerously long period of time. Officers responded. The man in question was a decal on the rear d...
He Got Tired of Relaying His Lawn. So He Built a Fence That Slowly Deflates Your Tyres.
Kevin Pringle spent years watching drivers mount his grass verge, leave muddy trenches, and drive away. Aged 64, the former prison officer bought a knackered Hyundai Getz to test his solution. It works. He has a patent. Milton Keynes council has a problem...
An £80,000 Land Rover Discovery Is Now at the Bottom of the Sea in Wales. People Paddleboarded Over It.
A Land Rover Discovery worth around £80,000 was spotted on Abersoch Main Beach at 7.30am on Sunday morning, already half under water with a tow rope floating behind it. By 10am it had completely disappeared beneath the incoming tide. Crowds gathered. A fa...
Brembo Kills Off Brake Fluid After 100 Years With World's First Hydraulic-Free System
The Italian giant's Sensify technology eliminates the messy liquid that's been stopping cars since the 1920s.
Why 1960s Dashboard Lighting Still Beats Your Tesla Screen
Electroluminescent gauge clusters from the Kennedy era created a glow so perfect that modern digital displays look crude by comparison.
GM's Brilliant $2 Sticker Fix for Minivan Doors That Were Smashing Heads
When your billion-dollar engineering solution is literally a warning label.
