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Video: Watch this bad parker get what’s coming to him

Filed under: Videos, Jaguar, Humor

Jaguar XK driver is taught a lesson

If you’re lucky enough to have a nice vehicle, do your fellow gearheads a favor and don’t park like a clown. Seriously. Not only will you anger everyone who is trying to find a place to park, but your nice car is a billboard reinforcing the stereotype that car people are self-important and inconsiderate.

Take this gentleman for example. He has a Jaguar XK, and understandably wants to take care of it. Rather than parking it far, far away from any other cars and getting a bit of exercise by walking to his building, he takes up two spots (albeit barely) close to the structure. From the cameraman’s narration, we can tell his coworkers are less than thrilled about his inability to stay between the lines.

Naturally, they wanted to teach him a lesson, so they parked a bigger vehicle as close to his driver’s door as possible. Mr. XK’s attempts to enter his vehicle are rather amusing, culminating in his climbing through the passenger side and scooching over to the driver’s seat. While we can debate this sort of treatment all day long, it was effective. The video includes a follow up at the end showing where the XK driver parked the next day, and as you might guess, it wasn’t in the same spot.

Take a look at the full video below, and remember, be a considerate car person.

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Spy Shots: Porsche 911 GT2 caught testing, is super bad

Filed under: Spy Photos, Performance, Europe, Crossover, Porsche, Luxury

Look what spy photographers have spotted sprinting around the Nürburgring. Our shooters nabbed a few photos of the all-new Porsche 911 GT2 in its native habitat without any of the bulky camouflage or cladding we’re used to seeing. The result is our first truly clear view at the upcoming successor to the GT2 throne. From the looks of it, the new model will boast wider fender arches front and rear, and hefty air intakes set into the machine’s hips should help feed a beastly 3.8-liter flat six-cylinder engine. Early guesses put the engine output somewhere around 560 horsepower.

Mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, the engine should propel this rear-engined heathen to 62 miles per hour in under three seconds. Top speed? Try somewhere around 200 mph. If that’s true, the next-generation 911 GT2 will be the fastest 911 in Porsche history.

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PSA: Using an armchair as a replacement seat is a bad idea

Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Canada, Humor

passenger armchair

Ottawa police were conducting roadside seatbelt checks as part of the Spring Seatbelt Campaign, when one of their stops brought an unexpected surprise. A green Chevrolet minivan’s driver got into some trouble thanks to the aftermarket passenger seat he installed. This was no Sparco or Recaro, mind you – the driver went with something more akin to a La-Z-Boy.

You see, an armchair resided where the passenger seat was once bolted down. An unrestrained armchair with a thought-deficient passenger riding shotgun. The 33-year-old driver was cited for operating an unsafe vehicle, and he was also charged with driving on a suspended license. The cops scored a two-for-one, and the passenger was lucky he didn’t have to pick windshield out of his face.

[Source: CBC.ca | Image: Ontario Provincial Police]

PSA: Using an armchair as a replacement seat is a bad idea originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mirrored Smart Fortwo Electric Drive: Seven years of bad luck if you crash? [w/video]

Filed under: Coupe, Videos, Smart, Electric

disco-ball smart fortwo electric drive

Apparatjik rocks the disco-ball Smart Fortwo – Click above to watch video after the jump

What happens if you take a Smart Fortwo Electric Drive, add a disco-ball finish and then throw in Electriconic Rock group Apparatjik? You get the mirrored two-seater shown above, as well as a rather odd video featuring enough flashing lights to push epileptics into DEFCON 1.

The electric party-mobile is a one-off creation thought up by the Apparatjik crew. It’s a music group comprised of Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman, A-Ha guitarist/keyboardist Magne Furuholmen, Mew lead singer Jonas Bjerre and producer Martin Terefe. The car will be used in a film called Pixel City. It also has a starring role in an Apparatjik music video, which can be seen after the jump. Just don’t crash… that’s a lot of mirrors ripe for a shattering.

Gallery: Disco-ball Smart Fortwo

[Source: Daimler]

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Bad Bugs: Facebook contest for who can configure the ugliest Bugatti Veyron

Filed under: Etc., Bugatti, Design/Style

ugly bugatti veyron

We all love a good online configurator tool. Bugatti may have the best one out there due to the sheer number of exterior and interior color combinations available. That lends itself to problems though because a group on Facebook users decided to hold a competition to see who could produce the ugliest Veyron.

We’ve created a masterpiece of mayhem in the image above, but we suspect you can do even better. Share your work with links in Comments and let’s see what sort of twisted, high-dollar visions foment in your minds. Thanks for the tip, Christian!

[Sources: Facebook, Bugatti]

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By the Numbers – 2010: The Year After That Really Bad Year Edition

Filed under: By the Numbers

2010 will be forever known as the year after that really bad year. 2009 was a horrible string of days for just about everyone who had two pennies to rub together, but automakers were hit particularly hard.

The only good thing for automakers about such a bad 2009 is that it made every month in 2010 look good in comparison. And so it is that those green bills earned from all those extra car sales is represented by the preponderance of green-shaded cells in our By the Numbers table. Here’s the crib sheet of noteworthy news to be gleaned from our wall of numerals below. If you spot more noteworthy items, call them out in the Comments.

  • The four remaining “Core” brands of General Motors sold more in 2010 than the eight brands of Old GM sold in 2009: 2,202,927 to 2,084,492.
  • Ford Motor Company outsold Toyota Motor Company to regain its No. 2 sales position by General Motors.
  • If Hyundai and Kia were counted together in the U.S., their combined sales of 894,496 units would make them the seventh largest automaker in the U.S.. Separately they are the seventh and eighth largest and the largest single-brand automakers in the U.S.
  • Subaru, one of the best performing brands of the past two years, sold more vehicles in 2010 than Volkswagen, Europe’s largest automaker: 263,820 to 256,830.
  • Buick sales increased the most in 2010 with a 51.89-percent increase, while Smart sales fell the farthest with a 59.39-percent decline.
  • The three best performing brands of 2010 are from General Motors (Buick, Cadillac and GMC)
  • Audi sold over 100,000 vehicles in the U.S. for the first time ever.
Brand/Company Vol. % Volume 2010 Volume 2009 DSR*% DSR% 2010 DSR% 2009
Buick 51.89 155,389 102,306 52.88 508 332
Cadillac 34.68 146,925 109,092 35.56 480 354
GMC 28.95 334,981 259,779 29.79 1,095 843
Porsche 28.55 25,320 19,696 29.39 83 64
Infiniti 27.53 103,411 81,089 28.36 338 263
Acura 26.37 133,606 105,723 27.20 437 343
Jeep 25.65 291,138 231,701 26.47 951 752
Hyundai 23.71 538,228 435,064 24.52 1,759 1,413
Audi 22.86 101,629 82,716 23.67 332 269
Subaru 21.77 263,820 216,652 22.57 862 703
Ford 21.49 1,756,439 1,445,742 22.28 5,740 4,694
Land Rover 21.13 31,864 26,306 21.92 104 85
Volkswagen 20.32 256,830 213,454 21.11 839 693
Kia 18.73 356,268 300,063 19.51 1,164 974
Mercedes-Benz 18.05 225,007 190,604 18.82 735 619
Dodge 17.13 383,675 327,574 17.89 1,254 1,064
Nissan 16.86 805,159 689,014 17.62 2,631 2,237
Chevrolet 16.44 1,565,632 1,344,629 17.20 5,116 4,366
BMW 12.02 220,113 196,502 12.75 719 638
Jaguar 11.59 13,340 11,955 12.31 44 39
Chrysler 11.54 197,446 177,015 12.27 645 575
Mazda 10.49 229,566 207,767 11.21 750 675
Ram 9.14 212,952 195,112 9.86 696 633
Lexus 6.18 229,329 215,975 6.88 749 701
Honda 4.96 1,096,874 1,045,061 5.64 3,585 3,393
Mitsubishi 3.82 55,683 53,636 4.50 182 174
Lincoln 3.60 85,828 82,847 4.28 280 269
Mercury 0.97 93,195 92,299 1.63 305 300
Mini 0.93 45,644 45,225 1.59 149 147
Toyota -1.28 1,534,266 1,554,174 -0.64 5,014 5,046
Volvo -12.19 53,948 61,435 -11.61 176 199
Saab -37.26 5,446 8,680 -36.85 18 28
Suzuki -37.98 23,994 38,689 -37.58 78 126
(Hummer) -57.86 3,812 9,046 -57.58 12 29
Smart -59.39 5,927 14,595 -59.12 19 47
(Saturn) -95.42 12,300 268,686 -95.39 40 872
(Pontiac) -99.34 1,182 178,300 -99.33 4 579
COMPANIES
GM (Core) 21.32 2,202,927 1,815,806 22.11 7,199 5,895
Ford Mo Co 19.41 1,935,462 1,620,888 20.19 6,325 5,263
Jaguar Land Rover 18.15 45,204 38,261 18.92 148 124
Nissan NA 17.98 908,570 770,103 18.75 2,969 2,500
Chrysler Group 16.51 1,085,211 931,402 17.28 3,546 3,024
BMW Group 9.94 265,757 241,727 10.66 868 785
American Honda 6.93 1,230,480 1,150,784 7.62 4,021 3,736
GM 6.27 2,215,227 2,084,492 6.97 7,239 6,768
Toyota Mo Co -0.37 1,763,595 1,770,149 0.28 5,763 5,747

*Brands and companies are displayed in descending order according to their percentage change in volume sales. There were 306 selling days in 2010 versus 308 selling days in 2009, so the change in monthly sales volume will be different than the change in average daily sales rate (DSR) for each brand/company. Also, brands are combined and reported as companies only if their sales figures are released jointly.

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Video: Lady Camaro driver has bad day, tries to escape police, succeeds in burnout

Filed under: Etc., Videos, Chevrolet, GM, Mercedes-Benz, Humor

Camaro Cop Car Burnout

This is the last place you want to do a burnout – Click above to watch video after the jump

When Johnny Law has you and your fourth-generation Chevrolet Camaro convertible cornered, your best bet is to turn off the engine and put your hands where they’re clearly visible. While that may be the smart play, not everyone enjoys taking the easy route. One woman apparently decided to put on a show for the officer boxing her in – by ramming his car and allowing her tires to put on one heck of a smoke show.

Amusingly, the display of rear-wheel drive shenanigans was apparently enough to completely frazzle a nearby Mercedes-Benz E-Class. When you watch the video, note that the passing Benz driver couldn’t flee the scene fast enough, yet they were also seemingly paralyzed by fear – or at least indecision. Click past the jump to watch this train-wreck of a traffic stop. Thanks for the tip, Syed!

[Source: YouTube]

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Video: Bad parenting and bad driving know no bounds

Filed under: Etc., Europe, Safety, Videos

Driving baby

In Poland, babies drive the cars – Click above to watch the video after the break

Warning: Do not try this at home. As much as we’d love to read you the riot act that contains the rest of the typical automotive video warnings – “professional driver on a closed course,” “no animals or small children were harmed in the making of this video” – well, we’re not entirely sure we can claim any of those things are true.

What we have here is a man and a woman who have apparently taken it upon themselves to exercise their inadvisable right to procreate. Oh, and a baby and a car. We’ll set the scene: Man and baby jointly drive car, on what appears to be a public street in Poland, in traffic. Woman records grainy video, family later uploads results to YouTube.

We’ll be the first to admit that we don’t know how old this video is (it has a recent upload date, but who knows?), but it’s still worth watching. We don’t want to spoil it for the rest for you, so all we’ll say is that you have to watch it all the way through to get the full scope of the awful parenting involved. Click past the break to see what all the fuss is about… and please, no Polish jokes in the Comments.

[Source: YouTube]

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Video: Bad Habits’ monster truck world record practice session doesn’t go as planned

Filed under: Motorsports, Truck, Videos, Off-Road, Racing

Hey ya'll, watch this!

Bad Habits takes a dive – Click above to watch the video after the jump

Few realms of motorsport live the “Go big or go home” mantra to the fullest quite as well as the monster truck world. Aside from one of the largest voiceovers in the industry (“Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!!“), the guys who wrangle the epic horsepower, rear-wheel steering beasts of the Monster Jam circuit also boast some of the biggest egos. You know, the kind of sheer will of character that it takes to look at Bigfoot’s 202-foot, record-setting jump over a jetliner and think, “Nah, I can do better.” Such is the case with Joe Sylvester, the 26-year-old driver of the Bad Habits truck.

Sylvester has got it into his mind that he can embarrass the Bigfoot record, and has set about building a truck and a ramp to do just that. Only thing is, things didn’t go so swell during a practice session this week. After nailing his homemade ramp, the Bad Habits truck promptly began to turn its nose back toward terra firma, and it wasn’t long before the machine evaporated into a cloud of giant tires and red clay. Sylvester was unharmed in the accident and plans to officially attempt to break the record at this weekend’s Cornfield 500 at Columbus, PA’s Miller Farm. If you can’t make it, don’t worry – the folks at DirtVision plan a live webcast of this Sunday’s attempt.

Either way, we wish Sylvester the best of luck. You may want to do the same after hitting the jump and watching his failed practice attempt for yourself. Thanks for the tip, Shawn!

[Sources: YouTube, Cornfield500, DirtVision]

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eBay Find of the Day: Gulf Racing DeLorean is a very bad idea

Filed under: Classics, Coupe, Auctions, Specialty, Design/Style

Gulf liveried DeLorean – Click above for high-res image gallery

Don’t get us wrong. We love ourselves some DeLorean, and we’d argue there may not be a more iconic motorsports paint scheme in history than the classic Gulf Racing livery. But sometimes, two rights make one horrible wrong. Such is the case with today’s eBay Find of the Day.

Call us purists if you must, but DeLoreans should all be left in their bare unfinished stainless steel suit. And so it’s a rather good thing that this otherwise fine example of the breed isn’t actually painted at all – the horrid coating you see in the images below is actually a vinyl wrap. Thank God for small miracles.

Looking past the unfortunate wrap, what we have here appears to be a very nice gullwinged coupe with under 10,000 miles. It’s got the preferred five-speed manual transmission, has been updated with an Eibach suspension kit and it’s been otherwise completely refurbished by the experts at DeLorean Motor Company.

At the time of this writing, the top bid sits at just over $15K and there’s five days left. Happy bidding (and happy removal of its vinyl wrap…)!

Gallery: Gulf liveried DeLorean

[Source: eBay Motors]

eBay Find of the Day: Gulf Racing DeLorean is a very bad idea originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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