Great car driving music with a film car chase montage (video)
CAR driving music with a film car chase montage. Can you name the films?
Posted: 14th, May 2013 | In: Cars, Film | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Skills of Defensive Driving – Episodes 1 to 5 (1973)
IN Skills of Defensive Driving, the Australia Department of Transport pops the sex comedy soundtrack into the player and keep your eyes on the road. This was made by Film Australia in 1973:
Episode 2: Easter Time
Episode 3: The Car Behind
Episode 4: The Head On Collision
Great intro. An inspiration for Police Squad.
Episode 5: Cross-roads crash
Spotter: Jalopnik
Posted: 8th, May 2013 | In: Cars, Flashback | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Was the Yugo the worst car ever made?
WAS the Yugo the worst care ever made? Known locally as the Zastava Koral, the Zastava corporation’s compact hatchback died in 2008, when the last horror rolling slowly off the Zastava factory in the Serbian town of Kragujevac.
Posted: 28th, April 2013 | In: Cars, Flashback | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Hyundai make staggeringly stupid advert where a bloke tries to kill himself with clean emissions
HYUNDAI have made a staggeringly stupid advert where a bloke tries to kill himself via “pipe job” locked inside one of their cars but fails because the emissions are too clean. Maybe the faceless Hyundai drove him to it?
Posted: 25th, April 2013 | In: Cars, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Chosen Few Motorcycle Club was America’ first black biker set
NOT all biker sets are white boys. The Chosen Few Motorcycle Club were formed in 1959 in LA:
“The 60s was a hell of a time. With the Civil Rights Movement, The Viet Nam War, Flower Power & Free Love. Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. Also the Crazy World of the Outlaw Bikers.”
Some history:
“When you talk of the Outlaw Bikers you automatically think of ‘Them Crazy White Boys’ doing what a lot of folk wish they could do. Live Life Like You Want & F*ck You And Your Rules. Well Guess What? There was some crazy Black bikers who felt the same way, and didn’t give a F*ck. Thus was born the Black Outlaw Bikers!”
Posted: 11th, April 2013 | In: Cars, Flashback | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
‘Roadrage Instant Karma’: Volvo driver undertakes bikers
IN Roadrage Instant Karma, the Volvo driver moves to undertake the bikers who are spread across the road. The Volvo ends up in a bad place. The bikers give him the finger and drive on. But karma is not about retribution and punishment. It’s about intention. The Volvo driver never meant to injure the bikers. He just wanted to get by. And they weren’t letting him pass. If the bikers’ brand of karma is right, it is they who’d best watch out:
Posted: 8th, April 2013 | In: Cars | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Jeralean Talley at 113: oldest living American recalls only time she ever drove a car
JERALEAN Tallley was born May 23, 1899. She is the oldest living American. Born in Montrose, Ga., she moved to moved Michigan in 1935. She has one child, 75 year old Thelma Holloway. In this video, the 113-year-old woman recalls the only time she ever drove a car:
Posted: 7th, April 2013 | In: Cars, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
When a Lamborghini Miura SV burns no-one in London can find a fire extinguisher
IN London a Lamborghini Miura SV burns. The fire brigade were in no hurry. And no-one in London has a fire extinguisher:
Posted: 7th, April 2013 | In: Cars | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Man-Catcher: the car’s ultimate safety device
THE MAN-CATCHER never did catch on. The 1020s safety device “consists of three rollers attached to the radiator of the vehicle. Directly the rollers touch an obstacle, they automatically drop to the ground and push it away.” If the rollers push it away into the path of a tram or into a hole, so be it.
Spotter: Fulltable
Posted: 27th, March 2013 | In: Cars, Flashback | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Ford Figo advert shows Berlusconi kidnapping three women for a Bunga Bunga Party
THIS Ford Figo* advert in India shows Silvio Berlusconi and 3 ladies on their way to a Bunga Bunga party. Is Silvo kidnapping them? Can Silvio only get women to sleep with him if he ties them up first? Who’s in the back seat, the Yorskhire Ripper?
The caption reads: “Leave all your worries behind.”
Is Silvio going to – you know – dispose of the ‘worries’ lest they tell all to the police? Maybe not. It’s not like he’s in an Indian mini bus, so chances are that the victims will get to live after they’ve been raped.
Posted: 25th, March 2013 | In: Cars, Politicians, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
So why the heck do they want to build Bentleys in Bratislava?
HOT in from the Mail we have the news that VW are thinking of building their new Bentley SUV in Bratislava in Slovakia. And why in Buggery would anyone want to do that?
Bentley may build its new luxury off-roader in Bratislava rather than Britain, the firm’s bosses have revealed.
In a dramatic blow to its 4,000-strong British work-force – and to Chancellor George Osborne ahead of today’s Budget – the firm’s German chiefs announced at their annual results conference in London that they were considering manufacturing the £150,000 4X4 in the Slovakian capital in Eastern Europe.
Posted: 20th, March 2013 | In: Cars, Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Russian dash cam video of the day: the wing mirror two-step
WE’VE featured those Russian dash cams on Anorak before. In this video of life on the open road, two Russian truckers exchange wing mirrors. As the camera moves away, the two drivers continue to row. They might well still be there, swapping and shredding each other’s stuff, the duo stood on a pile of ex-trucks and clothing, still fighting as the sun sets…
Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Anorak TV, Cars | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Kia launches the ‘Provo’ car – in orange (Northern Irish orders rocket)
HATS off to Kia, whose Provo car is available in orange. It aims to seduce both sides of the North Irish sectarian divide. Not everyone is pleased:
“Lawmakers from Northern Ireland formally appealed Tuesday for the South Korean carmaker to junk the name of its planned super-mini sports coupe because “Provo” is the nickname for the dominant branch of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, the Provisional IRA.”
Also available with black and tan interiors…
Posted: 5th, March 2013 | In: Cars | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Margaret Thatcher’s battle bus sells for £17,000 (photos)
MARGARET Thatcher’s 28-tonne ‘battle bus’ used for her Northern Ireland tour has sold for £16,940 at auction. The bus weighs 38 tons, seats 32 passengers and can survice a 7.62 bullet / handbag-encased brick.
Posted: 23rd, February 2013 | In: Cars, Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Cow mates with mortorcycle (video)
EVER put the wrong fuel into an engine, unleaded into the diesel? The owner of this motorcycle saw a cow making a wrong turn:
Posted: 19th, February 2013 | In: Cars, Strange But True | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Driving in Russia: Dash-cam captured madness
THE meteor that hit the Urals was recorded by a car’s dashboard camera. Many Russian cars have them. It’s about insurance. Can you prove that the man whose car you drove into the back of stopped very suddenly, as if - as if… – he wanted you to damage his broken old wreck? Sure, witnesses emerge from all sides to back up his claim of your recklessness, but with dash-cam you can argue your case.
Also, Russian driving is nuts. It’s not just about insurance. It’s about capturing those magic moments for posterity.
Things to looks out for:
Posted: 19th, February 2013 | In: Cars | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
TO Taiwan, to see the road rager and his magnificent gloves:
Posted: 18th, February 2013 | In: Anorak TV, Cars | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Frank Lecerf teaches Romain Grosjean how to drive a Renault at speed without crashing
FRANK Lecerf’s car wanted to go Belgium. Quickly. His adapted Renault Laguna stuck at 125mph. (Mr Lecerf is a registered epileptic.) The brakes failed. Whenever he braked, the car sped up. Mr Lecerf kept going until the petrol ran out. It turns out like most things – wine, mussels, celebrities, politicians and buter, which all have silos and lakes based in Belgium - cars also like to die there.
Posted: 14th, February 2013 | In: Cars, Sports | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Holden driver posts footage of himself breaking the law
TO Canberra, Australia, now twinned with Darwin. A joy rider is on the police radar:
On Monday January 21, police received a complaint of a red Holden Commodore performing burnouts in the Gungahlin area. Later that day, police viewed footage of a vehicle matching the description performing a burnout in Baillieu Court, Mitchell.
The footage had been posted by the registered owner of the vehicle to his Facebook account.
Posted: 7th, February 2013 | In: Cars, Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Naples driver’s U-turn meets Monty Python (video)
TO Naples, where a man in a small car is attempting to execute a U-turn in a narrow street. The action heats up at the 1:30 mark when the cast of local Monty Python Appreciation Society arrives:
Posted: 7th, February 2013 | In: Anorak TV, Cars | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Car of the day: 1959 BMW Isetta Whatta Drag with 730 hp Chevrolet V8 engine – photos
CAR of the day is a 1959 BMW Isetta Whatta Drag with 730 hp Chevrolet V8 engine. It’s a three-wheel bubble car on fire. Would anyone be game enough to drive the thing? The Isetta never had a reverse gear. The only way in is through the front door. Once in, you stay in – unless you brake very hard and you can the car fall on your faces…
It has dual-circuit disc brakes with an AP balance bar, while the suspension is taken from an M3. The front wheels are wrapped around in B.F. Goodrich G-Force tires, while the rear custom 18×13 inch drag racing wheel has a Sumitomo HTRZ II tire.
Although developed to be fully functional, the vehicle is strictly for show and shouldn’t be used on roads or track because the “massive amount of torque produced by the Chevrolet 502 motor can be dangerous if driven improperly.”
The 1959 BMW Isetta Whatta Drag is expected to fetch between 75,000 – 100,000 USD.
Posted: 29th, January 2013 | In: Cars | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The worlds largest simultaneous burnout
PRESENTING the worlds largest simultaneous burnout. As a reader writes:
How clouds are made in Australia.
Posted: 9th, January 2013 | In: Cars | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Lexxa Ridley: Car dealer dad uses model daughter to sex up his lot
LEXXA Ridley, 20, (real name?) is the mo-del helping dad Kim flog a 1977 Datsun 280Z on eBay. Says Kim Ridley: ”If I felt bad about it, I wouldn’t do it.” He owns Ridley’s Rides in Eugene, Oregon. ”Girls and dogs attract people’s attention.” Dogs with Girls is the dream – see the Ridley advert of Max, the family’s golden retriever, riding in a sidecar while Lexxa straddles a bike.
Posted: 29th, November 2012 | In: Cars, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
