Colossal Supercar Pileup in Japan Destroys Eight Ferraris, Three Mercedes and a Lamborghini [Videos]

In what may be if not the worst, one of the nastiest and most expensive supercar crashes of all time, 14 vehicles including eight Ferraris, three Mercedes-Benzes, a Lamborghini, a Toyota Prius and an unspecified Toyota, were involved in a massive pile-up on the Chugoku expressway in Shimonoseki, southwestern Japan on Sunday.
Luckily, no fatalities were reported though ten drivers suffered bruising and some minor injuries.
“The accident occurred when the driver of a red Ferrari was switching from the right lane to the left and skidded,” Mitsuyoshi Isejima, executive officer for Yamaguchi Prefecture’s Expressway Traffic Police unit told Bloomberg News. “It was a gathering of narcissists," said Isejima who added that the drivers were aged between 37 and 60 years old.
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Revenge of the Nerds: Chevy Gives “Socially Influential” People Free 3-Day Sonic Test Drives

Providing a free ride to influential people is a tried and tested method that carmakers employ to generate publicity about a model. Sports players and socialites, however, now have to take a back seat to people with a great influence on social media.
What exactly does this mean? Well, General Motors has enlisted the services of a company named Klout. This company ranks a person’s “social influence” and then runs a sampling program providing said person with certain “perks” – in GM’s case, a 2012 Chevrolet Sonic.
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Ad Watch: Volkswagen Tiguan and the Parking Duel

No matter where you live, searching for a parking space is a frustrating experience and can often lead to a confrontation with another driver vying for the same spot.
Recently, advertising agency DDB Argentina took this modern day problem and morphed it into a clever car commercial title "Volkswagen Tiguan: The Duel" to showcase the compact SUV's hands free parking system.
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Mercedes-Benz CLS Hits a Nissan GT-R and Tries to Run Away... [Video]

A hit-and-run is one of the lowest acts and absolute worst decisions that someone can make while driving a vehicle on the road. stupid
Proving his foolishness, the driver of a white-colored Mercedes-Benz CLS in Japan scrapped his (or her) car against a grey Nissan GT-R while changing from the left to the right lane and attempted to flee the scene to avoid paying for the damages.
The fender bender can be seen 17-seconds into the video at which point, the driver of the Nissan GT-R pauses for a couple of seconds before launching an all-out attack to capture the perpetrator before he (or she) got away.
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Santa Claus Takes a Ride on the Wild Side in a Ford Fiesta S2000 WRC [Video]

They say Christmas is a time for giving, and Ford's European division did exactly that by inviting Joulupukki over from his home in Lapland to Hungary to take part in in a number of charity events over the coming days.
For those of you wondering, Joulupukki is not the Finnish version of Jalopnik but as we learned from the all-knowing Wikipedia, Finland's version of Santa Claus with the name literally meaning "Yule Goat" or "Christmas Goat".
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Colossal Supercar Pileup in Japan Destroys Eight Ferraris, Three Mercedes and a Lamborghini [Videos]

In what may be if not the worst, one of the nastiest and most expensive supercar crashes of all time, 14 vehicles including eight Ferraris, three Mercedes-Benzes, a Lamborghini, a Toyota Prius and an unspecified Toyota, were involved in a massive pile-up on the Chugoku expressway in Shimonoseki, southwestern Japan on Sunday. Luckily, no fatalities were reported though ten drivers suffered bruising and some minor injuries.
“The accident occurred when the driver of a red Ferrari was switching from the right lane to the left and skidded,” Mitsuyoshi Isejima, executive officer for Yamaguchi Prefecture’s Expressway Traffic Police unit told Bloomberg News. “It was a gathering of narcissists," said Isejima who added that the drivers were aged between 37 and 60 years old.
Unidentified eyewitnesses told reporters at the scene that the group of Ferraris, which included several F360s and a white Testarossa (or 512 TR / F512 M), were travelling over the speed limit going around 140km/h to 160km/h (85mph to 100mph).
Local media estimated that the total worth of the supercars alone is somewhere around 300 million yen or about US$3.85 million / €2.85 million.
"I've never seen such a thing," highway patrol lieutenant Eiichiro Kamitani told the AFP News agency. "Ferraris rarely travel in such large numbers."

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Peugeot Study Reveals that Half of British Men Find it Easier to Maintain Their Car than their Girlfriend

A new research study from Peugeot, which polled over 2,000 people in the United Kingdom, reveals that a significant number of British drivers are often more concerned about their car than their other half.
According to the "RCZ Study" commissioned by the French carmaker, 50 percent of men in Britain confess that they find their partner more difficult to maintain than their vehicle and 1 in 10 guys admit to being more fascinated with their cars’ curves than their partners.
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In Russia, Changing Gears in a Truck will Turn You into a Man [Video]

For those of us that choose to change gears on our cars the old-fashioned way via a manual gearbox, the appeal of this type of transmission is in the mechanical actions.
But as you're going to see for yourself in the video after the break, not all manual gearboxes are made equal. Somehow, we don't think that the driver of this Russian truck is having a lot of fun changing gears…
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Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano Slowly Roasts in the Middle of the Road in Dubai

Even though a Ferrari on fire is nothing new these days, in any other part of the world, a brand new or relatively new 599 GTB Fiorano slowly burning in the middle of the road like an over-sized shish kebab would have at least caused some commotion. But not in Dubai, the land of all things grand, ambitious and insanely expensive.
There's a couple videotaping the roasting Italian spécialité but nothing much else is happening with the drivers on the road just continuing their way.
We don't know how the accident happened nor if anyone was injured – though we assume that if the driver was still inside, someone would have stopped to help. Video follows after the jump.
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Video: Yep, That's a Great Parking Job

Perhaps the driver of this new Ford C-MAX minivan didn't want to get his or her front tires wet, or maybe he or she was in a hurry for an appointment and didn't notice […] the u-shaped metal fitting sprouting out from the road. Whatever the case, we'd love to hear how the driver of the car explains this mishap to his/her insurance agent. Aftermath video follows after the break. .

This is What Happens when You Get Cocky with a BMW X3 at the Beach [Video]

Would you believe us if we told you that the BMW X3 SUV and the sea don't mix? Well, actually, some people need to find that out the hard way.
The owner of a murdered-out, first generation BMW X3 mistook the Bavarian model for a Lada Niva true-blue 4x4 and attempted some show and tell at the beach (possibly somewhere in Poland) by driving the crossover down to the water to pick up his other toy, a jet ski on a trailer.
As you can imagine, things didn't quite work out the way he planned… But at least he and his buddies had some good laughs and at the end, he was able to pull out the bimmer from the sand and the sea with the help of a winch. You can watch the videos for yourself right after the jump.
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Audi's El Clásico: A1 Real Madrid CF vs A1 F.C. Barcelona

The countdown for one of the most important and publicized football matches of the year, the first El Clásico of the season between Real Madrid and Barcelona, has begun. On Saturday, December 10, the two Spanish football teams will face each other for the 216th time (including UEFA, Super Cup and Copa del Rey matches).
But before we see the two teams on the field, Audi's marketing time wanted to give fans an automotive perspective of the match with a special spot titled "La pasión vuelve a dejar huella".
The video shows two Audi A1 hatchbacks dressed in the colors and liveries of Real Madrid and Barcelona battling it off on the tarmac. You can watch the duel in the video after the break.
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NSFW: Gisele Spends Some Time in a Cadillac CTS-V Coupe [Parts 1 & 2]

The first thing most of our readers [sic…] may notice about this video is that the featured Cadillac CTS-V Coupe is equipped with an automatic transmission. Do we really need to tell you what else your eyes will rest upon after that?
And oh, it's probably a good idea to tell you that both videos are somewhat NSFW (probable less about Work, more about Wife). If staged clips about girls taking a ride in a fast car is your kind of thing, all you have to do is follow the jump to watch Gisele and her ride in the automatic Caddy.
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Ford Mustang GT Does Not Have Wings, Plunges from the Third Story of Swiss Parking Garage

An unnamed 24-year old driver of a new Ford Mustang 5.0 GT from Switzerland turned a humdrum parking job into a life-threatening situation when he went through the concrete wall of the third story of a parking garage in the Swiss city of Lugano on Monday.
The car fell from a height of around 15 meters (approx. 50 feet) before it came crashing down to the ground on some protective metal bars and a small tree.
Miraculously, the young man suffered only minor bruises and abrasions from the plunge and was released from the hospital he had been taken in.
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Mythbuster: Are Modern Truck and Car Emissions Comparable to that of Lawn Blowers? [Video]

With government agencies enforcing stricter emission regulations every year and auto manufacturers doing their best to prove that their cars are as eco-friendly as possible, hyperbole is part of the game.
A common saying is that the modern cars are cleaner than lawn equipment and that the carbon dioxide emissions they release are actually lower than that present in the air that comes into the combustion chamber.
Edmund's Insideline decided to put the theories to the test. Since cars come in all shapes and sizes, they chose two examples from the opposite side of the spectrum: a Fiat 500 mini and a Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Crew Cab pickup.
The diminutive Fiat is powered by a 1.4-liter four with 100HP, while the big and menacing-looking Raptor sports a 411HP 6.2-liter V8.
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Fiat Banks on Spicy Abarth 500 Spot, Gives it the Pop-Up Treatment

Why stop when you have a good thing going? And with some 2.2 million views on Fiat's official Youtube channel alone, we'd say the company's 500 Abarth Seduction clip starring Romanian hottie Catrinel Menghia, has been a very successful communication tool for the Italians.
Now, less than a month after the original digital spot made its internet debut, Fiat has released a so-called "pop-up" version by VH1 that incorporates some fun facts about the clip and the two protagonists that will run through the end of December.
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Chuck Norris Approved: Man Flies Out of Truck Window but Walks to Tell Another Tale

Seatbelts are there for a reason and that is to save the lives of passengers and the driver alike. Now, you'd think that in this day and age, anyone without a death wish would use them.
Well, sadly, many people all over the world continue to ride in motor vehicles without strapping on their seatbelts. In this incident, a large lorry violates a red light ramming an oncoming truck at the intersection.
As a result, the driver (or the passenger, we're not sure) who obviously wasn't wearing his seatbelt, was flung out of the windshield. Amazingly, the man got up on his feet and walked away, slightly injured but nevertheless, alive. The crash happens approximately 50 seconds into the video which you can watch after the break.
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Dealer Celebrates Showroom Opening by Dropping a 1950s Cadillac 60 from a Crane… [Video]

There are a lot of different ways to go about generating some buzz for the grand opening of a new car dealership, but hanging a classic 1950s Cadillac 60 sedan from a crane and then releasing it to crash down to the ground is something you don't see happening every day.
This controversial marketing stunt came from the Texas-based, Frank Kent Motor Company, and it took place on November 11 for the opening of its new Cadillac store in Fort Worth.
We can't say for sure what condition the Caddy was in, and even though the move did realize its goal of getting the word around for the new showroom (we're here talking about it, aren't we?), somehow trashing one of your brand's classic models doesn't seem quite right. That or we’re being old fashioned about it…
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Mechanical Synfonica is an Ode to Orchestra and Fast Cars with a Pinch of Good-looking Women

While fast cars and beautiful women are a match made in heaven, producer Alexander Sperr and director Daniel Michaelis took a slightly different turn with their latest clip by incorporating the classic sounds from a symphony orchestra into the mix.
The cars featured in the video are a modified Audi S5 and a BMW 3-Series [E92]. While we can't say that we're too enthusiastic about the editing of the video which was allegedly shot at the Stelvio Pass in Italy, the clip is worth a few minutes of your time. You can check it out after the break.
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Something to Think About This Christmas: African Boys Make Homemade Toy Car [Video]

It's a well-known fact that children of all ages and ethnicities enjoy receiving gifts. Nevertheless, it's not uncommon for certain kids in better-off countries and/or families to be overly spoiled and at the same time ungrateful despite getting whatever their hearts desire …and then some more.
This brings us to this video starring a little boy from Africa and his homemade toy car. Even though it's clear that there are much more important concerns in his and his friends' lives, using whatever materials he could get his hands on, he was able to build this simple yet ingenious in its own way, toy car.
Be sure to check out the video past the jump.
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