It was just after ten p.m. on Chugoku Expressway in Yamaguchi Prefecture -- western tip of Japan’s main island of Honshu--when drivers on an expressway and driving eight Ferraris, one Lamborghini, three Mercedes Benz vehicles and two Toyota cars became part of the world's most expensive car crash. The pack of luxury vehicles got itself into a massive mess that rainy, Sunday night. Read more
The California DMV Wants You To Like Them on Facebook are they nuts?
I don't know one person that doesn't shudder or curse when they hear the word DMV. Nor can I think of anything place that brings up such a feeling of hatred as the idea of sitting at the DMV and dealing with the mostly miserable incompetent employees. Read more
Drivers found themselves in the position of so many dinosaurs--as nearly 500 cars rank among numbers of the disabled and stuck or damaged after a tanker truck spill sent the stickiest of a gooey tar-like substance over miles of the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Thanksgiving. Cars either sailed or stuck as spilled sealant continued to harden. Read more
It's amazing how a few seconds can be worth a million bucks--or actually $1.1 million dollars. Five luxury cars collide outside the main casino at Monaco's Place du Casino, for a tally of over a million dollars worth of damaged cars. It all seems based around a Bentley as the trigger. But throw in an Aston Martin, Porsche, Ferrari and Mercedes for fun. Read more
One California motorcyclist is very lucky--to have hitched a ride instead of ending up dead after rear-ending a van in a car accident. The rider got thrown into the vehicle's back seat instead of thrown all over the road. Police name the unheard-of event "a non-injury collision with a twist". Really. Read more
While waiting at the Santa Monica CA Department of Motor vehicles today, I was blown away with the amount of Los Angeles Lakers decorations and regalia. Read more
As the nation battles record-setting gas prices, one Florida gas station uses unadvertised prices to lure unknowing customers with rental cars -- charging two dollars more per gallon of gas than a Read more
Dealerships have offered all kinds of incentives for buying a new car or truck, including locale-specific perks like snowboards for mountain areas. A Florida car dealership is offering up its version of a used-truck incentive: a free AK-47 assault rifle with purchase. A Missouri car dealership offered a similar promotion last year--the CNN interview, gone wrong, priceless. Read more
I recently rented a car from Avis Rent A Car, but only needed it for driving to a hotel from an airport, back and forth from the hotel to work daily, a trip of less than 2 miles, and finally back t Read more