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High Dutch driver spurs police chase in cornfield
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch farmer watched in disbelief as a driver under the influence of cocaine drove a slalom course through his corn field, only to be joined by two police vehicles in hot pursuit, adding to the damage.
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A new season of Top Gear has just started now that Richard Hammond has fully recovered from the brain injury sustained crashing a rocket powered car. The new episode is as good as everything up to when production halted.

Rocket cars are scary. A tire blowout at 288mph caused the crash and the car was still going over 200 when it flipped upside

How da fuck do a Ferrari end up in a rose bush?!

If Nihilist #1 from The Big Lebowski hosted Pimp My Ride:

You just got an 'F'
It's definitely sucking
Oh snap!

I do like the new Mark V GTI, but I wouldn't buy one, since I can buy Ford cars at a discount and could get a new Mustang GT for around the same price. I would get a Golf with the highly efficient TDI engine if I was looking to get a ( Read more... )

I really want to drive a car costs more than my house through southern France. Perhaps I should explain why I feel this way in case it isn't obvious to you.


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Chevy stopped making Camaros in 2002, but now you can build your own Camaro from all new parts, now that new bodies based on the 1969 convertible are being made and are sanctioned by GM as real Camaros. New hardtop bodies are not yet available, but probably will be.

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I was running errands this afternoon and bought gas at the station a block from my house. After filling up, my car refused to start and the check engine light came on (it wasn't on before I went to the gas station). I told the attendant that my car would probably be blocking the gas pump for a while and offered to move the car out of the way if ( Read more... )

I need to get new tires for my car and I want a performance all season tire that is about as sticky on pavement as the set of Yokohama AVS ES100 I currently have without sucking in the snow. I am undecided on whether I will be running the new tires all year or if I will get a new set of wheels to put summer tires on ( Read more... )

"It went 14.6 @ 100mph this summer at PMI, at only 14psi. Imagine if you could get it to hook up. Hello 13s timeslips for $1500. Then spend $500 upgrading the fuel system and ECU - hello 12's. The car will outrun my friend's Suzuki SV650 (Naked sportbike) from a roll on the street. It is a very fast car ( Read more... )