You, a veritable “Genius,” drive on the shoulder of the highway. Everyone else, AKA “morons,” sits in traffic, clearly too dumb to follow your brilliant plan. Until karma and the law blow up in your big stupid genius face.Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
Here’s a protip for all you aspiring criminals out there: if you’re going to hand over camera footage to the police, try to make sure that footage doesn’t contain video of you committing crimes. Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
If you’re going to drive 150 mph, don’t do it on a public road with a bad record of fatal crashes, in the middle of the night, with police lights in your mirrors. And maybe, just maybe, don’t do it in a Ford Mustang. Those things don’t have the best record when it comes to […]
The 2000 Honda Civic was a good if unsexy car, coming out in the model’s late middle years. Famously reliable, a lot of 2000 Honda Civics are still puttering around, too, like this one in Kalaeloa, Hawaii, that was viciously stolen Friday via a forklift. Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
The state of Arizona is finished with Uber’s self-driving car test program.Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
Indiana State Police pulled over a 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat for going more than twice the speed limit on a toll road Tuesday, clocked at at 160 mph, as the department said in a statement. The driver purportedly told an officer he was “just trying to get to Maryland.”Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
It’s a crappy situation but it still happens: Someone hits your car while it’s parked and drives off without leaving you a note. Jalopnik Friends, let’s combine our super powers and see if we can identify the kind of car that hit this Tesla Model X!Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
Three teens were taken into custody by Florida police, after they allegedly stole 46—forty six—cars across three cities, police said on Monday. The arrests followed an apparently hectic effort to track down the thieves. Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
An Infiniti QX70 driver in Miami crashed into a bunch of cars, and then apparently tried to escape. But a group of angry citizens ran him down, and wrecked his already-crashed SUV, with one guy using a sledgehammer to inflict the karmic, vigilante justice. Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
Police in Metro Detroit are trying to locate two cargo vans that were stolen from a dry cleaner in Detroit—and the vehicles had some notable belongings inside: dozens of police and firefighter uniforms. Whoops!Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
According to the Associated Press, a man had a court date in Connecticut on Wednesday to face charges for car theft. He showed up to that court date in a stolen car, police said. That is very bold.Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
This video of a motorcyclist riding one long-ass wheelie through St. Louis has been floating around for a day or so. Since the clip opens with the bike next to a cop car, you might think it’s about to be skull-cracking time. But surprisingly the police appear to be uncharacteristically pro-wheelie here.Read more… Continue Reading […]
A state representative in Rhode Island wants to get rid of speed cameras entirely after municipal courts were flooded with hundreds of motorists protesting tickets issued by new school zone speed cameras in Providence, reports the Associated Press. Rep. Anthony Giarrusso introduced legislation last week that would…Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
A complaint filed with a U.S. District Court in Florida accuses former NASCAR driver Rick Crawford of trying to pay for sex with a minor, a fictitious 12-year-old girl used in a police investigation. Crawford was taken into custody upon arriving for the encounter, where he thought he was meeting the girl’s father.Read more… Continue […]
About a year ago, we reported a lawsuit that accused Ferrari authorizing a Florida dealer of illegally rolling back odometers on its cars. Now, this week, Ferrari admitted to knowingly allowing its dealers do this for certain owners, which is highly illegal and could screw the entire used Ferrari market. Here’s what…Read more… Continue Reading […]
Video showing what clearly appears to be a Florida Highway Patrolman in a Highway Patrol Dodge Charger lining up alongside a Lamborghini Aventador and racing down the road is now under investigation.Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
On a miserable gloomy day, stuck in miserable, gloomy traffic, one impatient road-rager got an unfortunate surprise when they tried to pass everybody else very illegally on the right.Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
The Austin American-Statesman reports that, according to an arrest affidavit, a man in jail near Austin tried to steal a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt after a confrontation at a stop sign on Saturday. The confrontation apparently involved some yelling, a machete and confusion—confusion about how to drive an electric car.Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
You may recall that last year we reported on a lawsuit from a longtime Ferrari salesperson that alleged that Ferrari authorized the use of devices that could roll back the odometers of used Ferraris, dramatically (and illegally) increasing their value. Now, according to a report by the Daily Mail, there’s evidence…Read more… Continue Reading at […]
Sometimes, the best way to make your point is to remain calm and guide the other person to a mutual understanding. Other times, you take their Pontiac G5 and you ram it right into a Walmart parking lot barrier over and over.Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
