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Why you should be careful parking around a Ferrari

Parking can be pretty tricky, especially if you’re in a van with not a lot of visibility.
Usually though, things tend to go off without a hitch, but there are times when even talented drivers slip up and touch the cars already parked on the side of the road.
That’s what one van driver did, but [...]

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Video: Bad Habits Monster Truck jump goes wrong

If there’s one motorsport that uses competition between vehicles to the fullest, it’s Monster Truck racing.
After the famous Big Foot truck managed to jump a distance of 202 feet, Joe Sylverster, driver of the Bad Habits monster truck decided to one-up his adversary.
As such, he has been practicing the routine at his own home in [...]

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Video: Check out 13 trucks crashing into the same low trestle

A low trestle (the support for a bridge) in Durham, North Carolina, in the USA, has claimed, in a period of 13 months months, more than 13 trucks that crashed into it.
It seems that its height, 11 feet and 8 inches, has tricked a lot of truck drivers who thought that they could clear the [...]

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Video: Thunderstorm causes massive 69-car pileup on Arizona Interstate

Driving through bad weather, from fog to thunderstorms, should always be avoided whenever possible, or approached very carefully, when it can’t be helped.
Phoenix residents learned that the hard when, when a thunderstorm erupted on Interstate 10 in Arizona. The storm caused almost zero visibility, which resulted in a massive 69-car pileup and the closure of [...]

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Video: BMW X5 goes stunting … and fails

For some inexplainable reason, one BMW X5 owner thought that his SUV would be perfect to attempt a stunt jump.
As such, he made a dirt ramp, and tried to jump the heavy German offroader, as well as barrel roll it in midair.
Needless to say, it all ended pretty badly for the car, which at least [...]

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The definition of luck

Real life is always better than the movies, even when it comes to spectacular and quite frightening episodes. It baffles me how no one died after this horrid crash, but I guess some are more lucky than others. No film director could ever match this! I can bet on that.
It happened at the Brands Hatch [...]

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