We just can’t get enough of this nonsense. We believe these guys are also from Saudi Arabia, although there are some in the UAE also capable of this. So these oafs are trying to get the Toyota Hilux onto two wheels. After two tries, they should’ve given up.
Illegal drag racing is rampant on the streets of America, if you know where to look. Seen here is what happens when the cops got organised and almost managed to bust an entire unsanctioned event. Almost.
In 1998, Japanese racing driver Tetsuya Ota was involved in a chain reaction collision during a GT championship race. Ota was trapped in his Ferrari for more than 50 seconds while exposed to 800-degree temperatures. The safety crew was slow to respond as fellow drivers frantically extinguished the flames. The result ended with serious burns to Ota and a lawsuit against track promoters and sponsors.
There’s a saying that money can’t buy love. It seems money can’t buy driving skills either, as demonstrated eagerly by this Ferrari owner at the drag strip.
Here’s a real-life car chase video from America. The guy killed some people and was running from the cops. He didn’t make it. It is a nice demonstration of what happens if you speed in a tall 4WD.
Most of you have seen drifting videos from Japan and Europe, featuring all the regular ho-hum rear-wheel-drive cars. Well, here’s one from somewhere in Europe, where a truck shows some BMWs how to do it right.
Chevk out this hooligan, apparently from Libya, going in circles in a beater Honda Civic with bald tyres. What’s worse is the number of people he could easily kill with a slip of the hand. Wait for the last part of the video. The guy is seriously a comedian.
Most people know the consequences of jumping red lights. Those social rejects who cannot figure that out either have their cars impounded or simply end up killing themselves and others. Sometimes they actually survive by sheer luck, as this surreal traffic video from America shows.
There are many people out there who make us wonder how they ever managed to get a license when they cannot even move a car into a parking space. The problem is present in Italy too, where some cannot even figure out if a car will fit in a particular space. Not a glowing tribute for women drivers either. Stay within the lines, people.
While we might have it bad around here in terms of driving standards, there are countries out there which have it worse. This intersection in Russia does not have traffic signals, and drivers are supposed to cross the junction based on courtesy alone. The results, of course, are not pretty.
Back in the early 1980s, before America became a country that tries too hard to be politically correct, yet managed to turn everything into a political disaster, there existed a gaming console known as the Atari 2600. In the days before Nintendo and Sega, the Atari ruled and the best game ever at that time was Pole Position, which can be called the first proper driving game ever. I first played it in the early 90s as a kid on my fake Atari, but this original ad is from the early 80s, when the game was new and people weren’t offended so easily. Do not watch this if you feel that seeing an entire family blown to bits is not funny.
You might’ve come across “Arab drifting” videos before. Rowdy youth in Saudi Arabia started this trend, spinning their Toyotas in multiple 360s on public streets full of traffic and bystanders. The trick is simply to do 180 kph in a bouncy car and start yanking the steering wheel left and right with a dab of the handbrake, while loading down your car with four of your dumbest buddies to keep the car from flipping over. You have to wonder how they practice this nonsense. And what happens when things go wrong.
Video Of The Week is our new segment, where we will feature a video we find on the internet that no one should miss. In this segment, we see two retards inaccurately reported as in Yemen go dune-bashing with a Toyota pickup, with hilarious results.
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