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0Video: Gas station fuel theft goes terribly wrong in Australia 1369330200
It looks like crime certainly didn't pay for these outrageous gas station thieves, as shocking surveillance video caught this amateur Australian couple getting all tangled up at the pumps. The foolish thieves failed to make a clean getaway after filling up for free and poorly planning their big ...
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Featured: Couple having sex on BMW caught by Google Street View is fake, but still funny 1366044300
Google Street View serves two main purposes, helping people with directions and entertaining us with the funny antics its caught on camera. Just when you thought we'd probably seen it all, it looks like a rather risque Australian couple decided to take the term "fender bender" a little too far ...
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Report: Volvo S60 Polestar entering limited production in Australia [w/video] 1365620280
The Volvo S60 Polestar Concept may be entering limited production in Australia and, depending how the Aussies take to this Swedish super sports sedan, could then be made available worldwide. The news comes from Austrlia's GoAuto, which claims to have received early info from its sources inside ...
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Video: Supercars race wheel-to-wheel in Australian GT Championship (w/video) 1362344400
The Australian GT Championship is one of the more entertaining race series going. Racers compete head to head in hardware plucked from our supercar dreams. Drivers campaign bruisers like the Ferrari 458 Italia, Porsche 911 GT3-R, Lamborghini Gallardo, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, Audi R8 and even the ...
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Report: Aussie man reports car stolen 21 times in 13 years to avoid traffic camera fines 1362173400
Nobody likes paying traffic fines, but few have had the gumption to avoid them so thoroughly as Mario Hili. The 64-year-old Australian man came up with an ingenious method of fooling police into canceling any fines against him by reporting his car stolen. Logically, if the car hadn't been in his ...
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Official: Race Recap: 2013 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12-Hour race a feast of water, wrecks and yellow flags 1360704600
For the last two years, Audi has won what's called "The ultimate Aussie endurance race," the Bathurst 12-Hour event at Mt. Panorama, reverentially known as "The Mountain." It did so with factory-backed versions of the R8 LMS Ultra and factory-backed drivers sent over for the sole purpose of ...
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Report: El Camino revival hopes scuttled by Aussie dollar? 1358350380
Could Chevrolet sell a reborn El Camino in North America? Let's ask an expert, General Motors International Operations boss Tim Lee, what he thinks. Speaking to the Aussies at CarPoint.com.au, Lee had this to say: "I think here in the US that vehicle has a tremendous amount of cache so if we ...
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Report: GM CEO promises RHD Corvette, international operations boss says otherwise 1358289000
Affirmation, clarification, smack-down refutation – that was the order of responses when the issue of a right-hand0drive C7 Corvette came up at the Detroit Auto Show. When an Australian news outlet asked General Motors CEO Dan Akerson whether the new Stingray would get an RHD version, he ...
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Video: Australians take world's largest burnout crown [w/video] 1357693200
The previous mark for the number of cars simultaneously performing a burnout, as certified by those record keepers at the Guinness Book of World Records, was 49. That mark has now been moved to 69 (even though the newscast graphic says 70, it was 69) thanks to the petrolheads ready to sacrifice ...
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Video: Unbelievable road rage attack leads to frightful car chase 1355934600
In a bizarre turn of events a defenceless motorist feared for his life during an allegedly unprovoked road rage attack in Australia. Video evidence of the unexplained and violent attack has gone viral since being broadcast on the news program Today Tonight, as reporters focused on the mysterious ...
