New Zealand

For the first time ever, the Crown Range, New Zealand's highest paved road, was closed off for the drifting pleasure of one man. That man is Mad Mike Whiddett, and the machine he's piloting is a heavily modified Mazda RX-7 sponsored by the energy-rich crew from Red Bull and powered by a ...

New Zealand officially has a new international-standard road track. Highlands Motorsport Park is a 4.5 km (2.8-mile) circuit with three complete tracks that can be safely operated at the same time. Designed to serve as a members-only facility, the boots on the ground say this track is likely one ...

A bizarre sea foam storm brought strange chaos to the shores of Queensland, Australia earlier this week. While local residents flocked to pose for "foam party" photos and capture video of the rare occurrence, police were kept busy directing traffic through the dangerous conditions. While you may ...

A 12-year-old New Zealand girl's joyride came to a sudden end when she crashed her car into another vehicle being driven by her 14-year-old sister who was out looking for her. Police say they were initially called by a concerned motorist who reported nearly being hit by another driver who could ...

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? According to ambitious animal experts at the New Zealand SPCA, you can actually teach a handful of young rescue dogs to drive a MINI Cooper S Countryman... by themselves! The concept behind this publicity stunt video is to draw awareness and change ...

Body shops employ all kinds of sorcery when it comes to correcting crimes against sheetmetal. Their arsenal of tools is wide and varied and almost always includes a massive suction cup or two. You know, just like the powerful GoPro suction mount. A skilled hand can apply the suction cup, give a ...

Cats generally don't like car rides. Cats universally detest veterinarians too. Yet to showcase the die-for-it allure of the Toyota Corolla in New Zealand (which isn't our Corolla but the European Auris), ad house Saatchi and Saatchi asked, "What lengths would a cat go to for a ride if they loved ...

You've probably heard of more than a few eBay or Craigslist specials that sound too good to be true; "Buy it for just $1- today only!" More often than not, its a ruse, luring you in for a far less inciting, yet more realistic transaction. If you are Stadium Cars, you wish it were the latter, but ...

Ah, the Wankel. You magnificent, high-revving feat of unorthodox engineering. Your biggest champion, Mazda, may have left us – at least for the moment – but that doesn't mean some mad mechanics can't rally you and a few friends for a high-horsepower party. The folks over at Pulse ...

A New Zealand man, for reasons only clear to himself, decides to attempt a Starsky & Hutch drift around a corner in an old hooptie truck that can only kindly be described as vintage. With that opening, you're no doubt expecting the obligatory "of course it all goes wrong and he crashes." And ...