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Driving a Go-Kart with Concrete Tires

Driving a Go-Kart with Concrete Tires

The cars in The Flintstones rolled on wheels carved from boulders. Chris Rollins took a different approach to making stone tires for his go-kart by casting them from concrete. How fast and far can he drive on these punishing solid tires before something breaks? Watch part two here.

V8 Engine Business Card + Pen Holder

V8 Engine Business Card + Pen Holder
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This miniature V8 engine is the perfect desk accessory for any gearhead. GT Scientific uses a 5-axis CNC mill to machine the mini engine from aluminum. The center of the LS3-inspired block holds business cards, while the cylinders each hold a pen or pencil. They also make a smaller version for your keychain.

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Paul Swift Stunt Driving Showreel

Paul Swift Stunt Driving Showreel

Stunt driver Paul Swift and his precision driving team have performed in numerous movies, TV shows, commercials, and live shows. This showreel compiles some of their many amazing stunts, including Audis dancing in a swimming pool, a Ford Raptor jumping from an airplane, and cars balancing on two wheels.

Robotic Parking Garage

Robotic Parking Garage

Locking up your bicycle to a rack or pulling your car into a marked space seem like nice, low-tech approaches to parking. Tom Scott explains why some locations in Japan have adopted a much more complicated system, using underground garages and massive, robotically-controlled systems for parking bikes and cars.

Chocolate Hyundai Ioniq 6

Chocolate Hyundai Ioniq 6

King of chocolate Amaury Guichon adds another vehicle to his edible garage by building a scale model of Hyundai’s new Ioniq 6 EV. Amaury’s version is powered by sugar instead of batteries and has zero driving range, but it makes up for it with its delicious flavor and chocolatey aroma.

Testing an Inflatable Car Bubble

Testing an Inflatable Car Bubble

If you own a fancy sports car, you might store it beneath a tarp. WhistlinDiesel got their hands on something much more fun. The Car Capsule is an inflatable dome that creates a protective cushion of air around your ride. While it’s not totally puncture-proof, this short clip shows it holding up to all kinds of torture.

Strangest Car Features Ever

Strangest Car Features Ever

Modern cars have some really useful tech, like adaptive cruise, backup cameras, and heated seats. But not every idea automakers come up with is good. Rhetty for History explores some of the weirdest ideas for car features that have popped up over the years, from a triple-lever shifter to an in-dash record player.

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Transforming an R/C Bugatti into a Cardboard Truck

Transforming an R/C Bugatti into a Cardboard Truck

After buying a remote-controlled model of a Bugatti Divo, master of papercraft Dan Creator decided he’d prefer to drive a truck. So he got to work stripping down the scale supercar, removed its body, and reconfigured its chassis and drivetrain to ride beneath a cardboard model cargo truck loaded with tiny Amazon boxes.

Cars Making Funny Noises

Cars Making Funny Noises

If you’ve ever brought your car in for service, you might have had a hard time explaining the noises that it’s making. But if it sounds like a wounded animal, a locomotive, or a snare drum, it’s much easier to describe. Just Rolled In compiled this amusing video of cars and the spot-on descriptions of sounds they’re emitting.

Taking an R/C Truck for a Walk

Taking an R/C Truck for a Walk

5MadMovieMakers doesn’t have a dog, but he does have a remote-controlled truck he treats like a pet. So he took his four-wheeled pup Traxxas Slash for a trip in the car and let him roam around the park for a bit. While Traxxas doesn’t play fetch, he does bring the newspaper inside and won’t ever poop on the rug.

Nitro Warriors Interceptor

Nitro Warriors Interceptor

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the short film, Nitro WarriorsSpaceCamperBike, Paul Greer’s Vanguard Pictures is back with another action-packed stop-motion car chase. This time, a truck carrying valuable cargo is pursued by a dragon car and a crew of malicious motorists. After the cops show up, a T-Rex gets in on the action.

Extreme Suspension Simulation

Extreme Suspension Simulation

We’ve witnessed first-hand how car companies test the suspension setups on new vehicles. They also use computer simulations with realistic physics models. This video from ExtenPro shows how various vehicle suspensions might handle on a punishing course they set up in the vehicle simulation game BeamNG drive.

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World’s Greatest Batmobile Replica

World’s Greatest Batmobile Replica

An Ohio man built this incredible replica of Bruce Wayne’s original 1966 Batmobile. The car is accurate down to the buttons and switches inside the cockpit, which trigger various crimefighting gadgets. And when there’s nobody behind it, its “engine” can even shoot flames. Be sure to watch him take on The Joker in his Clown Vic.

Making an R/C Ferrari GTO from Scratch

Making an R/C Ferrari GTO from Scratch

Most people who make remote-controlled cars start with an off-the-shelf chassis, then attach a plastic body shell. But Liu Mutou is an overachiever. With the exception of the tires and motor, he built virtually every part of this R/C Ferrari 250 GTO replica from scratch, including a welded metal frame and bent metal body.

Cardboard Dragon Ball Z Hovercar

Cardboard Dragon Ball Z Hovercar

DBZ fans might be familiar with the Hovercar, first driven by Ox-King, then by many others. DanCreator thought he should have his own hovercar, so he built one from wood, cardboard, pool floats, and leaf blowers. It glides over smooth surfaces with ease, though we wouldn’t suggest taking it in a swimming pool.

Exploded Car Sculpture

Exploded Car Sculpture

Modern cars are made from thousands of parts, precisely engineered to fit together and carry us safely down the road. Commissioned by Nissan China in 2012, Dutch artist Paul Veroude took a car’s 3,421 individual parts and suspended them from the ceiling relative to the locations where they are normally assembled.

LEGO Batmobile Animation

LEGO Batmobile Animation

Animator, LEGO and Batman fan Idan Kotzen created this fantastic animated short celebrating some of the various Batmobiles over the years. The stop-motion and clever use of lighting give the cars a great sense of movement, as LEGO Batman gives chase to the evildoers of Gotham.

World’s Longest Hot Wheels Track

World’s Longest Hot Wheels Track

To celebrate the launch of CrunchLabs, engineer Mark Rober endeavored to set up the world’s longest Hot Wheels track. At over a half-mile long, the track takes advantage of the warehouse space and has stacked switchbacks with Hot Wheels Boosters to keep the cars moving. We’d love to see the FPV footage of the full ride.

The Right Way to Use a Backup Camera

The Right Way to Use a Backup Camera

Backup cameras have been a great addition to modern cars, improving rear visibility and reducing fender benders. But they don’t all do a good job telling you how far you are from objects. This guy came up with a clever hack to ensure he always parks just the right distance from the wall in his garage.

First-Person View Racing Slot Cars with Tiny Cameras

First-Person View Racing Slot Cars with Tiny Cameras

If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to shrink down and drive inside of a slot car, this video is for you. Project Air teamed up with DIY Perks to create a 200 foot-long slot car track, then rigged the cars with tiny cameras and wireless transmitter, and wore video goggles for a first-person view while driving.

Driven: 2022 Volkswagen Jetta GLI Autobahn

Driven: 2022 Volkswagen Jetta GLI Autobahn

The 2022 Volkswagen Jetta GLI has a sharp new look compared to earlier Mk7 Jettas, but it’s largely unchanged mechanically. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. The GLI Autobahn combines sporty styling inside and out with a zesty turbocharged engine, premium wheels, an adaptive suspension, and other upgrades.

JAWNY: Adios

JAWNY: Adios

Director Spencer Ford’s music video for the JAWNY track Adios is a masterpiece of drone photography. Its main subject is a muscle car being hooned about a neighborhood while its passenger sings the track in perfect time. Kudos to Jay Christensen and Grant Ridpath for the astounding aerial shots.

How VFX Crews Destroy Cars for Movies and TV

How VFX Crews Destroy Cars for Movies and TV

If there’s one thing you can rely on action movies and TV shows for, it’s car crashes. While some filmmakers have moved on to using CGI for crash effects, practical vehicle stunt work is still the most convincing. Insider got together with J.E.M. FX to explain the tricks required to create controlled vehicular mayhem on screen.

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