VIDEO: BONUS Footage From Harry Metcalfe’s Pagani Adventure – Dial UP The Volume
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Video Find: Latest GT 86 Video Honors Toyota Sports Car Roots, Shows New Footage
Toyota’s barrage of GT 86 videos continues, this time with behind-the-scenes footage of the car’s testing process, along with some road course action and a few sentimental shots of the 86 posing with Toyota’s first sports car, the Sports 800.
The video begins with the GT 86 and Sports 800 parked in the middle of a race track, and the size difference between the two sporty Toyotas is immediately apparent. The cars drive slowly around the track together for awhile, until we’re treated to footage o…
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Unbelievable: Video Footage Shows Drunk Dad Having his 9-Year-Old Daughter Drive him Home
What’s worse; being charged with DUI or with second- and fourth-degree child abuse? Shawn Weimer was too drunk to know he couldn’t drive, but not to realize the serious difference between the two. Detroit police arrested Weimer last week after watching a surveillance video of the 39-year-old man making his 9-year-old daughter drive his GMC Safari to the local gas station at…3 a.m. in the morning. “I got, I got a designated driver. Nine Years old. Nine! Dad’s drinking. Listen, we’re leaving a…
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Video Footage from the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Crash in Italy
It's a real pain in the you-know-what if you crash someone else's car let alone if you're a freelance writer that just ditched a $530k Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 that had been given to you for a test drive. And that's exactly what happened to Thomas Glavinic, a writer that was helping out Austrian car magazine Autorevue with their annual supercar test. We’ve already covered the incident extensively in previous posts, but today, Carscoop reader Raphael from Vienna pointed us to a ne…
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In Car Video Footage of a Very Bizarre Incident
It’s a crazy, crazy world we live in. Don't believe us? Just take a look at this incident that took place somewhere in Asia, possibly in China if Google Translation did its work (visit the comment section to correct us if we're wrong). While we can't be certain of the details surrounding this bizarre episode since the description on Youtube doesn’t make much sense after we translate it into English, through the dash-mounted camera we see someone who is driving a small green Toyota being…
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Video: Watch the 2013 Lexus GS 350 be unveiled along with some driving footage
Lexus has just released the video of the unveiling of the 2013 Lexus GS 350. General Manager Mark Templin unveiled the all-new GS at Pebble Beach yesterday. We also have some driving footage of the new GS.
Check out both videos after the jump.
Click here for our original post on the 2013 Lexus GS 350.
Refresher: The 2013 Lexus GS 350 is powered by a 3.5 liter V6 engine making 306-hp at 6,400 rpm with a maximum torque of 277 lb-ft at 4,800 rpm. Mated to a 6-speed sequential-shift transmission, the Lex…
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New Video Footage of Subaru Impreza WRX STI’s Record Run at the Isle of Man TT
After seeing the growing the attention and interest on Mark Higgins' record lap time -and not to mention, a very close call with a wall during the practice runs- in a U.S. specification 2011 Impreza WRX STI 305HP at the historic Isle of Man TT Mountain Course, Subaru’s American arm issued a new video of the event. The former British Rally Champion achieved speeds of up to 162 MPH (260 km/h) and a lap time of 19 minutes 37 seconds over the 37-mile track, which runs through several small towns with…
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Video: Microdrone Goes On Safari, Buzzing Kenyan Wildlife To Capture Footage
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Regular readers of this page are all pretty familiar with the latest generation of flying robots, from tennis-playing quadcopters to surveillance hummingbirds. But zebras, it’s fair to say, are not. So what happens when a drone buzzes a herd?
The German surveillance bot maker Microdrones took one of their md4-1000 quadcopters to the Masai Mara region of the Serengeti, and used it to capture video of all sorts of African wildlife. Here’s a preview of what their drone saw.
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Video Find: Inaugural Indy 500 Footage Reveals Race’s Origins
In celebration of the Indy 500’s centennial anniversary, IndyCar has released a video clip containing vintage footage of the very first running of the 500. Taken from an old news reel, this short clip summarizes the events of the first 500-mile race at Indianapolis Motor Speeway on May 30, 1911. If you’re a fan of silent films and early motorsports footage, this is one history lesson that you probably won’t want to miss.
Completed in 1909, Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.5-mile long oval track i…