Maserati Smashes Into a Porsche 356, a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Mini Cooper Countryman in Miami

In one way, the Epic Hotel in Downtown Miami justified its name on Friday night when the driver of a Maserati GranTurismo crashed into a host of cars including a latest generation Jeep Grand Cherokee, a Mini Cooper Countryman and a classic Porsche 356 speedster – though we don't know if the latter is original or one of the many replicas.

There are many conflicting reports about the incident circulating around the web, including that the Maserati driver was a valet and not the owner, but nothing that we can confirm.

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Toyota 86 Makes its D1GP Debut in Japan…and Crashes!

We all know that the Toyota 86 (or GT86/Scion FR-S) was not made for outright power and top Nürburgring lap times but for having some fun behind the wheel of a nimble sports car. One of the things that the 86 is happy to oblige with is drifting thanks to its rear-wheel drive setup, limited-slip diff and a stability control system that can be fully deactivated.

It goes without saying that the modern-day hachiroku would participate in pro drifting series. But while the standard boxer may be satisfactory for road use, for racing, more power is needed.

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Lamborghini’s Humble Beginnings: Ferruccio and His Tractors

The 1963 Turin Auto Show was an event that saw the realisation of a dream that Ferruccio Lamborghini had nurtured for many years. After recruiting a team of talented designers, including Gian Paolo Dallara and Franco Scaglione, and four months of intense work, he presented the world’s first Lamborghini road car, the 350 GTV, to the media.

Although the unveiling was not without hiccups, most notably the absence of an engine (….), the car was well-received and the legend of Lamborghini road cars was born.

In the years that have followed, Lamborghini has grown to become synonymous with wealth and luxury. Stars like Jay Leno, Nicholas Cage and Ja Rule all drive Lamborghinis and the cars have been featured in everything from movies to rap videos.

Considering the glitz and glamour that often surrounds the vehicles that bear Ferruccio’s name, it may surprise some to learn that Lamborghini himself was a man of humble beginnings and that his bold, charging bulls were born out of a stable that was famous for producing hearty tractors as opposed to exotic supercars.

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Make Your Car Sound Like a Lamborghini Gallardo for only 99¢ [Videos]

True, there are some ways to make your car's engine sound more sonorous, but there's really so much you can do for example to a Chevy Aveo or a Toyota Prius.

Furthermore, with a starting price of 99 cents, 2XCL Games' new XLR8 (get it; accelerate) sounds like a sweet bargain compared to the cost(s) of an actual mechanical component.

The XLR8 is an app available for Apple's iPhone and iPad as well as Android phones and tablets that promises to make your vehicle sound like an exotic Italian supercar, a muscle car or even a racing model.

After you download the application and place the phone in your vehicle, you simply connect the device to the audio system and you're ready to go – just don’t forget to roll up your windows…

"Once secured inside your vehicle, XLR8 uses the accelerometers of your device to realistically respond to acceleration, braking and cornering forces," explains the software provider. "It supports both cabled and wireless Bluetooth audio connections to your car stereo."

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Saudi Driver Rolls Over a 2012 Lexus LX 570 on the Sand Dunes

With all these crazy internet videos of mostly amateur drivers performing amateur yet often dangerous stunts on and off the road in Saudi Arabia, one has to believe that owning a car dealership and/or a repair shop must be an extremely lucrative business in the country.

Carscoop reader 'Stallion' tipped us off about another mishap that occurred on the sand dunes of the Saudi Arabian desert when the driver of a 2012 Lexus LX 570 somehow managed to flip over the large SUV.

Judging by the cheering and the claps in the last of the three videos, we're going to assume that no one was hurt in the accident.

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Vietnam Cop Holds on to Bus' Windshield Wipers as Driver Tries to Escape Ticket!

We have heard many strange stories about police officers and drivers that try to avoid tickets, but what took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, this past Monday, surely takes the cake.

The man you see hanging on to the windshield wipers of a bus is not the local version of Spiderman but a very devoted Hanoi cop.

According to local news site Dantri, police officer Phan Nguyen Manh stopped the driver of the passenger bus, Phung Hong Phuong, in the Ba Vi District for a traffic violation. However, the bus driver refused to show his license and papers and instead chose to drive away, at which point, Manh jumped in front of the vehicle!

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Tony Stark Drives Acura NSX Roadster to The Avengers Red Carpet Premiere [Photos + Videos]

The world premiere of Marvel's big-budget The Avengers film at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood on Wednesday gave us the chance to see Acura's NSX Roadster in real life as actor Robert Downey Jr., aka Tony Stark, drove the one-off concept model on the red carpet.

As noted in one of our previous articles, while the custom-made roadster's exterior looks closely follow the lines of the NSX Concept displayed at the Detroit Motor Show this past January, it's a whole different story under the skin as the car utilizes the platform as well as the interior of a first generation NSX.

The two-seater model isn’t the only Acura model to star in the film as specially converted MDX crossovers and TL sedans were used in the movie by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.

Being an official sponsor of the film, in addition to Downey's arrival in the roadster, The Avengers stars Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) also arrived to the theater in a fleet of Acura models.

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Mercedes-Benz to Present its First Furniture Collection in Milan, Sales Start Later this Year

Mercedes-Benz wants to bring the classic styling elements of its automobile range into your house through its first ever furniture collection that will be revealed in a world premiere at the 'Salone Internazionale del Mobile', which takes place in Milan, Italy, from April 17 to 22.

The signature lineup was created in collaboration with the Formitalia Luxury Group, one of Italy's leading manufacturers of designer furniture, and will be marketed under the Mercedes-Benz Style label.

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Woman Crashes Ex's Ford Into a Bowling Alley After He Changed his Facebook Status to Single!

Have you ever heard the quote by William Congreve, "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned"?

Welcome to the scary world of Davy Jones who saw his former girlfriend, Claire Holley, 31, driving his Ford Focus hatchback into the bowling alley where he worked after he changed his Facebook status to single!

A security camera recorded the incident showing Holley crashing the Focus into the Hollywood Bowl in Middlebrook, UK, stopping right in front of the reception desk. The incident took place on January 25th this year.

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Nothing Says You're Driving a Tough 4x4 Better Than Losing a Wheel on the Road…

A wraparound metal bull bar…check. A safari-style snorkel kit…check. Blacked out windows…check. So, what's missing from this rough n' tough 4x4, which if we're not hugely mistaken, is an older generation Toyota Land Cruiser?

Well, you may as well forget the 4x4 part, as the driver lost one of the SUV's wheels while cruising on a...paved road! Watch a video of the incident in all its glory right after the break.

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Chevrolet Collector Wants to Add a Guinness World Records Title to his Collection

Some people collect stamps, others collect coins but for Charlie Mallon it's all about Chevrolet memorabilia.

The 54-year-old auto dealership consultant has been amassing Chevrolet items for the past 40 years with his collection including signs, racing flags, coffee table books, soda cans, hats, belts, shirts, playing cards, drinking glasses, posters, tractor trailers, a biplane and miniature cars – lots of them, 2,181 different pieces to be precise.

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Watch a 9-Year-Old Boy Drift a BMW E30 Racer

We don’t know if Stavros Grillis from the Greek island of Kos is the youngest drifter in the world, but he's surely one of the youngest and he'll no doubt impress you with his driving skills if you take into consideration his age, since we're talking about a child that's only 9 and-a-half years old…

With the help and support of his father, the talented youngster has been practicing drifting since he was seven. One can only imagine how good he will get to be once he grows up if he continues at this rate.

Head over the break to watch Stavros in action in the videos that follow.

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Moscow Man Tries to Drive Nissan Through a Train Crossing for Pedestrians…

Today, your daily dose of Russian madness comes courtesy of a stubborn driver of a Nissan Teana sedan (loosely related to the older generation Maxima) who for some reason was hell bent to drive over a pedestrian crossing on a train track in Moscow.

Not surprisingly, the car got stuck on the train tracks and being front wheel drive, he couldn't pedal his way out of this situation. Some by-passers quickly came out to help push the Teana back but as soon as they heard the train approaching they left him to watch the disaster that was bound to happen.

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Press Play Button for Some Serious Road Drama

The last thing you'd expect to see on a quiet square of an average town in Belgium is people fighting and shooting guns, large ambulances, police vans, stealthy Mercedes-Benz SUVs and a woman running around on a motorcycle wearing only lingerie – well, okay, scratch the last one.

Yet, this surrealistic scene, which looks like it was lifted straight from a Hollywood blockbuster, took place in the small town of Aarschot in the province of Flemish Brabant, as part of a promotion for the local launch of TV channel TNT.

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Now This is What We Would Call a Very Tight Fit

There's a very good reason why people know the passing through the granite walls at mile 31 of the South Dakota Highway 87 as the Needles Eye Tunnel.

While most regular passenger vehicles will fit in with relative ease, try driving through the tunnel with a large bus and you'll soon find out that's it's as tricky as it sounds, and this is one place you don't want to get stuck in…

Hop over the break to watch the videos.

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Count How Many Times this Car Driver Escaped an Accident

To claim that the driver and the passenger(s) of this car were lucky to escape unhurt from the series of events that took place on the icy road is the understatement of the year, but we're glad they did because they weren't to blame one bit.

Hop over the break to watch the video.

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Russians Teach us How Not to Pull a Truck with Another Truck

Thanks to the prevalence of handheld filming devices, nowadays we can amuse ourselves with incidents that occur half way around the world that otherwise we would have never known happened.

In one such instance, a driver of a Russian Kamaz truck wanted to help a fellow driver whose truck of Chinese origins (according to the YouTube uploader) was stuck on a snow-covered road.

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Little Girl Grows up But Still Loves Daddy's Audi R8 Sports Car

In late 2010, Cris Ostberg posted a video of his then 18-month-old daughter enjoying a ride in his Audi R8 Spyder. The clip became an instant hit, however, due to the fact that several people grilled him about the safety and legitimacy of placing a child seat up front, he removed the video - even though it is legal to do so if you switch off the airbags.

Some 18 months later, Ostberg has posted a new video of his daughter, who is now about three-and-a-half years old. This time she hops into an R8 V10 coupe and plays around with the gas pedal to hear the 10-cylinder engine roar.

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Dissatisfied Nissan Customer Plows Showroom with a Suzuki Grand Vitara in Russia!

There's no doubt we've all experienced a minor meltdown moment while dealing with car repair shops at one point or another, but for some reason, one man decided to take his frustration to a whole new level when he literally destroyed an entire showroom!

It all happened this past Saturday at an official Nissan dealership in Moscow, Russia, with the entire scene being captured on film by a surveillance camera located inside the building.

We managed to find the preliminary Russian police report, which says the unnamed man left his car for repair on April 1, and came to pick it up on April 7.

"Showroom staff reported that the car is repaired, but after waiting several hours, the car owner did not see it," reads the (translated) report.

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Teen High on Paint Steals BMW and Leads Police on a Wild Chase

A seventeen-year old driver of a stolen BMW X5 crossover was involved in a high-speed chase that took place in Brisbane, Australia, on Monday, and which lasted for close to two hours.

According to the police, the driver of the SUV, William John Noel Compton, was under the influence of paint when he was arrested.

The teenager along with six more youths aged from 13 to 19 reportedly stole a white BMW X5 along with a black BMW Z4 roadster from the same Westlake home in the early hours of Monday morning.

The police eventually tracked down the two cars and began pursuit when they failed to stop. Media helicopters followed from above and filmed the entire chase, which for the occupants of the X5, ended when the teens entered an underground car park.

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