There's Something Reversely Wrong with this Driver

You could say that this driver is pretty good with his hands behind the wheel, or completely senseless, or perhaps better yet, both.

How else can you explain his actions after the car lost traction due to the icy conditions of the road, spinning around itself and narrowly missing an oncoming vehicle?

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Volvo Demo Center

Today I present photo report of the demo center Volvo, in Gothenburg. Tour for journalists held on the occasion of the premiere of the new Volvo FH.
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Life Can be Full of Surprises when You're Driving on Russian Roads

Come on, just admit it, there's no reason to be ashamed; you missed watching all those whacky videos from Russia on CarScoop while we were fighting against Google's devious bureaucratic operations the past few days.

So, to make up for it, we plunged into the depths of YouTube dodging the expected and looking for the unexpected – fear not, you'll soon see for yourself what we mean by that.

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Ghostly Foam Car Flabbergasts Aussie Cops in Queensland

A group of people including two police officers and onlookers who were standing in the middle of a road in the tourist resort township of Mooloolaba in Queensland, Australia, were caught off guard when what the originally thought was a wave of sea foam turned out to be a car in a…frothy disguise!

The surprise-ending footage was captured by Michel Bell who visited the area with his sister to watch the impressive natural phenomenon caused by a tropical cyclone in the area.

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How Do You Say Oops in Spanish? Chilean Bus Driver Plays "Hot" Movie by Mistake [NSFW]

A Chilean bus driver has a lot of explaining to do after he left an X-rated love movie playing on the on-board television screens of a bus packed with families.

In the video footage that has now gone viral on the web, we see a young man walking down the aisle checking the passengers (likely for tickets) with his back turned towards the displays.

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Count How Many Times this Driver Hit a Vehicle in 5 Seconds

The way we see it, there's only one of two things going on here with this driver: either he's more drunk than Lindsey Lohan floating unsurprised in a barrel of whiskey or he's crazier than a rabid dog.

There's no other explanation, because while you could say the driver of the white-colored station wagon (can you tell us the make and model?) was trying to make a quick getaway after smashing into the Nissan Juke when he hit the truck, the second time he crashed into it doesn't make any sense.

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Remember What Mom Said? Always Look Both Ways Before Crossing the Road…

Even as kids, we're taught by our parents and schoolteachers that we should always look both ways before crossing the road and never take chances. Better safe than sorry, as they say. Sadly, some adults still don't understand the concept.

A young woman in the city of Astrakhan in the southern European part of Russia, tried to dash across the road at the same time that a bus was coming from the other side.

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This is Not Something You Want to See in Front of You on a Highway….

We know what some of you may be thinking; "Ah, another crazy day in Russia". Well, if you are, you're wrong, because this dashcam footage was filmed on a highway in Las Vegas.

And while it was an extremely close call, the kind where if one minor detail would have been different, the person driving the vehicle would have been either seriously hurt or even killed, the retired police officer and former race car driver and airline pilot (among other things), who we come to know under his YouTube alias Sidewinder, lived to tell the tale.

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Watch This Driver Chase Down His Tow Truck

All motorists should make sure that their vehicles are secured if they are going to leave the wheel and jump out with the engine running, perhaps even more so if you happen to be a professional driver of a truck.

There's no way of knowing if this tow truck driver forgot to pull the handbrake, if there was a mechanical failure or something else that we can't see from the video, but he's bound to have a lot of explaining to do…especially to the owner of the blue SUV that looks like it may have sustained some damages.

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This is How Canadians Clear the Snow Off Their Roads

In some places, a little bit of salt and a pickup truck fitted with a plow will do fine to clear the roads when Mother Nature shakes her head and sprinkles her dandruff, but in certain areas, it's just won't do the trick, at least not in a timely manner.

That's when you need some heavy machinery to do all the hard work. If you have ever wondered how they do it, a YouTube user filmed a snow removal crew from Canada swiftly clearing up tons of snow with what could be one of the largest snow blowers we've seen working together with several dump trucks.

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China's BYD Wants to Build All-Electric Busses in the U.S.

The Chinese maker of all-electric vehicles that gained a lot of attention in 2008 when investor Warren Buffett bought a 10 percent stake in BYD for$230 million, is now actively looking to build an electric-bus assembly plant in the States.

Micheal Austin, vice president of BYD America, broke the news to WardsAuto, adding that the company has not yet decided on the location for the plant. "Clearly, there are a lot sensitive negotiations that must go on before any of that happens," said Austin.

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Rail Buff Films Train Crashing into a Water Truck in Utah, Amazingly, No One Hurt

Have you heard of the old saying of being "in the right place at the right time"? If anything else, this holds true for a Utah man who was filming trains in the city of Wellington in Carbon County this past Friday with his iPhone.

In the YouTube video's description, James Wood says he was recording video for his 4-year old son at 100 E. Railroad Avenue in Wellington when he captured footage of a train ripping through a water truck that was crossing the tracks at that precise moment.

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Russian Drivers Saved from Trucks Out of Control

In many parts of Russia, the winter weather has already kicked into full gear, with all that this means for the safety of drivers, or the lack thereof.

Today we bring you two separate incidents filmed in different places, but with a similar scenario that concerns heavily loaded trucks losing traction on the frozen roads.

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Chassis Truck

Chassis trucks in the world today, it is an elaborate set of technical mechanisms for communication between the cab, body and chassis while driving the truck.

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Holy Russian Luck! Driver and Passenger Make it Out Alive from Horrific Accident

True, Russian dashboard cameras have afforded us hundreds and hundreds of spine-tingling accidents over the years, but we cannot honestly remember any as shocking as this one, and at the same time, ending on a happy note.

Once again, the protagonist in this scene is driving a classic Lada / VAZ 2101 saloon.

We're not sure if the driver attempted a foolish overtake of if he was trying to avoid something on the road, but he drove between two busses in his lane and lost control of the RWD sedan crashing side first into a large truck on the other lane, which sent him flying into one of the busses (with the camera).

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Lucky or Talented? Russian Truck Driver Avoids Crash in Style

The jury is still out on whether the protagonist of our latest Russian offbeat video had lady luck on his side or if he's that good behind the wheel of a truck, but either way, the save was impressive, to say the least.

If you pay attention to the dashboard camera-sourced footage, at about seven seconds into the video, you can see an old (or new, it's the same thing anyway…) Lada Niva 4x4 legally entering the road from a side street.

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Hartmann Tuning Gives the Volkswagen Crafter Van Some Attitude

Some may be surprised to learn that there's actually a market for tuning purely professional vehicles like the Volkswagen Crafter commercial van, which is a sister model to the Mercedes-Benz and Dodge Sprinter twins.

Germany's Hartmann Tuning even went as far as to create a separate line for commercial vans appropriately called "Vansports".

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Awesome Time-Lapse Videos of the Endeavour Space Shuttle's Final Mission on the Streets of LA

After 20 years of service and 25 missions, NASA's fifth and final space worthy shuttle, the Endeavour, was finally retired last week.

The 85-ton space shuttle was hauled from the Los Angeles International Airport to its new home in the California Science Center. The distance it needed to travel was only 12 miles, but it was no trip to the park, that's for sure.

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Here's Why You Shouldn’t Give a Truck Driver the Finger…

We've already shown you the painful consequences of flipping off a Russian driving instructor, so how about we see what happens when you perform the same gesture to a truck driver in the world's largest country that covers more than an eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area?

The incident begins with an obnoxious driver of an older Audi A6 sedan illegally and dangerously overtaking a truck and then being a -insert whatever word works for you here- constantly slamming on the brakes.

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Let's Count How Many Times this Russian Driver Got Lucky

There's lucky, there's really lucky and then there's this driver, reportedly from Russia, which shouldn’t come to as a surprise to anyone.

What makes this incident so special is that driver avoided not, one, not two but three vehicles including a large truck without even a scratch to his (or her) car.

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