You recall how Toyota added a recorded sound of an engine to its Prius models because people thought it was creepy and dangerous for a car to move silently when it was in electric mode. But apparently they weren’t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/23/The-Rise-of-Fake-Engine-Noise/[http://youtu.be/TpgumObCkc0] (YouTube link)I’ve always thought that changing oil every 3,000 miles was just propaganda from oil companies, but I’d be a little nervous about going 7 to 10 thousand miles betwe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/Misconceptions-About-Driving/[http://youtu.be/zIL2GuG6Hok] (YouTube link)European car owners are confronted with the very real possibility that wild animals will invade and eat their vehicles. To combat this danger, engineers at Audi rigged a car wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/07/Weasels-Ripped-My-Car/Car wrecks are the number one cause of death for A... ...can City, tells us that a hundred years ago, when automobiles started to stake their territory on roads full of... ...s, more than 200,000 Americans had been killed by automobiles . Most of these fatalities were pedestrians in cit... ...and highways to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/10/Murder-Machines-Why-Cars-Will-Kill-30000-Americans-This-Year/[http://youtu.be/_ObE4_nMCjE] (YouTube link)Australian entrepreneur Steve Sammartino and Romanian teenager Raul Oaida teamed up to produce a full-size car made of LEGO bricks -and drive it down the street! The engines ru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/19/Full-size-LEGO-Car/Louise is a Toulouse goose that lives on Laura Grace Weldon's farm. She was a rescue goose, abandoned in a nature preserve. Louise led a relatively peaceful life on the farm with her friend Al the duck, until the day she...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/09/Goose-and-Honda-A-Love-Story/Gryffin Sanders of Golden, Colorado, was in the car with his younger brother being driven by their 74-year-old great-grandmother. The car was traveling at 60 mph when Darlene Nestor passed out!Gryffin saw the car start t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/06/10-year-old-Saves-Family-with-Mario-Kart-Skills/What car you drive says something about you -even if it isn't true. Car stereotypes have been around for decades, but every once in a while they change enough to need an update. Jalopnik made a humorous chart detailing h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/29/Revised-Automotive-Stereotypes/There are perks to enforcing the law in one of the most lavishly ostentatious cities in the world. The Dubai Police Department showing off their new patrol car, a Lamborghini Aventador that can do over 200 mph! The new c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/11/Lamborghini-Aventador-Police-Car/In a real-life version of the movie Speed, Frank Lecerf was forced to drive at top speed when his Renault Laguna, which was adapted for disabled drivers, went out of control. While running an errand in his home town of P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/14/Stuck-at-125mph-for-an-Hour/
