Videos

Two things terribly wrong with this video. 1) With plenty of warning why ignore the flashing lights and closed booms? 2) After realizing the monumental cock-up why not bash through the flimsy barrier and get out the way? Watching a train approach at 160km/h with you directly in its...

An old soul trapped in a modern world, today is the last day of Land Rover Defender production. With tears close to forming in the corner of our our eyes we take you down the slow-paced production line for one final time. It is here where Land Rover has given so many of...

With the 2016 Dakar rally over and the buggy-style vehicle clearly unstoppable comes this timely video of a 600kW Beetle-bug terrorizing the streets of San Diego. With a supercharged V8 hanging out the back  and enough suspension travel to soak up those airborne moments, the VW Beetle  restomod leaves a...

We’ve seen small engines before but they’re always constructed of the same stuff – metal. Which means they’re heavy and require milling, drilling and other physical tortures to work. But this working paper V8 uses air fed from a balloon to make a charming little noise with no carbon emissions. Maybe...

A Jaguar XJ220 drifting across a wet field. A Ferrari F50 involved in a tug-of-war… These are all videos from Tax The Rich – a mysterious group of wealthy petrolheads who don’t mind taking the wrappers off their exotic supercars. We’ve waited a while for their new video (a...

The international launch of the new 911 is currently underway at Kyalami – a tempting reason to bunk work and try sneak through security –  and here’s the first bit of full length footage. The on-board camera provides a good idea of the circuit’s revisions, the racing lines and some insight into the sound and...

The entire motoring world knows that this week is the international media launch of the Focus RS and we have it on pretty good authority that the latest RS will arrive in SA around May. In the meantime here’s a famous driver – who isn’t Ken Block –  explaining the...

Probably better that this stranded truck driver wasn’t looking when another 18-wheeler stormed by mere millimeters from causing a gruesome death....

Bravo Volkswagen on this ad for the company’s new trailer assist function. Hidden within the walls of the trailer sits the driver and the VW Passat estate essentially becomes the unmanned, free-wheelin follower. Throw in a dozen hidden cameras to catch the confused looks and you have a winning...