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When you've got a supercharged, tubbed and roll-caged Holden Ute, burnouts, donuts and general hoonulence are inevitable, but this... this is hooning art. It seems you have to go to Australia for the real high-proof stuff, as this starts out simple and safely enough with a gross display of horsepower at a sanctioned local race track, but then the driver decides on a donut, and things go horribly, awesomely wrong as the car flips on it's side — twice — and then drives away to the roar of the crowd. Truly, we have much to learn from from this advanced civilization. ( Hat tip to Tim! ) newVideoPlayer("/holden-flip.flv", 506, 423,""); [ Youtube ]
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newVideoPlayer("/Bashed_Benz_494.flv", 506, 423,""); When you bash the Benz into some unyielding object and the entire left front is a mangled mess, what do you do? Why, you recognize that the right side is still fine, which means you can still (sort of) control the car, and you keep going , of course! We're impressed by the high speed these Euro-hoons manage to sustain here, but it appears that long-term roadworthiness may have been compromised. [ Arbroath , via BoingBoing ]
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newVideoPlayer("/PorscheCGTdriftdubai.flv", 494, 411,""); Dubai is no longer just a quaint desert outpost where car thieves merely steal police BMWs . Nope, the lack of proper law enforcement oversight is now showing up in more edge-of-the-seat ways. Because although taking a Porsche Carrera GT out for donuts and making sideways laps around a roundabout seems like a pretty good way to thrash a V10-powered Stuttgart supercar, it probably doesn't help so much with the law and order. [via autogespot ]
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newVideoPlayer("DFsaturnjump.flv", 494, 400,""); Another day, another beater car hooned at Dave's Farm. Sure it's not as impressive as the Honda 666 , or the Buick Halfmaster , but who doesn't love seeing a car catching air? It may be a lowly '90s Saturn, but the flat black and flames make up for it. [ Dave's Farm ]
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newVideoPlayer("swedeburnout.flv", 494, 400,""); If you thought the Swedish limo drifting was awesome, you're really gonna like this. It's an annual illegal burnout competition held in Stockholm, and the contestants don't hold anything back. Ripping tires to shreds? That's nothing. Pour down some gasoline and bring on the flames! [ h/t to Bo at sportbilen.se ! ]
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newVideoPlayer("LimoDrift.flv", 494, 395,""); What's cooler than driving sideways? Driving sideways in a limousine! Thing is, as these guys found out, it's not as easy as you might think. Even on a water-soaked skid-pad, that stretched wheelbase is hard to balance with opposite lock. Points for effort, though we would've like to have seen a "Just Married" sign and some tin cans being dragged along off the back. [ sportbilen.se , h/t to Bo! ]
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newVideoPlayer("ZAZ_Donuts2_476.flv", 494, 410,""); We've seen Russian hoons roll a ZAZ and we've seen them smash a ZAZ into a tree . But how about taking the little air-cooled, 26-horse Russian car and adding another 150 or so horsepower? Excellent idea! Of course, when you build such a Zaporozhets, a certain amount of hoonage seems inevitable.
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newVideoPlayer("cnn-mowertruck.flv", 492, 300,""); CNN has been running this video of a pretty standard, run-of-the-mill highway chase, but what makes it more hilarious and hoon-like is that the driver is hauling a lone, zero-turn radius mower on a trailer. He does a fairly good job driving that truck with the trailer at high speeds, until the mower gets loose and causes him to jackknife the truck. Oh the irony. [ CNN via Toolmonger ]
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newVideoPlayer("Car-Soccer.flv", 463, 387,""); Japan is just the gift that keeps on giving, from kei cars to lovable but bizarre concepts like the the Toyota i-Real , but it's the extracurriculars which make for today's auto amusement. Sure drifting Previas are sexy, but car soccer is a ballet of crushing metal and gigantic balls. How does it work? Take all the rules of regular soccer and play the game with cars. We'll admit the judges seem pretty lax on handing out penalties, and it looks more like a sneaky way to have a demolition derby, but it does look like a lot of laughs. We took the liberty to clip out a section of footage from a game and the whole game is available below — if you're into that kind of thing. First Half (~8 minutes) Second Half (~7 minutes) [ Youtube Part 1 and Youtube Part 2 , via About Cars ]
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newVideoPlayer("Porsche911RingCrash_gawker.flv", 463, 387,""); Individuals like driving around the Nürburgring because of the challenge it presents. For instance, you might be coming around a corner with a bit too much speed, correct, then correct again and then end up tires-up waiting for the 100€ wrecker while a couple of smartass mates make quips about how much the different parts of your 911 GT3 will go for on eBay. In this case, the challenge is explaining to your insurance agency what happened. Maybe this unlikely driver can tell them he/she was trying to catch Sabine Schmidt . That's legit, right? [ YouTube ]
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newVideoPlayer("suby-jump.flv", 463, 387,""); If only it snowed more down in Hazzard County, Georgia, I'm sure the Duke Boys would have had as much fun as Zach did in this Subaru. This car was supposedly bought with the sole intention of performing a 68-foot snow jump. Mission accomplished! The little-Subie-that-could manages to gain some air time and doesn't kill anyone. Cooter would have been impressed. Them Subies, them Subies... Who needs a freaking '69 Charger named after a defeated Virginian militarist, anyway? [ MySpaceTV ]
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newVideoPlayer("hoon-traffic-reporter.flv", 463, 387,""); It's debatable whether a traffic reporter could be slapped with the hoon label, particularly if she's not even in a car. but in this case she is very deserving. The video in question is from a Friday, and not only does traffic girl not sympathize with whatever anxiety viewers might be experiencing as far as pre-weekend snarls and jams go, she decides to throw it all in their faces by... well, just watch the video and see what she decides to do. Words fail me. Regardless, that's no way to start the day. Then again, it's New Jersey, so we probably shouldn't expect anything better. It's definitely some hooning, though. [ Funnieststuff ]
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newVideoPlayer("car-lift-hoons.flv", 463, 387,""); I remember back in the day when I was a young lad first learning how to drive a manual transmission. My father repeated one essential learning point to me over and over: "Son, treat your parking brake like your [colorful term for a part of the male anatomy]--always grab it, touch it and most importantly, use it." And to this date I have followed those guidelines and never yet had to deal with a runaway vehicle. These hoons, on the other hand, haven't followed my old man's wisdom. Such a simple thing, so easy to overlook. I guess they could always claim a wonky throttle. [ Neatorama ]
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newVideoPlayer("MinivanTrainCrash_gawker.flv", 463, 387,""); Today's Hoon of the Day comes to us from NBC's Today Show and the little city of Hinsdale, IL. Here's what happened. At about 5:42 p.m. on Monday, 72-year-old Franciszek Chudzik drove over a train crossing in downtown Hinsdale and attempted to make a left turn onto the third set of tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe line, according to witnesses. The same witnesses claim they next saw Chudzik get stuck on the tracks -- as a '96 Plymouth Voyager is want to do -- and unable to move his van off the tracks, he then got out, put the keys in his pocket and walked off. But wait, it gets better. Reporters approached emergency personnel, asking about the condition of the driver. "I am the driver of the car," Chudzik told one reporter while chuckling. The reporters noted the 72-year-old smelled of alcohol and wobbled when he walked. In a move that was no surprise to those on scene, Chudzik...
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newVideoPlayer("BulldozerWheeliePop_gawker.flv", 475, 376); Who knew hoonage with construction equipment could be so much fun? Actually, we kinda did. So basically what you need to do to get a bulldozer front end loader up on just two of its four wheels is to load up the shovel with as much dirt as humanly possible, raise the lift arm right about as high as you can take it, go really fast....and then Stop ! You've just taken a loader to the limits. Hopefully you didn't take it one step beyond the limits because, well, then you'll be explaining why your CAT is sitting cab-smack against the ground.
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