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You know, it’s not just people that wear costumes on Halloween–you filthy humanist!–cars, vans, buses and motorcycles gotta get their “trick or treat” on too. And we’re not just talking about the dog-mobile from Dumb & Dumber, there are innumerable real-world examples of vehicles dressing up as other things (no, not Transformers). Cool Material has [...]

Today is Name Your Car Day, a truly ridiculous occasion that we can only hope will soon be replaced by Name Your Bike Day (ours is called Kandinsky). In the meantime, though, we kind of appreciate the idea of treating cars like boats and giving them names, it makes something so hard and mechanical a [...]

Our rebellions actions as kids were never quite as high-profile or bad-ass as car theft or driving dangerously. Of course, nowadays we could probably pass such things off as some kind of displaced and confused environmental activism, but that doesn’t seem to work for the youthful offenders in BuzzFeed’s listicle of 10 Kids Stealing Cars. [...]

We used to dream of taking a summer off, buying an old Volkswagen van, giving it a totally rad paint job and cruising around the continent for a few months. As you might imagine, that particular dream never came to pass – the closest we ever got to driving a VW van was when a [...]

Not to brag or anything, but at the end of our first driving test we pretty much had it in the bag, but as we pulled up to the testing center the instructor asked us to back into the only remaining spot in the parking lot, which was impossibly narrow. We totally pulled it off, [...]

As General Motors continues to repurpose and shape-shift in order to remain competitive, how creative are they really getting? Presumably they’ll still be manufacturing cars, instead of shifting to bikes, trains or some other more sustainable and long-lasting solution. We imagine they’re also sticking to mostly gas-powered vehicles, instead of actually doing something new like [...]

Remember that Rob Schneider film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalow, in which Schneider’s home aquarium expert is left in charge of a vacationing male sex worker’s massive fish tank? No? Well, you’re lucky, but suffice to say that within the context of that film, the palatial fish tank served as another symbol of the mustachioed sex [...]

When we were kids (like, two years ago) we had this amazing book of cutaways that featured diagrams showing the interior mechanisms of pyramids, submarines, opera houses, tanks, space shuttles and such. It was huge, colorful and chockablock full of facts, and we were pretty convinced it was the coolest book in the world – [...]

We’ve been planning to buy a car for years now, but every time we’re about to pick a make and model we get really freaked out by what seems the much more important decision: what kind of license plate to get. Every state has dozens, and even then one could easily travel to a neighboring [...]

We’re somewhat obsessed with pretty video art, even when said art is enabled by an evil corporation. That’s why we have no qualms about ogling the stunning results produced when a huge company throws buckets of money at a talented director or ad agency. To waste away this Friday afternoon in dreamy bliss, we invite [...]