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You know, if we were to train our pets and barnyard animals to pilot any kind of vehicle, it would probably be a skateboard, or perhaps a homemade submarine. It certainly would not be a loud, dangerous and, frankly, obnoxious motorcycle. We’re apparently in the minority on this one, as Holytaco’s listicle of 25 Animals [...]

Exactly 140 years ago today, a prototype for a pneumatic train system was unveiled in New York City–built secretly, no less!–running for one block underneath Broadway between Murray and Warren Streets. Evidently, despite the cool, super-quick rides pneumatics promised, the idea never really caught on outside the world of sci-fi narratives like Futurama or The [...]

American movies of the 70s, with all their stoic male leads living on the open road and the wrong side of the law, were probably the best period for the carefully choreographed car chase. Or at least the most prolific. Accordingly, there are lots and lots to pick over whenever one attempts to assess which [...]

For years and years we were incapable of riding in hot air balloons, which was a serious problem growing up as we did in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, where everyone gets around by hot air balloon because the roads are terrible and windy. It had nothing to do with a fear of heights, [...]

Of all the strange vehicles in the world–including stealth boats, solar-powered planes and homemade submarines–there probably isn’t one that we’re less interested in piloting than the snowmobile. That being said, for a long time we didn’t understand just how fast they can go. Then one overtook us on the highway. Still, judging by Epic Carnival’s [...]

After the first time we saw an epic escalator FAIL on YouTube, we’ve done our best to avoid those mechanical jaws of death. Convenience be damned, we’ll take the stairs! That said, we’re glad some people continue to use escalators, because their spectacular on-camera spills keep us entertained. Urlesque’s listicle of The Internet’s 10 Worst [...]

It’s a sad state of affairs when blockbuster actors are so utterly uncharismatic that they can be overshadowed by a motor vehicle. Or perhaps it’s the other way around. Maybe it’s a credit to Hollywood prop departments and stunt drivers that they can give a vehicle such deeply felt emotive qualities that we’re more rapt [...]

Did you know that November is National Model Railroad Month (NMRM) here in the U.S. of A.? No? Well, how could you, really, unless you rode one every day or so. Most of us only use the model railroad very occasionally, and it’s generally an occasion for bedazzled wonder. Daily model railroad commuters have it [...]

There was a time, not all that long ago, when we imagined most of our life would be spent living in a beautiful train, airplane or space shuttle that was finished with only the most elegant and extravagant furniture and gadgets, and from which we would run our global resistance movement while evading the evil [...]

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 [...]