Samsara refers to the cycle of birth and rebirth as professed by Buddhism, Hinduism and other similar religions. It's also the name of an interesting album from Tom Maxwell, formerly of the Squirrel Nut Zippers and winner of slight fame for his commercially successful and often used song "Hell" whic...

The enthusiasm over the Buick Grand National Hot Wheels has us wondering: what's your favorite toy car? Growing up we loved a good Matchbox or Hot Wheels car. A copy of Gran Turismo was great, and everyone loves an R/C/ car, but it's hard to top what a small toy car can do to a young person's imagin...

The Vehicle Information Number (VIN) plate on cars is a clever way to communicate everything about a car in a simple, hard-to-duplicate format. Below, we show you how to decode any vehicle's 17-digit......

Ferrari used the Geneva Motor Show to unveil the Ferrari 599 HGTE, a modified Ferrari 599 GTB designed to help owners believe they cab lap the namesake Fiorano Circuit like Michael Schumacher. galleryPost('ferrari599gtbhgte', 4, 'Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano HGTE); As expected, the 599 GTB Handling GT Ev...

If you watched as much Top Chef: New York as most of us did, you became familiar with Finnish ex-pat Stefan Richter and his phallic head. We're going to save the spoilers, feel free to read here if you want to know what happened, but Stefan made it into the finals. From the beginning, you knew he wo...

Dozens of luxury cars in Berlin have been torched since January by a group of disgruntled Germans. Mercedes, BMWs and Porsches have all been targets. Gallery of ze literally carpocalyptic destruction below. So why is this happening? Like ze French, it's ze world economy! Germany's once-booming econo...

In most college towns you can't go ten feet without seeing a Red Bull Mini, one of a fleet of marketing vehicles. But what's the best promotional vehicle? There are many weird and wonderful repurposings of vehicles into rolling advertisements (check out post on weird marketing vehicles), but it's ha...

The 1,100-year-old Vatopedi monastery on Greece's Mount Athos is inaccessible by land and constantly threatened by forest fires. Sounds like the perfect job for a Unimog fire truck. The famous monastery is an important orthodox pilgrimage site, isolated on the Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece....

In a dream world we all would own cars we love forever, like Hubert, but sometimes crap happens. What's the worst car you've ever owned? We surveyed everyone up this morning and it turns out Ben had......

Though we're not tractorlopnik, it's impossible to ignore the agricultural hotness of the New Holland NH2 hydrogen fuel cell tractor. It makes us want to plow so hard. The concept behind the NH2 is......