1 Aug 2012, 10:34 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We hear voices coming from the auto industry, saying that people need to stop putting chrome wraps on their cars. While we do agree that it’s a bit much, this is mainly due to the novelty effe...
1 Aug 2012, 08:51 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We naturally think animals are stupid because they don’t understand how an iPhone works and are always cleaning themselves with their tongues. But they really aren’t that far off. We&...
1 Aug 2012, 08:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We have said it before and we’ll say it again: overtaking needs to be done with extreme care, even when it takes place on a highway. For example, in countries where people drive on the right s...
31 Jul 2012, 10:04 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We here at autoevolution strongly promote safe driving and we post crash videos to show you what and how to do whatever it takes not to crash. However, it seems that not many people from Russia are ...
31 Jul 2012, 09:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / This video illustrates the danger of having cars of varying body strengths on the road at the same time. The Lada, a car with 1960s technology (not the best trait of the period) gets hit violently n...
31 Jul 2012, 09:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that just getting out of one’s car, grabbing whatever is at hand and hitting the driver who cut you off repeatedly is no longer in fashion in Russia. Apparently, people are now gettin...
31 Jul 2012, 08:32 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Drifting is now a cool motorsport where teams from across the world can compete. But it started out at the feet of mount Fuji in Japan as a semi-illegal activity. The legend stuck and of course, eve...
30 Jul 2012, 15:34 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Russia is proving a strange but endlessly amusing place. And while we’ve only been able to discover their bad driving habits for a short period, the fact that just about everybody has a dash c...
30 Jul 2012, 12:22 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Right as we speak, a Volvo engineer is preoccupied with making the world a better place for us all, by turning your family saloon or SUV into a frugal hybrid or plug-in hybrid. That person definitel...
30 Jul 2012, 09:44 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / You must be pretty familiar with the tons of dash cam footage that hits the web from Russia every day by now and you probably know that most people install these cameras in their cars to prevent bei...
30 Jul 2012, 09:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Why do some drivers just choose to ignore traffic lights, despite the fact that they know a crash is inevitable if they do so? What goes through their head when they see the red light and cars just ...
30 Jul 2012, 09:23 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Riding a scooter or bike through heavy traffic, which is made up nearly entirely of cars (and some trucks and buses), is a dangerous affair, no matter how attentive the rider is. However, if the dri...
30 Jul 2012, 08:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Have you ever lost a wheel while driving along? Of course you haven’t, because you are careful to always have the wheelnuts fastened up properly - it’s common sense, after all (too bad i...
30 Jul 2012, 08:01 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / God gave us gasoline from the bodies of the dinosaurs, and we saw that it was good. We then created engine out of cold, hard steel, and tornados inspired us to force more air into the engine. Whe...
27 Jul 2012, 16:32 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / You know that really old game called Frogger, where you had to get your frog across the road safely, dodging incoming cars that were traveling at different speeds. Kids in the 80’s lost endles...
27 Jul 2012, 13:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Animals seem to be more resilient than we give them credit for. Take this buffalo which has no trouble in causing damage to a car passing by, or this Russian sheep who gets hit by a car, then spins ...
27 Jul 2012, 12:52 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Whenever Bruce Banner, the scientist who wanted to unlock the formula for a super-solder, get angry, he becomes the Hulk. An accident resulting in prolonged exposure to gamma radiation (fictional), ...
27 Jul 2012, 12:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that the ‘elk test’ (or ‘moose test’) should also be carried out in Russia, as there seem to be a multitude of encounters between cars and moose or elk. Take this vi...
27 Jul 2012, 12:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Despite weakening economic conditions in Europe, Renault managed to perform relatively well in the first half of the year. The group delivered 1.33 million units, down 3.3% on first-half 2011. Low s...
27 Jul 2012, 09:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The previous generation Opel Astra sedan, a car not renowned for its stability and great chassis (quite the opposite, in fact) causes a very serious crash on a two-laned Russian road. The driver att...