Stories about: fire

Lamborghini Gallardo Burns to Half a Crisp in Malaysia

23 Sep 2011, 17:30 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / There used to be a time when supercars were monsters with hearts of molten metal and tempers like fire. The German engineers came along and changed all that, or so we thought, but we’re please...

Ford GT Crashes and Burns, Driver Escapes

19 Sep 2011, 16:13 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We are dealing with what seems to be a miraculous escape here, as both the driver and the passenger of the car crash disaster you see in the adjacent video have survived. We wanted to tell you this ...

Renault Scenic Turns Fireball, Occupants Make Lucky Escape

4 Aug 2011, 13:17 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Some don’t believe in luck, seeing it as one person’s lack of control over a situation, but the members of a family who managed to escape minutes before their car turns to a giant ball o...

Chevrolet Volt Bursts in Flames. Twice

19 Apr 2011, 10:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The electric vehicle world is taking hit after hit these days. After Nissan's Leaf was plagued by a problem at restart (a problem which prompted Nissan into announcing some type of recall, the ...

Southbound Lanes of British M1 Motorway to Stay Closed

18 Apr 2011, 09:12 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Highways Agency had hoped to reopen one southbound lane overnight and a second later, but they remain closed today between junctions 1 and 4 ''until further notice''. The sev...

British M1 Motorway Closed North of London Due to Fire

15 Apr 2011, 15:05 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A section of the M1 was shut this morning as around 40 firefighters tackled a blaze at a scrapyard under the motorway. This comes as as result of a massive fire, which has spread to a scrapyard cont...

China Stops Jeep Wrangler Imports on Fire Hazard

11 Apr 2011, 06:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When a problem is discovered with one vehicle or another in the US, the car maker responsible for the faulty product is forced to conduct a recall. In China, now one of the most important auto marke...

Fire Reduces Muscle Car Collection to Dust

28 Mar 2011, 10:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's nothing more disturbing for car lovers than to see a bunch of vehicles destroyed by one calamity or another. The sadness we all feel when seeing such disasters is bigger the more valuab...

1974 Lamborghini Espada Explodes, Takes House with It

28 Mar 2011, 09:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Having a vintage vehicle burn up in front of your eyes is sad enough, but having the fire that engulfed the car burn through quite a valuable real estate is even sadder. Regardless, this is exactly ...

A Fireblade Born of Fire

24 Feb 2011, 07:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are humans out there who possess a certain set of skills others can only dream of. Sets of skills which, for most, seem like a waste of them, but which for the people who have them mean more t...

Felipe Massa's Ferrari Catches Fire in Valencia

3 Feb 2011, 11:17 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Felipe Massa did not have the start of his dreams with the new Ferrari F150 in Valencia, as his 2011 challenger caught fire due to an oil leak in the early stages of the Thursday session. Having ...

Two 2011 Saab 9-5 Saloons Catch Fire

16 Dec 2010, 07:05 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The 2011 Saab 9-5 is an extremely important vehicle for the Swedish automotive producer, as it sits at the core of the brand’s new identity. However, it seems that not everything is going acco...

Tata Nano to Burn No More

12 Nov 2010, 09:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Remember how earlier this year the cheapest car in the world, the Indian Tata Nano, developed a nasty habit of catching fire more or less out of the blue? Well, forget about it, it's not gonna ...

Another Tata Nano Goes Up In Flames

28 Aug 2010, 13:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world's cheapest car, the Indian built Tata Nano, is continuing to stay in the spotlights, even if at times for reasons it would rather not. Some of you might remember that back in October ...

Ferrari to Begin 458 Italia Recall [Rumor]

28 Aug 2010, 10:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The fires which have wreaked havoc among the brand new 458 Italia models is likely to prompt a recall made by the Italian manufacturer, shortly after news of Ferrari launching an investigation into ...

Ferrari 458 Italia Fire in China

25 Aug 2010, 06:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / By now, we must admit we have lost track of how many Ferrari 458 Italias we've seen going up in flames so, if that's fine with you, we'll give up trying to count them. What is obvious...

Strangers Save Man from Burning Car

18 Aug 2010, 14:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A very dramatic car crash took place on Sunday in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley area, an accident which if it weren't for an exemplary ad hoc rescue mission would have come and gone j...

Russians Escape Wildfire by Car

5 Aug 2010, 14:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Perhaps the most affected country in the world by this year's heatwave, Russia is still battling temperatures which have become the highest since recording began 130 years ago. And the worse is...

Flaming Ferrari 458 Italia Photos

30 Jul 2010, 10:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Some one week ago, we brought you a very disturbing news of a Ferrari 458 Italia which suffered a spontaneous combustion somewhere in France. At the time, all we had to show you were a bunch of phot...

Ferrari 458 Italia Turns to Ash

21 Jul 2010, 14:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / From time to time, we are forced to bring you news about more or less exotic cars that get torched for one reason or another. Fortunately for those faint-of-heart, in most cases we are unable to pre...