OHH! FIRE! HOW BEAUTIFUL.

Car:
2007 BMW M5

Description:
Engine fire on the highway. Burned to a crisp

Location:
M7 Highway, Hungary

Imagine this was YOUR car.

Car:
2005 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution

Description:
Crashed at 120 mph.

Location:
Mexico City, Mexico

GM Bankruptcy News Video

If you’re too lazy to read the “story” version, just watch this.

Cops: Driver kills man, hits 7 cars in Bronx.. I feel really bad for kid. Dad protects child.

Police say a man walking his young son across a street was mowed down and killed by a driver who bashed into seven cars as he tore through a Bronx neighborhood.

The driver is in police custody after the string of crashes Sunday on Gun Hill Road.

Police say the driver got into an argument in a restaurant parking lot and drove off shortly before 4 p.m., hitting a parked car and pushing it into another parked vehicle.

Police say the driver slammed into the 36-year-old man as he walked with his boy about a half-mile away. The father died at the scene. The 6-year-old child wasn’t hurt.

USAIN BOLT’S CAR WRECKED. HOLY CRAP!

Car:

2008 BMW M3

Description:
Flipped over by olympic track champion Usain Bolt. He was speeding on a highway when he lost control. Luckily, he and his passenger were not hurt.

Location:
Jamaica

EXTREMELY PAINFUL…

Car:
2005 Porsche Cayenne Turbo

Description:
Car went around corner at around 80 mph in the rain. Driver lost control around the turn, hit the curb on the side of the road. The car flipped over and crushed 3 trees after being stopped by a fourth. Two passengers inside crawled out of the car only to see the car had caught on fire. Fire department quickly followed.

Location:
San Diego, CA

OUCH… AUDI R8 Wrecked…

Car:
2008 Audi R8

Description:
Driving at about 90 mph, front wheel exploded and car started to spin uncontrollably, hitting two metal barriers head first.

Location:
Dijon, France

Honda to Expand Hybrid Lineup to Compete With Toyota

Honda Motor Co., Japan’s second- largest carmaker, plans to expand the number of hybrid vehicles it offers domestically to compete with Toyota Motor Corp.’s best-selling Prius.

The carmaker will bring out a hybrid version of the Fit car next year and the hybrid CR-Z sports coupe in February, Chief Executive Officer Takanobu Ito, told reporters today in Tokyo.

The new vehicles will give Tokyo-based Honda four hybrids in its lineup. Toyotaintroduced its third-generation Prius in May, overtaking Honda’s hybrid Insight as the best-selling gasoline-electric car in Japan.

“They’re expanding aggressively in hybrids,” said Yoshihiro Okumura, who helps manage the equivalent of $365 million at Tokyo-based Chiba-gin Asset Management Co. “Once the U.S. market starts to pick up, they’ll be well-positioned.”

Honda expects global sales to drop 8.7 percent this fiscal year ending in March to 3.21 million vehicles, compared with 3.52 million units last fiscal year.

In Japan, where Honda has introduced its new Insight hybrid, sales may drop 0.2 percent to 555,000 units. Sales in North America, its biggest market, may fall 9.8 percent to 1.35 million vehicles.

Industrywide sales in the U.S. may reach 10.5 million units in 2009, Executive Vice President Koichi Kondo said on April 28. That compares with an annual rate of 9.1 million units in February, the lowest since 1981.

Honda gained 1.9 percent to 2,400 yen as of 1:24 p.m. in Tokyo trading.

GM Emerges from the Rubble of Bankruptcy. Now What?

This is the news of GM’s Bankruptcy.

GM returned from the black hole of bankruptcy today with promises of impending change in its corporate structure and products. The company’s press release is, as expected, filled with nonspecific ideas like “a fresh lineup of Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC cars, trucks and crossovers, each with leading-edge designs and technologies that matter to both consumers and the environment” and a new focus on “customers, cars and culture.” In other words, GM will actually pay attention to the fact that it needs to deal with changing technologies and trends in the car world.

But that’s not all. GM is also apparently moving ahead with a range of energy-saving technologies such as biofuels, fuel cells, and hybrids. It is also, as we know, focusing much of its energy on the plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, expected to retail for $40,000 (not including tax incentives). There are ambitious ideas, but the Volt isn’t expected to be profitable until the second generation, and the company is already lagging far behind Honda and Toyota in the hybrid technology arena. Whether GM can catch up in time to grab a piece of the hybrid and PHEV market remains to be seen.

One short-term, practical idea on the agenda: GM may initiate a partnership with eBay to allow customers to bid for vehicles online at pre-determined prices. At the same time, GM will cut its dealer network from 6,000 locations to 3,600. The move will let the company keep prices on its cars low, as dealers usually take a cut of profits.

And perhaps as a result of the media outcry, GM has denied any plans to change its iconic blue logo to green. This in itself is a good start; after decades of ignorance, GM might finally be listening to what people are saying.

Transformers 2 Cars.

This movie has added a new generation of cars. The Chevy Camaro got a face lift.