Taco Bell Partners with Lyft to Introduce “Taco Mode” Service
"Taco Mode" will allow Lyft passengers to redirect their driver to the nearest Taco Bell
There are plenty of reasons to call for an Uber or Lyft. There are also plenty of reasons to go to Taco Bell. With that said, one of the major reasons for both of these decisions is that you are probably drunk. Therefore, asking your ride home from the bar to stop by Taco Bell […]
Disgraced Taco Bell Exec Suing Uber Driver He Assaulted for $5 Mil
Former Taco Bell marketing executive Michael Golden had his life ruined one night in Newport Beach, California, when he was filmed drunkenly attacking his Uber driver, Edward Caban, who he is now suing for recording the incident.
Man Falls Asleep in Taco Bell Drive-Thru, Is Arrested
Taco Bell is known for being one of the top destinations for drunk people looking for some munchies at 3am. So it shouldn’t come as any surprise that Indiana University student Tyler Freimuth was recently arrested for falling asleep in his car in said drive-thru. Hopefully, he managed to order his tacos before his downfall. […]
Car News In the Rearview: Engaging Taco Mode and Banning Sexist Ads
Hello, and welcome to In the Rearview, where I, your auto news Yoda, show you the week’s car news in condensed form, because, judge me by my size, do you? First up, Britain has decided to jump on the banning-gas-and-diesel train like France, Norway, and India. However, rather than taking the aggressive target that Norway […]
Taco Truck to the Rescue in Seattle Jam
Being stuck in traffic is the absolute worst. Today in Seattle, a tanker truck carrying butane rolled over on I-5, which means that the roadway had to be shut down in both directions so that the very careful process of safely picking the truck up and setting its highly-flammable cargo to rights could begin. While […]
Toyota Tacoma Utility Package Reduces Price of Work Truck
The new Toyota Tacoma is one of the most affordable trucks money can buy. But if you’re looking for the most basic work truck available, chances are you don’t need the bells and whistles that come on even the base trim level of the Tacoma. Luckily for you, there is a secret option that’ll help […]
Moments in Car History: The First Drive-Thru
In the 1940s, America’s fastest food option was the drive-in. Like you see in various nostalgic movies, these restaurants had customers drive up and park, and then brought the food to them on a platter that clipped onto car windows. However, by the late ’40s, this system had been in use since the first drive-in opened […]
The Try Guys Take On Drunk Driving
In their latest series of videos, popular YouTube group The Try Guys are taking on four types of impaired driving: drunk, high, sleepy, and distracted.* The first video covering drunk driving was released this week, and the group brought their trademark humor to the situation while still educating their considerable audience about the dangers of […]
Opel Cascada Supreme Available Now (Tomatoes and Sour Cream Not Included)
If you have ever ordered from Taco Bell—probably late, maybe after a night out, possibly while in the backseat of someone else’s car trying to remember where half the night went and why there’s a 900-pound gorilla suddenly residing within the walls of your skull—you have probably found yourself wondering: what is the difference between […]
McDonald’s in Wales Creates Late Night “Walk-Thru” Option for Drunks, Threatens Concept of American Exceptionalism
A McDonald’s in Wales has opened up a 2:30-4:00 am “walk-thru” option for people that are too drunk to use the drive-thru, and I am outraged. Yes, outraged that the United Kingdom was the first to come up with such a quintessentially American idea. You see, recently McDonald’s has been making a valiant effort to […]
An Uber-Like Service Just for Women: Good Idea, or Bad Idea?
Uber has become more or less a household name lately, as its wild success has caused it to spread across the globe. As a peer-to-peer ride hailing app, it has provided extra money for drivers and a safe way home for those out for a night on the town. However, like a roadside fishstick stand […]
Uber Testing “Bop It!” Toy to Pacify Drunk Customers
Have you ever noticed that there’s a point when out on the town that a drunken person basically transforms into a giant, stubborn toddler? Yeah, Uber has, too. That’s why the transportation services giant has decided to test something new to pacify their drunken passengers—the childhood game “Bop It!” After a rash of crimes where […]
Suspect Transporting 16 Pounds of Meth Calls 911 to Complain About Passenger
In the biggest drug bust that police in Fort Morgan, Colorado, can remember, officers uncovered six tinfoil packages containing 16 total pounds of meth after one of the accused drug traffickers, a man named Jonathan Potzler, called 911 to claim there was a strange woman in his car in the Walmart parking lot who refused to […]
Lessons Learned Driving on Bald Tires
As I mentioned before, I am driving around a well-used ’07 Pontiac G6. About a month after my first major foray into diy car care, I found something out–in the rain, my car has gradually turned into a giant metal sled pulled by a dog with severe attention problems. I nearly slid sideways through an […]
8 Reasons the Drive-Thru Worker Hates You
These tips could help ease that look you get when you pull up to the window.
Drive-thru lanes at fast food chains are quickly becoming the best way to get the treat you want without having to wait in line. While there are many unspoken rules of drive-thru etiquette, it can be difficult to keep straight—until now. We’ve gathered eight of the most important rules to follow the next time you […]
Who Plays the Family of Tree Huggers in That Subaru Outback Commercial?
Have you seen that Subaru ad for the 2015 Outback that features a family of literal tree huggers taking a nostalgic trip to Woodstock? If so, then you might have wondered who plays the vaguely familiar mom character – or the hippie grandma, or the impressionable daughter, or the nondescript dad, for that matter. At […]
Shades of Lincoln-Mercury to Cali in Caddy’s NY Move
This week, GM confirmed that it will move Cadillac to New York in an effort to make it into an entity all its own and reinvigorate sputtering sales numbers. This move is not without precedent, however: Ford attempted to do the very same with Lincoln-Mercury in 1998, moving the division from Detroit to California in […]
Daria Radionova Ruins Perfectly Good CLS 350 With Swarovski Crystals
We’re quite sure that you’re familiar with a situation that follows along these lines: you’re out cruising the boulevard, perhaps on a grocery run or just out to pick up some Taco Bell, and you pull up alongside an expensive-looking luxury car with some terrible song blasting out of the windows (you can’t tell if […]