Hiding in plain sight in Westwood, Massachusetts, a predator lurks. It stalks the area around East Street. Experts have noted that it stands at 10 and a half feet tall, only seems to eat a few times per year, and struck, with devastating effect, on August 20th. Avoid Other Predators: Summer Safety Advice The police…
The Dodge Charger Pursuit Experience will give police officers the chance to see what the Charger Pursuit is like for a police car It’s nice to put a vehicle through its paces before your purchase it—especially when that vehicle happens to be a police car. Fiat Chrysler understands this, which is why FCA Fleet Operations,…
Imagine a 1970 Dodge Charger like this with a 700-horsepower engine from the 2015 Charger model How do you make a 1970 Dodge Charger even better? Merge it with the 2015 Charger, of course—and then sell it to raise money for a charity. This is exactly what one Canadian native is doing. After coming to…
Photo: Ohio Department of Transportation A gasoline tanker was involved in a head-on crash with a car going the wrong way on south-bound I-75 in Dayton on Sunday, leading to a fiery explosion and a large plume of black smoke. The video below is courtesy of WHIO. At around 4:45pm, police began receiving reports of…
Photo Courtesy: Linda Tanner This is not a great summer to be a car owner in bear country. In June, a man in British Columbia woke up to a trashed Lexus interior thanks to a member of the Ursidae family. This month, a bear in Jefferson County, Colorado decided it wanted to chill out in…
“Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, there’s a heart (there’s a heart), a hand to hold ontoooooo…” Everyone loves a good dose of nostalgia to take them back to the “good ‘ole days,” even if that means going way, way back in time. September 22nd marks the 30th anniversary of the classic family show Full House….
Who doesn’t wish they drove the Gadgetmobile? Photo: DIC Entertainment Inspector Gadget was a wacky television show with fun characters, quotable lines, and–of course–cool gadgets. It’s not the best-written cartoon of its time, but it had the right amount of charm and humor to be a hit. Debuting in 1983 and running for 86 episodes, Inspector…
These tire thieves were wanted: tread or alive Photo: NBC New York Everyone can appreciate a nice new Mercedes-Benz. However, two thieves in Brooklyn appreciated it a little too much after they stole the tires off of a brand new Mercedes-Benz GLA250 SUV. According to NBC New York, Brooklyn residents Anthony Colon and Julian Soto…
BMW emergency vehicles: To Serve, Protect, and Be Fine as Hell It’s highly unlikely that many people have any particular interest in traveling in an emergency vehicle (that is, unless they are an emergency worker). Nobody thinks “gee, I’d really like to ride in an ambulance today, so what can I do to expedite that…
Four presumably drunk men looking for a unique joyride just brought a whole new meaning to the words “car pool.” These daring and innovative lawbreakers turned an unregistered BMW convertible into a literal BMW car pool (you know, one with water and not just an extra passenger crammed into the back seat) just last weekend. The adventurous voyagers…
Monty Python’s John Cleese is a comedy legend, and one of his most famous characters is Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers. The show aired in the 1970s, and has lived on through an extensive collection of hilarious YouTube videos posted by the BBC. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, educate yourself because you’re…
A BAT MOBILE!? 🦇🚘 #Gotham pic.twitter.com/jqZpKNecEa — Gotham (@Gotham) April 13, 2018… Subaru is not wasting its time with its commitment to caring for… Google Maps adds Snakes game in app for April Fools’ Day https://t.co/ADCgGOZgIQ… You can now order the Ford Ranger in a new mean package… A year ago, the first deaths in…
Well, folks, I am distraught. The time that I have dreaded since… Saudi Arabia is on our radar here at The News Wheel particularly… You have heard a fair amount from we editors of The News… Two years ago, GM told the world that it was working on… During the school year, school buses driving…
Road trips are one of the best—and often the cheapest—ways to get… When I was shopping for my first car, I remember my mother… Buying a car is stressful. Not only is it a major financial… It’s no secret that digital marketing is quickly becoming the go-to marketing… It’s no secret that the automotive industry…
On Sunday night, a self-driving Uber vehicle in Tempe, Arizona, struck a woman, Elaine Herzberg, who was walking her bicycle across the road. She died after being taken to the hospital. In the few days after the crash, the local police department has been reviewing the video footage and hasn’t released it to the public….
Here at The News Wheel, we talk a lot about the Nissan Foundation when discussing Nissan’s work in the community. The Foundation was established in 1992 in response to the Rodney King trial verdict reaction in Los Angeles. Nissan’s leaders wanted to have an easy way to celebrate the diversity of America, help support community…
The 2019 Dodge Charger has earned award-winning attention from the experts at Kelley Blue Book, who have just honored the four-door muscle car with the title of Best Resale Value in the fullsize car segment. Check Out: The upgrades to the 2019 Dodge Charger lineup “The Charger blends its unique style with performance into a…
The 2019 Dodge Charger has earned award-winning attention from the experts at Kelley Blue Book, who have just honored the four-door muscle car with the title of Best Resale Value in the fullsize car segment. Check Out: The upgrades to the 2019 Dodge Charger lineup “The Charger blends its unique style with performance into a…
While the rest of the automotive industry is moving forward with high-tech hybrids and self-driving cars, Dodge is keeping it old school—and it looks like it’s working for the American carmaker. Through a combination of high-octane power and classic styling, the 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat has made a lasting impression on the industry. So…
Photo: © General Motors Now is a very sensitive time for self-driving cars, as fatal crashes involving a self-driving Uber or a Tesla operating on Autopilot (which isn’t a self-driving system but seems doomed to be viewed as such) have shaken what little trust the American public had in the technology. Looking at America: Would you take…
Delivered your car, sign here If you’re a fan of classic cars, or a car enthusiast in general, you know that a 1967 Cadillac Coupe DeVille should be handled with care. This vintage coupe is drool-worthy when in the right condition, and one lucky Reddit user found one in Alabama that he wanted to fix…
It started like any other typical altruistic story. A man needed a ride to a Wallingford, Connecticut, gas station, and a woman offers to transport him there. No sooner had she exited her parked car, however, than the man turned on her and tackled her to the ground, attempting to steal her keys and drive off in…
I’ll have to keep this in mind the next time I want to sing along to the entire Space Jam soundtrack Photo: C+C Music Factory Vevo In the 1990 smash hit “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” by C+C Music Factory, vocalist Martha Wash famously commands everybody to dance, now. Evidently, even though fans of…
Photo: Masaaki Komori Japan has been having a particular traffic problem lately, as although traffic accidents have fallen overall, there is one area where they have risen: crashes involving drivers over the age of 75, which went from 7.4% to 12.8% of all crashes over the past decade, according to Japanese police. This is in…
Listen to this great movie music when you’re behind the wheel! Photo: Paramount Pictures No matter what you’re doing, life is better with a soundtrack. It adds excitement, emotion, drama, and an epic quality to those mundane daily tasks. That certainly applies to driving, whether navigating traffic during your commute or traversing empty country roads….
Parking can be a stressful process, particularly when it comes to finding somewhere to leave your vehicle in a city. What can be even worse is when you find a parking place, only to find out after you return to your car that the lot you left it in is charging some seriously ridiculous rates…
Al Capone’s Car – Photo: Kate Skegg Al Capone was a notorious gangster who made his fortune and national fame during the prohibition era. So what does the world’s most notorious gangster drive? A 1928 Cadillac Model 341A Town Sedan, of course. It’s no coincidence that Al Capone’s car was a souped-up Cadillac – Cadillac was…
Sometimes you come into work to write about Nissan’s latest innovations, and then sometimes you come into work to write about a naked Tesla driver terrorizing the Pacific Coast Highway in Los Angeles. Today it’s the latter for me. The naked Tesla driver, with Elon Musk’s face strategically hiding the goods On Tuesday of this…
GM’s self-driving Chevy Bolt Photo: Digital Trends Increasingly efficient cars are having one unfortunate consequence for state and federal governments—they actually reduce their tax revenue. This is for the simple reason that, generally, to pay for infrastructure costs, the government typically uses revenue raised from taxes on gasoline sales, which, at least at the federal…
Surveillance Mode, which debuted on the Ford Police Interceptor, is now available to license A little more than a year ago, we told you about Ford’s innovative Surveillance Mode for its 2014 Police Interceptor law enforcement office (LEO) vehicle. Surveillance Mode utilizes a rearview camera and a radar to detect a person approaching the Police…
The Nissan GT-R racing on a track where that belongs Movies and TV shows are great ways to escape the monotony of the every day, but we’re pretty sure all of us know that the things portrayed there are fictional. While a lot of screen time in car movies is given to street racers tearing…
Photo: StockSnap If you get your nails done at Unique Nails in Jackson, Tennessee, you’re expected to pay before leaving. One customer experienced the negative ramifications that result when customers fail to pay for service at this shop. At 3:30pm on Saturday afternoon, the non-paying customer attempted to flee the scene of the crime, as…
The Couple Arrested for Having Sex On Top of a Car at Florida Dealership Source: KRON4 It seems that those recent controversial South Dakota “Don’t Jerk and Drive” ads have opened up a Pandora’s Box, of sorts. In the days since the state pulled the pud plug on the risqué safety campaign, we’ve had a…
Some people just never seem to give up until they have conquered all that they see. One such person is Jessica Sterling of Greenwood, Arkansas, who was captured on video by a police video camera attached to police officer Josh Fisher (we believe attached to his head, which made the whole thing have a disturbing similarity to…
I ran across an odd Halloween-related question that I didn’t know the answer to today: “Is it illegal to wear a mask while you’re driving?” It turns out that the answer isn’t a clear “no,” but the various parts add up to a pretty definite negative. Holidays Are About Family: And the 2018 Chevy Equinox…
Dan Aykroyd as Zombie Elwood Blues in Blues Brothers 2000, an unholy attempt at resurrecting a dead film property It’s always a bit depressing to watch the inexorable march of time turn once-hip Saturday Night Live stars into paunchy movie dads. As the first host of Weekend Update, 1975-era Chevy Chase was the country’s preeminent…
There is such an impressive, almost unbelievable confluence of terrible things happening in the following video that one could almost assume it’s a gift from the schadenfreude gods. It’s a perfect thing, really: likely the worst moment of a young and overly-protective Mustang owner’s life, captured wonderfully in the camera eye for anyone who ever…
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