Auto Buds is a user submitted website of photos of "auto buds" which are defined as "two cars of the same make, model, color, or as identical as possible, that are parked right next to each other or in close proximity." When you see this occur, you have to yell out "auto buds!" and then punch your friend in the arm.
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Pictures of plaid upholstered Porsche interiors. Why oh why?
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Official letterhead of the DeLorean Motor Company.
I'd rather weep in a BMW than smile on a bicycle.
- Quote by 22-year-old model Ma Nuo in an article about six rich Chinese twenty-something kids who belong to "the Sports Car Club" in the July edition of Chinese GQ, which has now been pulled off the GQ website.
Great article by Globe and Mail's automotive reporter Peter Cheney about his son accidentally crashing the latest 2010 test Porsche Turbo valued at $180,000 in their house garage door. Quite a Bueller moment indeed.
When I parked it, the Turbo had been pristine. Now it looked like the car from Dukes of Hazzard after a chase through the southern backwoods. Stunned, I surveyed the damage. The hood was raked with gouges, the top of the right front fender was flattened, and the driver’s door (which is made from aluminum to save weight) had taken a beating. Worst of all was the rear fender, which had hit the concrete door frame as the Turbo launched itself into the alley – it looked like a giant blacksmith had smacked it with a sledge hammer.
...As the dust settled, my wife and I confronted the parenting issues that attended the disaster. What was the appropriate punishment for a boy who trashes a car worth $180,000?
This is like the time I crashed my mom's new Mac, EXCEPT SO MUCH WORSE. View more photos of the accident here.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaQB_tgS7f0] While certainly shiny, the Ferdinand GT3 RS built by Johannes L might not only be the slowest Porsche in world, but also quite possibly the slowest "car." There is something quite hilarious seeing this familiar speedy shape going no faster than a plodding tricycle.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pXt5_aM1t4] A Ferrari F340, Audi R8, Gallardo, Mclaren SLR and a Maserati GT go head to head against each other in one massive drag race or a wet dream for luxury race car enthusiast.
This promotional full size replica of a Ferrari Grand Prix race car was built using 1,500 t-shirts, 88 pairs of jeans, 20 belts, 26 pairs of shoes and baseball caps. More information plus a behind-the-scenes video available 
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMK1WZjP7g] A 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu go head to head in this crash test.
Angry notes anonymously left for the owners of impolite cars.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7CsuKvo72Y] A (damn lucky) panda and his buddy tear around LA in exotic sports cars and get into general wildness with the sort of hot women that appear straight out of Tiger Woods' Side Piece central casting in this fun promotional video for a luxury car rental company created and directed by my friend Nick Miller (the hit-maker behind the Facebook Gangsta). Watch until the very end of the short for a Hangover-esque ending.
Shameless plug on behalf of my friend: Please Digg this video!
Police are looking for the driver of this BMW that decides to (accidentally I hope) drive right on up two parked cars. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do6pmYfNco0&fmt=18]
Growing up in the Nineties, the theft of car audio systems seemed ubiquitous to me. However, over the past 15 years car stereo thefts have drastically declined. Here are some of the factors that contributed to this drop.
- Auto manufacturers realized they could charge more by factory installing better audio stereo systems, which made them more difficult to steal.
- Stereos are cheaper, thus lower profit margins for theives.
- Computerization of cars make stereo systems both more complicated to remove and install.
Relatedly, check out Alfonso Soriano's boomtastic car stereo speaker system:
As Boing Boing points out: "Another advantage of front wheel drive." Although increasingly like many "viral" videos, this appears to either be a fake or an ad. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wptRenRWRQw]
Here are some bumper stickers that are nuanced for the meek driver who desire to communicate a message to others without necessarily informing them their kids and their money went to Harvard or the hilarity of Calvin from "Calvin & Hobbes" pissing on something.
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