Video: Lada emergency is no mere fire drill

Filed under: Etc., Videos, Russia We imagine that many a Russian Lada has been compared to a ticking time bomb – which is not to say that there aren’t any good Ladas out in the wild, of course – but the example you’ll see in the video pasted below takes the cake. It is, quite [...]

Video: R/C flying DeLorean drone doesn’t need roads

Filed under: Etc., Videos, Toys/Games, Russia The mantra of the builder of this R/C DeLorean replica from Back to the Future is: “куда мы идем, нам не нужны дороги.” According to Google Translate, that’s Russian for, “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” Appropriate, eh? With a painted foamcore body and blue LEDs, this Mr. [...]

Official: Toyota to export Highlander from U.S. to Australia, Russia

Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Crossover, Toyota Toyota is struggling with the rising yen, so much so that the automaker has been shifting vehicle production outside of Japan. That’s bad news for laborers in Japan, but it works out in favor of the American workforce in Princeton, Indiana. That’s because Toyota has announced that it will hire [...]

Video: Watch the “sheep cyclone” encircle a car

Filed under: Videos, Humor The beige blurs in the still above are sheep, and they’re apparently very excited about something in that little blue car. Supposedly, a farmer in the Caucasus was just trying to get through a lane, and this, dubbed the “sheep cyclone,” is what developed. Follow the jump for the video. If [...]

Video: Watch this Audi transform into a moving picture show

Filed under: Sedan, Videos, Audi, Russia, Design/Style Though we still can’t explain the technology, we’re becoming big fans of projection mapping, as can also be seen in this video that has also been featured on these pages. From what we can gather, a Russian marketing team called Radugadesign was behind this production, and we can [...]