Ray Wert
Strategic Communications, Media Relations & Storytelling Leader/Former Head of Corporate Communications at Cruise /Former Professional Storyteller at General Motors/Former Founder and CEO at Tiny Toy Car/Former Editor-in-chief at Jalopnik/Former Communications at Michigan Economic Development Corporation/Former Director of Operations, Office of the Governor at State of Michigan
Watch Drunk Frat Boys At The University Of Albany Destroy A Car
As part of some ridiculous drinking holiday at SUNY Albany this weekend called "Kegs n' Eggs", we're treated to video of idiotic frat-boys destroying cars, two girls wrestling drenched in baby oil, and a kid getting stomped in the face. [Jalopnik]...
You wish your mechanics were this hot
Bill Caswell's exploits as the $500 Craigslist rally driver became one of the year's biggest stories. Bill's still got the E30, but he's now upgraded his shop crew with a new femme-bot-styled threesome. [Jalopnik]...
Driver screams "I’m high on cocaine" after car crash
When Tony Deloach crashed into a parked car he forgot about the cocaine-laced rolled bill in his Camaro until an officer found it. Deloach then screamed "I'm high on cocaine!" and tried fleeing on foot. He didn't get far. [Jalopnik]...
The Ten Greatest Daytona 500 Crashes Ever
Just watching the Daytona 500 today for the crashes? Yeah, so are we. So, in honor of today's race, let's take a look at the ten greatest crashes at the "Super Bowl of NASCAR." [Jalopnik]...
Driver miraculously survives 199 mph supercar crash
A $1.5 million Pagani Zonda registered in Monaco spun out of control at 199 mph earlier this week on Italy's A10 autostrada. Miraculously, the young Italian-Argentine-German douchebag driver survived, but sadly, the black Zonda F gave its life. [Jalopnik]...
The hard-partying NASCAR driver everyone’s talking about
NASCAR driver Brian Vickers abandoned his 2010 season after a pulmonary embolism. Now he's back with an interview in Maxim sure to shake the sport's stodgy fans. He drinks, he hits on chicks, he calls Jeff Gordon no fun. [Jalopnik]...
How Ferrari spins
The ecstasy of driving a new Ferrari is almost always eradicated by the pain of dealing with Ferrari. It's out of control; to the point it will soon be pointless believing anything you read about its cars. [Jalopnik]...
Detroit is so deserted you can now snowmobile down the freeway
It's not that a pack of snowmobiles can comfortably take to the streets of Detroit in winter that amazes us about this video. It's that Detroit has become so empty, snowmobiles can now also hit the freeways. [Jalopnik]...
My Audi was turned into an icicle and all I got was this free car
Manhattanite Peter Helfer found his Audi covered in ice from a broken water main. His car was on newspaper covers, on morning news shows, and all over the internet. Here's how it happened, in his own words. [Jalopnik]...
"I came out and a bear was sitting in my car…. taking a crap and drinking beer"
As if it's not bad enough to come outside and find a bear sitting shotgun in your Volkswagen, to then find out the bear defecated in it and drank your beer really is the icing on the crap-cake. [Jalopnk]...