Articles by Alex Kersten
Opinion
18/04/16
Last week, we saw good guy pickup truck drivers and bikers, sub-five second 0-62mph diesel cars and an awkward Audi crash. Here were the best comments from a wild week of news, features and videos!
Fails
14/04/16
Hail stones smashed windows, dented metal and pierced through BMW plastics in San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday evening, which has resulted in a repair bill in the millions. On the plus side, now might be a good time to snatch up a bargain!
Bikes
14/04/16
On a sunny day in London this week, three scumbags brazenly stole a KTM 990 in broad daylight by forcing locks and wheeling the bike down the road. What's more, they did it in front of a crowd of dumbfounded onlookers...
Bikes
14/04/16
When this biker filters through traffic, a good guy in a pickup truck stops him in his tracks because he can see that a car is attempting to pull across the traffic. This simple act of kindness is rare to see these days...
Opinion
13/04/16
BMW's new M2 is the car that I've been most excited to drive in 2016. After a day of burning rubber and fast cornering with the traction control switched off, here were the things I liked a lot, and a few things I didn't...
Supercars and Hypercars
08/04/16
This particular Lamborghini Murcielago comes with a couple of choice mods - namely an AWD delete and a Fabspeed exhaust - to make it perform and sound so good, that you'll question reality...
Off-roading
07/04/16
It's pretty cool being overtaken by a Mercedes G500 4x4² (they're huge and sound immense), but this overtake in the Czech Republic will go down in history as the most obnoxiously brilliant G-Wagen overtake in history
Used Cars
06/04/16
This immaculate BMW E39 M5 has just come up for sale with fewer miles on its odometer than you'd walk in just two months! This is possibly the cleanest E39 in the world right now!
Trucks
06/04/16
With a busted starter motor, this truck is going nowhere fast. That's until a 5.2-litre, manual V8 Dodge Dakota shows up with a tow rope and mad pulling power to awaken this Volvo beast. That's damn impressive!
Bikes
06/04/16
Last night, we brought you shocking scenes of a biker who had to ride for his life. How it all started remained unclear, but now we can see that the driver was at fault!
Bikes
05/04/16
We don't know much about the events leading up to this video, but whatever went on between this pair of motorists seems to have flicked a 'must destroy' switch on in the car driver's head
Wins
05/04/16
A little while ago, two misguided young women climbed into a man's Miata, took a stupid pic and uploaded the image to social media with some harsh words. Now, they've been given 'payback' at the hands of two pro drivers...
Opinion
05/04/16
From muscle cars and off-roaders, to classic JDM beauties, a quadricycle and even a celebrity-owned vehicle that proved insanely popular with all CTzens, here are the coolest CT Garage cars of the last seven days!
Bikes
05/04/16
When a 19-year-old motorbike rider sees the California Highway Patrol coming in the other direction, he loses focus mid-corner and lowsides his bike. The impact looks pretty hard and his jeans are instantly shredded!
Fails
04/04/16
At a Cars And Coffee meet recently in Chicago, this douchebag Mustang driver pins the throttle and crashes into another car. When will these people learn?
Wins
04/04/16
In what looks like a shoot for a commercial, a crappy old 1980s car (Opel Kadett, perhaps?) meets its maker at the hands of a 450-tonne (edited) dump truck. That's hella stance right there!
Nürburgring
04/04/16
During a Touristenfahrten day last weekend, this R34 - which looks to have been driving in convoy with another R34 - loses control at Adenauer Forst and slams into the barrier sideways
Nürburgring
04/04/16
During a Touristenfahrten day on the weekend, an unfortunate sequence of events (sparked by a badly-driven Ford Focus estate) causes a VW Golf Mk2 to smash into the back of a slowing GT3. Bad times...
General
01/04/16
Car Throttle recently hit 1m YouTube subscribers. To celebrate, we burnt tyres (burst one too) and shot a cool video to say thanks. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at our time at Rockingham Speedway!
Supercars and Hypercars
01/04/16
Lamborghini's Dynamic Steering means fewer steering inputs are needed to get the front wheels turned in. This video demonstrates the differences of a Lambo fitted with the system and one without
News
01/04/16
Real drivers like us know all about lateral G-forces when we take corners at 150mph. Staying upright in our seats can sometimes be a struggle, which is why Lexus has invented the perfect solution...
General Mechanical Advice
29/03/16
If you want to work on your car yourself, then make sure you build up this list of tools, which will allow you to do most maintenance and many repair jobs!
General Mechanical Advice
29/03/16
Sick and tired of 'my buddy said this', 'Google told me that', this guy shows us how so-called 'Facebook Mechanics' can fix your car!
News
29/03/16
As autonomous cars begin to take over in the future, their intelligence could mean the death of traffic and a massive reduction in pollution if slot-based intersections like this are used...