The title honestly says it all. It’s hard to believe all those things could make it into one insane video, but somehow, TRU TV makes it happen.

It begins as a normal repossession episode. But when the mentally deranged 20 year old “locked in the 80s” owner of the vehicle makes it out of the house, a new kind of weird, weird hell breaks loose–and somebody gets hurt!

The hilarity ensues about 1:50 in. So get ready. And have a change of pants ready, too, just in case.

OK, words don’t even begin to describe our reaction to the news that Aston Martin is considering rebranding the upcoming Toyota iQ city car as a Aston Martin. No joke. We’re like not even joking. Multiple sources are reporting that Ulrich Bez, CEO of Aston Martin, is seriously considering introducing this badge-engineered Toyota into the Aston lineup. In a press release describing the Cygnet concept, Bez describes it as “akin to an exclusive tender to a luxury yacht … allow[ing] us to apply Aston Martin design language, craftsmanship and brand values to a completely new segment of the market.”

A few days ago, at around 4pm on June 25th, Chevrolet Volt chief engineer Andrew Farah took some time out to answer questions about the car via a live webchat hosted at the official GM FastLane blog.

Farah has been involved in the development of the Volt since around early 2007, and he’s apparently the first person to drive the brand new “production intent” Volt. I was looking forward to getting some juicy news about the electrojesus car, but it turned out to be a little more like a PR stunt with none of my questions slipping past. So I added an addendum at the bottom of the transcript which includes a couple of my questions and simulated answers. Enjoy, Ridelusters.

Francois Knorreck has got to be the most hospitable biker in history. How else would you explain the accommodations of his bad ass sidecar, the Snaefell? Custom fabricated over the last 10 years and with over $20,000 of his own money, the Snaefell was pieced together from various cars and attached to a 1000cc Laverda motorcycle. Both occupants will find a fully functioning dashboard with stereo, air conditioning and a handcrafted interior. What, no Blu-ray player? I’m waiting for next year’s model. More pics ahead.

Just like some revolutionaries from a couple hundred years ago who froze their asses mostly to death one winter in nearby Valley Forge, modern-day agitators against the regime of boredom currently gripping the suburbs of Philadelphia have adopted guerrilla entertainment tactics to fight back. We’re not talking about killing Hessians on Christmas – we’re talking here about Guerrilla Drive-In, the secret entertainment phenomenon that beams its revolutionary propaganda right from the sidecar of a BMW R100/7 motorcycle!!! Want to see Repo Man in a junkyard with strangers? This could be the ticket!

MEIN GOTT IN HIMMEL! WAS IST DIE?

There is an old German expression, “Gestupidinsanebatscheissekrazyfastkontraption,” which loosely translates as a desire to strap yourself inside a tiny vehicle with a huge engine bolted right behind your head and drive it extremely fast. Today, that phrase takes on new relevance. A while back we took a look at some radial-engined cars and motorcycles, but brace yourselves for the unholy awesomeness. It’s an obscure German microcar, a Goggomobil (which weighed 996 lbs and had 20 HP stock), mated to 10,220 cc of Russian iron. The combination is good for 360 HP, 666 ft-lbs of torque (not making that up), and a one-way ticket to Hades courtesy of the first corner you encounter. Let’s just say your projekt to create a Hayabusa-powered VW Bug is kaput.

Have you been dreaming about a partially enclosed electric vehicle made out of fabric and powered by 20 D-cell batteries? What if we told you it folded up for easy storage? Plus, what if it came with all the sex appeal of a 1:32 scale Amish buggy? The brain trust at Wike, a maker of bicycle trailers, has come up with a hair-brained electric vehicle idea they call the Electric Sun, and what we’d like to call the antithesis of all that’s good and pure in the world.

Yee-haw!

They say that necessity is the mother of invention. If that’s the case, what was the mother of this otherworldly motorcycle? It sure as hell wasn’t necessity, unless you have a desperate need to impress a mechanical engineer. You’re wondering – is this real? It sure is – and it runs. Make the jump to see it in action.

Texas grown Edward E. Whitacre Jr. knows plenty about telephones. He spent 43 of his 67 years building AT&T into a multi-national telephone giant. That takes some quality wrangling, my friends. But what about cars?

Note to self: wear helmet when riding jet bike.

From the annals of utter insanity comes this tale of Bob Maddox, the man who decided that strapping two pulse-jet engines to a Electra bicycle would be an excellent idea. Bob, we here at Ridelust salute you for making this work, but also for narrowly avoiding the Darwin Award that was a potential outcome of this experiment.