The Veyron of Dump Trucks has 1,000+ Horses Under its Hood and Runs the 1/4 Mile in 14 Seconds!

Dumps trucks ain't our cup of tea but there's always an exception to the rule, and this is it: a Kenworth T800 with a turbo setup that's good for more than 1,000 horses at the tires!

According to the folks over at Bangshift, who uploaded the following video on their YouTube channel, the Kenworth dump truck runs the quarter mile in 14.1 seconds.

Agreed; that's not something to brag about at a local supercar meet, but keep in mind that we're talking about a dump truck here… Just to get an idea of how fast that is for a vehicle of this type and weight, a few months back, British magazine Autoexpress clocked the BMW 1 Series M Coupe running the 1/4 mile in 13.9 seconds.

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Justice Has Been Served: Frustrated Drivers Knock Over Audi A3 that was Blocking the Road!

Usually, when an insensitive driver double-parks on the road blocking the way to other vehicles, all it takes is a call to the police to get things sorted out. But there comes a time when frustrated drivers take matters into their own hands…

Which is what happened in Exarcheia, a neighborhood in downtown Athens, Greece, when the owner of what looks like a fairly new Audi A3 Sportback parked in front of a couple of large metal trash bins partially blocking the road.

While most passenger cars were able to make it through, a city bus that was making its routine trek around town couldn't fit. The bus driver along with the other drivers that were piling up behind kept honking again and again but to no avail; the owner of the Audi was nowhere to be seen.

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It's Alive! Driverless Truck Runs Away in Reverse

Perhaps this large truck in the frozen Russian city of Vladimir got tired of waiting on the side of the road for its driver to return and decided to stretch out a bit in reverse, or maybe something went wrong. Who knows what happened, but we sure wouldn't want to have been in one of the cars behind it.

Take a look at the footage from a nearby surveillance camera in the video that follows below.

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