For the second time in a month the same home was hit by an out-of-control car, leading authorities to call for the city to install a barrier to stop the crashes.

The owners of a home in Etobicoke, Canada saw a car crash into their house for the second in less than three weeks on Saturday when a 25-year-old man hit a curb sending his car flying into the home’s master bedroom and landing on the bed.

Earlier this month an elderly couple in their late 80s hit a snow bank which sent their car flying into the home’s living room and caused massive structural damage, according to the Star.

No one was injured in either of the crashes.

The couple who own the home said they have often thought of being hit by passing cars because of the sharp corner outside their home.

“We have joked from time to time that a car coming down Parklawn Road coming at high speed, if they didn’t make that corner, was going to end up in our house,” John Johansen told CityNews.ca after the first crash.

Unfortunately for the couple, everything they owned was being stored in the master bedroom following the first crash, according to the Star.

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With the economy continuing to struggle, many people who would normally buy a new vehicle are turning to used cars for their purchase. For those in the market for a luxury used car, Motor Trend has some suggestions.

The economy is making it a buyer’s market even for used cars with the Dow Jones recently reporting that used car prices fell 8 percent in 2008. With that in mind, Motor Trend says it might be possible to snag a great luxury car at a not so luxury a price.

In the supercar category, the magazine picks the 1990-2005 Acura NSX. Motor Trend says the car’s marriage of “supermodel personality with Girl-Scout reliability” forced Italian carmakers to up their game when the car was released.

For those looking for a car that can carry the groceries along with the kids and the dog, the website suggest the 2001-2007 Volvo V70 or XC. Volvos are known for their safety and this wagon is no exception but for people just driving in the city, the site says they might want to go for the “prettier” V70 version.

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that luxury used car sales are up across the country and says the already good market should get better soon as three to four-year-old leases begin being turned in.

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Drivers in Minnesota learned a hard winter lesson this weekend when thousands of cars were towed after a snow emergency was declared.

Minneapolis spokesman Matt Laible told the Downtown Journal that 1,800 cars were towed to impound lots in order to make room for snowplows as the city was buried in snow following a three-day snow emergency.

Laible told the website that 862 vehicles were towed on Saturday, the first day of the Snow Emergency, with another 951 vehicles towed Sunday. It is expected that the final tally will exceed the 1,800 mark.

ABC affiliate KSTP says another 1,200 vehicles were towed in neighboring St. Paul, Minnesota causing residents of both cities to pay up to $200 to have their cars removed, which is hitting cash-strapped motorists hard.

“I don’t have a cell phone. I can’t afford that type of thing – just nuts and bolts right now,” Joel Wenz, one of the people waiting at the impound lot told KSTP.

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Sometimes the future of technology can be found by going to the past. That was surely the case of a man who turned a rusted 1972 Volkswagen Beetle into a car that costs a penny to drive.

As a former NASA engineer, John Hendrickson definitely had an advantage when turning the 37-year-old VW into an electric vehicle but his story shows that with some determination and a disdain for paying for gas, anything is possible.

“I thought gas stations were ripping us off, so I decided to just go build my own electric car,” Hendrickson told the Houston Chronicle.

After about two years of work, Hendrickson’s VW now gets about 50 miles on one charge and has taken home a number of awards.

But according to the paper, Hendrickson isn’t through tinkering with used cars. Now the 74-year-old intends on turning a used 1992 Isuzu Amigo into a hybrid vehicle that runs on electric and gasoline.

Although many would like to see the day when it is no longer necessary to make a visit to the gas station, it appears that hybrid cars are the next best thing for the time being. As another sign of the hybrid future, the New York City police department will soon unveil 40 hybrid vehicles that will be on patrol in the city, according to the New York Post.

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A Utah woman suffered a devastating loss following a car crash Tuesday night – her world record-length fingernails.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Lee Redmond had not cut her fingernails since 1979 and the total length of her nails combined reached almost 30 feet. Guinness says Redmond’s longest nail was her thumb which measured in at 2 feet 11 inches.

But according to the Salt Lake City Tribune, Redmond’s nails were broken off on Tuesday when her SUV was involved in a four car crash outside of Salt Lake City, Utah and she was ejected from the vehicle.

Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Don Hutson told the paper that Redmond was taken to the hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

According to the Deseret News, Redmond was the passenger in an SUV that hit the side of another vehicle Tuesday afternoon in Holladay, Utah. That caused the second vehicle to strike a third, and force Redmond’s SUV onto the curb, through a chain link fence and into a fourth vehicle.

The 67-year-old Redmond had previously said she turned down $10,000 from a Japanese television station to cut the nails.

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It turns out that eccentric guy on your street who says the clunker in his garage is actually worth a ton of money might be right after a car found in a UK garage sold for more than $4 million in auction.

The 1937 Bugatti Atalante 57S coupe was found in the garage of a doctor following his death in 2007. The owner reportedly used the car for a few years in the early 1960s, but the car had not even been started up for more than 50 years.

Although the car sold for about $4.5 million last week at a car auction, experts say it will cost another $500,000 to properly restore the car to its original condition.

The car was one of only 17 made in 1937 with at least four being owned by an automobile museum in France and the rest by private owners.

“This was the creme-de-la-creme of late 1930s sports cars,” Simon Kidston, a Geneva-based classic car adviser, told Bloomberg. “Of the examples that have come on the market, this had by far the best history, prettiest body style and no one has seen it for 50 years.”

According to the London Daily Mail, the garage which contained the Bugatti also held a 1,500 beer steins and a World War II spy drone.

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Electronic road signs across the country, usually used to advise of traffic or weather conditions, have begun to warn motorists of some other strange problems lately – zombies.

It seems that pranksters have been hacking into the signs and changing their screens to read of warnings of the undead and raptors or other problems. Some signs have even told drivers that no one loves them.

Police in some parts of the country are worried that the signs could be problematic to passing motorists who may be laughing too hard to concentrate on the road.

“We understood it was a hoax, but at the same time those boards are there for a reason,” Joe Gasaway, an Illinois Department of Transportation supervisory field engineer told the Associated Press. “We don’t want [drivers] being distracted by a funny sign.”

Recently the auto blog Jalopnik posted a how-to guide to hacking into one of the electronic signs. However, the site did run the following warning:

“DO NOT under any circumstances run around hacking into electronic road signs using the information contained in this step-by-step guide of how to transmit hilarious messages to passing motorists.”

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Since running the guide the site has posted pictures of 20 different messages that have been hacked onto electronic signs.

Google has made it easier for people to get from point A to point B with their Street View technology which has a vehicle drive across U.S. roadways taking panoramic photos of streets.

Unfortunately this vehicle can sometimes get in an accident, and apparently when it happens, Google doesn’t want people to see.

While photographing roads in upstate New York, the Google vehicle hit a deer as it crossed a rural road, killing the deer while recording the action. It appears that not many people noticed the accident on Street View until this week when it appeared all over the internet.

The photographs originally showed the car driving south on Five Points Road in Rush, NY when a small deer begins to walk across the street. Another photo appeared to show the deer attempting to jump out of the way of the car and a final photo showed the animal on the side of the road.

The street view for that area is no longer available.

In a response issued yesterday, Google confirmed that one of its vehicles had hit a deer, but says the images were removed after the company received numerous requests.

“We’re sad that this accident occurred and we consider ourselves fortunate that our driver was not injured,” the company said.

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