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Amazon Delivery Truck Gets Stuck Under Queens Bridge

There are few things more unforgiving than a low bridge. Gravity doesn’t negotiate, steel doesn’t flex, and clearance signs are suggestions only if you’re willing to turn your trailer into modern art. Unfortunately for one Amazon delivery driver in Queens, New York, that lesson arrived the hard way—and on Facebook.

A video posted by Trashy Trucker Media has gone viral after capturing the aftermath of an Amazon box truck attempting to slip under an iron bridge in Astoria. It didn’t fit. The bridge won. Traffic lost. And the internet, predictably, feasted.

The footage shows the truck wedged firmly beneath the bridge, its trailer roof peeled back like the lid of a sardine can. Police are already on scene. Cars stack up behind the immovable object. Meanwhile, the video’s narrator—a trucking veteran with a megaphone-style delivery and zero sympathy—provides live commentary.

“Ain’t having no fun up here in Astoria, Queens, New York, folks,” he declares, before delivering the line that launched a thousand comments: “Driver, that’s unacceptable!”

By the time the clip finished making the rounds, it had racked up more than 436,000 views, turning a routine infrastructure mishap into a holiday-season spectacle. Trashy Trucker Media labeled the incident a “door dummy” moment—industry slang for a driver who misses the basics—and many viewers were happy to agree.

And to be fair, low-bridge strikes are about as avoidable as trucking mistakes get. Older cities like New York are packed with legacy infrastructure, where bridge clearances dip well below modern interstate standards. That’s why height restrictions are posted early, often repeatedly, and in numbers large enough to read from orbit. Professional drivers are trained—drilled, really—to know their vehicle’s height and treat clearance signs as gospel.

Amazon, for its part, says it stacks the deck even further. In a statement to Motor1, a company spokesperson emphasized that safety is a top priority and that drivers have access to commercial-grade navigation through Amazon’s Relay app, designed to route trucks away from low bridges, narrow streets, and other urban booby traps. When everything works as intended, you never see a truck playing chicken with 19th-century steel.

But “when everything works as intended” is doing a lot of lifting here.

Online commenters were quick to point fingers at the driver, with many arguing that the incident represented a failure at the most basic level of commercial driving. “Got to do better, driver,” one wrote. Another wondered aloud how it even got that far: “At what point does he notice his truck getting too close? There are measurements everywhere.” A third cut straight to the credentialing issue: “I thought CDL school taught reading signs.”

Others leaned into gallows humor, suggesting the mishap might explain some mysteriously delayed packages. “So much for Xmas presents,” one joked. “So that’s where my package is,” another added.

Still, not everyone was eager to throw the driver under the bridge—figuratively speaking. One trucker chimed in with a more empathetic take, recounting his own early-career brush with a low-clearance scare in Queens. He caught the signs too late, needed help backing out, and escaped with nothing worse than wounded pride. No damage, no delays, no viral video. Just a lesson learned.

That’s the quiet part of trucking the internet rarely sees: most mistakes don’t end in shredded trailers and comment-section dogpiles. They end with embarrassment, paperwork, and a renewed respect for signs bolted to old steel.

This time, though, the consequences were loud, visible, and expensive. Bridge strikes are dangerous, disruptive, and costly—not just for the driver and the company, but for everyone stuck behind the mess. They’re also almost entirely preventable, which is why they draw so much heat when they happen.

In the end, this wasn’t a story about Amazon, algorithms, or even bad luck. It was about overconfidence meeting immovable infrastructure. The bridge didn’t move. The truck didn’t fit. And the internet, as always, was ready to remind everyone why clearance signs exist in the first place.

Source: Trashy Trucker Media via Facebook

News

2024 Nissan GT-R Skyline Edition Tests the Collector Market

The Nissan GT-R has always lived in a strange limbo—too advanced to fade quietly into obscurity, too stubbornly unchanged to chase reinvention. For nearly two decades, the R35 generation carried on with incremental updates, daring the world to decide whether Godzilla was aging gracefully or simply refusing to age at all. Now, as production winds down and nostalgia starts doing what it does best, certain versions of the GT-R are inching toward collector status. Exhibit A: this 2024 GT-R Skyline Edition that just tried—and failed—to rewrite its own market value.

At a recent Cars & Bids auction, an ultra-low-mileage Skyline Edition coupe surged to an eye-watering $222,000 after 46 bids. That’s real money, and a lot of enthusiasm. It’s also not enough. The seller’s reserve remained untouched, suggesting that even a six-figure profit on paper isn’t sufficient when rarity, timing, and optimism collide.

Introduced for the 2024 model year, the Skyline Edition was Nissan’s carefully calculated nostalgia play for the U.S. market. Only 100 examples were built, each finished in Bayside Blue—a color so closely associated with the R34-generation GT-R that merely mentioning it sends certain corners of the internet into meltdown. It’s a paint choice that does most of the talking before the engine ever fires.

When new, the Skyline Edition carried an MSRP of $133,500. By modern supercar standards, that almost feels restrained, especially when you consider what Nissan bundled into the package. Mechanically, it’s the familiar R35 formula: a hand-assembled 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 producing 573 horsepower and 467 pound-feet of torque, sent through a six-speed dual-clutch transmission and all four wheels. It’s still brutally quick, still devastatingly effective, and still more video game boss than analog sports car.

But the Skyline Edition’s real differentiator isn’t horsepower—it’s atmosphere. Open the door and you’re greeted by a Sora Blue interior that makes most other R35 cabins look positively dour. Light blue leather spreads across the dashboard, door panels, seats, steering wheel, and center console, creating a look that’s equal parts luxury lounge and concept car throwback. Carbon-fiber trim cuts through the pastel palette, reminding you that this is still very much a performance weapon, not a fashion accessory.

Nissan sweetened the deal further with a titanium exhaust system, 20-inch Rays wheels, and electronically controlled Bilstein DampTronic dampers. It’s a greatest-hits list of GT-R hardware, curated for buyers who wanted the full experience without checking the aftermarket catalog.

This particular car was originally delivered by Riverside Nissan in California and had just 80 miles on the odometer when it crossed the virtual auction block. Eighty. That’s barely enough to warm the fluids, let alone wear in a clutch. In collector terms, it’s essentially a new car with a time capsule warranty.

So why didn’t $222,000 seal the deal? Because the modern collector market is as much about belief as it is about numbers. The seller clearly believes the Skyline Edition represents a future blue-chip GT-R—one that will sit comfortably alongside the most desirable R35 variants once the dust settles and the internal-combustion era feels properly distant. The bidders, enthusiastic as they were, weren’t quite ready to make that leap.

Still, the takeaway here isn’t failure—it’s momentum. A GT-R that originally sold for $133,500 attracting bids north of $220K tells you everything you need to know about where the wind is blowing. The R35 may have overstayed its welcome in showrooms, but in the collector world, it’s just starting to make sense.

Godzilla isn’t done evolving. It’s just changing arenas.

Source: Cars & Bids

Tuning

Mansory Turns the Audi RS6 into a 1,100-HP End-of-Year Firework

If subtlety is your thing, Mansory has never been your tuning house. The German outfit built its reputation on carbon-fiber excess and visual volume set permanently to eleven. And yet, beneath the loud aesthetics, Mansory has quietly become very good at something else: making already ridiculous performance cars completely unhinged.

To close out 2025, Mansory decided the Audi RS6 still wasn’t enough.

On paper, the current RS6 Performance is already absurd—a 630-hp, twin-turbo V-8 wagon capable of embarrassing supercars while hauling groceries. Mansory’s own catalog pushes that even further, topping out with a Stage 3 package that inflates output to a frankly unnecessary 1,000 horsepower and 1,250 Nm of torque. For most tuners, that would be the mic drop.

Mansory, unsurprisingly, kept talking.

Spotted via the company’s social channels, this latest RS6 build quietly raises the stakes again. There’s no official package name, no neatly branded badge of honor—just a number stamped onto the fender vents: 1,100 hp. Torque remains unchanged from the Stage 3 setup, but the headline figure alone is enough to make Audi engineers wince.

While Mansory hasn’t published a full spec sheet, all signs point to the existing Stage 3 hardware with additional software refinement. That means a reworked ECU, upgraded turbochargers, freer-flowing intake plumbing, air-to-water intercoolers, and exhaust pipes that politely ignore the existence of catalytic converters. The speed limiter is gone, too, with Mansory claiming a top speed of 325 km/h—assuming you can find enough road, courage, and legal flexibility to confirm it.

Visually, this RS6 is pure Mansory, for better or worse. Forged carbon fiber dominates the exterior, covering everything from the hood and splitter to the side skirts, diffuser, wing, and those now-famous vented fenders. The shapes are sharp, angular, and unapologetic, right down to the aggressively pointed exhaust tips. Massive 22-inch forged wheels fill the arches, framing turquoise brake calipers that hint at what awaits inside.

And what awaits inside is… turquoise. Almost entirely. Mansory didn’t just add accent stitching or seat inserts—it went all in. Nearly every surface is wrapped in bright blue-green leather, broken only by carbon trim, glass, and the occasional strip of white hide. It’s the kind of interior that makes you wonder whether subtlety was ever considered, then immediately dismissed. Illuminated door logos and a “starry sky” headliner complete the experience, because of course they do.

Interestingly, despite the visual drama, this particular build still resembles a standard RS6 in its basic body structure. That’s notable, because Mansory has also begun teasing interest in the even rarer RS6 GT. Audi built just 660 examples of that model worldwide—fewer than 100 for the U.S.—and it introduced the 630-hp setup that later became standard. With its unique fenders and more aggressive front fascia, the RS6 GT already looks like a tuner special straight from Ingolstadt.

Mansory hasn’t announced concrete parts or packages for the GT yet, but the implication is clear: nothing with four rings and twin turbos is safe.

In the end, this 1,100-hp RS6 is peak Mansory. Loud, divisive, wildly powerful, and completely unnecessary—and that’s exactly the point. It’s a reminder that even in an era of electrification and efficiency targets, there’s still room for a carbon-clad super wagon that exists purely to shock, awe, and overwhelm.

Taste not included.

Source: Mansory

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