Top five quirkiest Carpool stories of 2019

In 2019 there have been many stories published from Australia and around the world about cars in quirky situations. All we hope is that for 2020 these stories keep coming, as they are so entertaining.

Here are five of the best from the year.

5. Australia’s wackiest named places are so strange you may want to visit them

Maybe it’s just what happens when you put 25 million people on a piece of land around 32 times the size of the United Kingdom. Whatever the motivation, it turns out we’re really, really, good at naming towns some weird and wacky things. Some of the highlights include Stinkhole Bay, Useless Loop and Eggs and Bacon Bay.

4. L-plater fined for having 29 goats in the back of unregistered ute

Honestly, the funniest driver nonsense we have read all year. And big ups to our design team for putting together the image alone.

Here one 18-year-old from NSW was forced to pay several fines after almost 30 goats were found on board his Nissan Navara ute. As well as checks showing that the man was an unaccompanied L-plater, he was also found to be driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle. This story is the literal GOAT.

3. New Melbourne high-rise apartments to have garages in the living room

One for car nuts that love their wheels so much that the parking inside their multi-million dollar apartment seems like a logical idea. A new apartment development in Melbourne will have 19 full-floor apartments, which include what they are calling “sky garages”. These sky-high car spots with dedicated elevators allow owners to show off their rides from behind a glass window which looks into the living room.

2. Five things you never knew about the Odometer

This feature captured the imagination of readers due to the fact no one has ever thought too much about the origin of the odometer before. Written and researched to coincide with Odometer Day, which is a random date in the calendar to celebrate the measuring contraption that sits in (almost) every single car globally. These five facts shine a kinder light on the odometer.

1. Dad 3D prints his 11-year-old son a driveable Lamborghini Aventador

Quite possibly parent of the year material. Xander Backus (11) from Colorado, USA loved driving a Lamborghini Aventador in the Xbox game Forza so much that he asked his dad Sterling (Ed: had to be American with a name like Sterling) to build him one. And dad did! With a build budget of $20,000, this Colorado family took two years to make the 3D printed replica of a $600,000 Italian supercar. Best part of the story? It's actually driveable!