At the end of every year, auto journalists are beset with a famine of newsworthy content. With the brunt of consumers focused on gift-giving — and their soaring credit card balances — very few are salivating over the prospect of financing a new car. To fill the gaping chasm that is their front page, columnists sometimes churn out reviews about cars nobody particularly cares about, like the Bentley Mulsanne and the new Merc Gullwing. Your local newspaper stands as a testament to this.

This absolutely defies description. Calling this stunt driving or drifting simply fails to capture the ridiculous things captured on video here. By using AWD, this Japanese stunt driver has managed to create a car that seems to be equally happy to turn into a corner backwards. It's not just the driving that's absurd, it's the sheer concept that someone woke up one morning and thought "Hm, I bet racing down mountain roads would be exciting in a 1-ton pogo stick."