Monthly Archives: December 2009
Auto Trader caption competition – day 5
AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! If there’s ever anything you didn’t want peering through your window, it’s an angry-looking horse – especially if you’re locked in the back of a car. Yup – its caption time again. See if you can better our efforts
Filed under Auto Trader
Madman in a truck jumps 300 feet for world record
The guys from Monster Energy have been at it again. When they’re not sponsoring Ken Block for his tyre-shredding escapades through docks or airports, they’re helping guys like Johnny Greaves. He powered his Toyota race truck more than 300 feet … Continue reading
Filed under Toyota
Light fantastic: the coolest model cars ever
If anyone has been watching James May‘s Toy Stories on the Beeb, you’ll know what a sucker he is for model cars. But I bet not even the big-haired Top Gear presenter has seen anything quite like this. Modell-Lichtsystem has … Continue reading
Twitter spoils our supercar-engined saloon fun
Supercars are great in theory, but using one every day in practise is tricky. They’re too flash, too cramped, too low, too thirsty…the list goes on. So when we heard about the possibility of Lexus wading into battle against the … Continue reading
Latest Veyron slayer: 1,032bhp VW Polo
1,032bhp. That’s an awful lot of power. Its a Smart ForTwo CDI bolted onto a Bugatti Veyron. Its the kind of power that ignites supernovas. And now its available in a Volkswagen Polo.
Filed under Polo, Volkswagon
Auto Trader caption competition – day 4
Possible places to park your Beetle: Near a tree Next to a tree Into a tree (at high speed) But is it possible to grow a tree through your Beetle? Until today we would have said no – but anything … Continue reading
Filed under Auto Trader
Swindon roads “safer” after Gatsos axed
The first town in Britain to axe speed cameras has revealed its roads are safer since its Gatsos were removed. Swindon council said while there had been one fatal accident on the roads covered by the cameras in August-October 2008, … Continue reading
Filed under Advice
More snow on the way
The Met Office is forecasting yet more snow today, with Scotland, north east and central England and east Wales bearing the brunt. Its experts say up to 25cm could fall on high ground and there’s likely to be widespread ice … Continue reading
Filed under Long journeys, News
China builds women-only car park
Car parks can be dodgy places – as crime-ridden as they can be intimidating; especially for lone women at night. So surely the women-only car park that has just opened at the Wanxiang-Tiancheng shopping centre in Shijiazhuang city, China, should … Continue reading
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