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The truth behind that new car smile
Car companies have lots of marketing ideas but the most effective way to get brands and products known is to have lots of them out there on the road. Car […]
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How to design a car
The surprising thing about Skyfall, the most recent James Bond movie, was just how good that old Aston Martin DB5 looked. It first turned up in 1964, in Goldfinger, and […]
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Micro cars. Macro prices.
Unless automotive safety standards plummet we’ll never see another microcar era. Which means that pristine examples of these thoroughly weird cars have become surprisingly valuable. In America a collection of […]
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How dumb can traffic laws get?
China’s dumbest traffic management idea fortunately never made it to the statutes and the country now appears to be on the verge of rescinding the dumbest one that did; that […]
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How a woman named Bertha gave motoring a push
The women that pop up in the blokey history of motoring are full of surprises. For example, the world’s first car thief was a woman and she stole no less […]
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The highly precise art of ro-ro boating
In a park with a view down to the White Bay docks in Sydney I once sat fascinated as a couple of crews unloaded a car freighter. It was a […]
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Grim future for speed cops
Self-driving cars are inevitable. Cars are already reverse-parking themselves and braking automatically to avoid, or at least mitigate crashes. Next year Volvo will have vehicles capable of driving themselves in […]