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Things you didn’t know about motoring #3: On keeping your customers happy.
Many years ago an Italian tractor manufacturer complained to Enzo Ferrari about the poor reliability of his cars. Enzo was not moved, and dismissed him by asking “If you don’t […]
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Car of the week #3: Volvo’s P1800: Reliable meets fast.
According to the World Car Catalogue Volvo’s 1.8-litre, 72-kilowatt P1800 coupe was, in its day, the fastest four-cylinder car in the world. It was also dead sexy. Introduced in 1961, […]
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Art, mudguards and dead cat space.
You may think mudguards lack a certain degree of fascination, but there are folk at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart who can tell you so many interesting things about mudguards […]
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The dirty little secret about the Aston Martin in the James Bond movies.
Now here’s something interesting you didn’t think of (well I didn’t think of it anyway) about James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger, the precursor to a heap of highly […]
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UPDATE: How the king of cool makes metal precious.
It is, arguably, the best car chase sequence ever filmed, not least because the Mustang involved was driven by the king of cool himself, Steve McQueen. And now the Highland […]
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Ford gets a caffeine boost. From McDonalds.
Probably the last thing the latest Ford Mustang needs is a shot of caffeine, but that’s what it’s getting. Right in the headlight. Ford has discovered that coffee chaff, the […]
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Road rage is highest in Peace Avenue.
The main street running through Ulaanbaatar, in Mongolia, is called Peace Avenue. Don’t be fooled. This city of one-and-a-half million has the highest incidence of road rage of any major […]
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Speeding Estonians and just deserts.
They’ve found a new way to punish speeding motorists in Estonia. You’re going to love this idea. Let’s say you’re late for an appointment and you’re driving fast, and you get […]
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The car is dead. Long live the car.
Cars are dying but personal mobility has never looked better. Ford in the USA, the company that put the world on wheels, has just announced that it’s going to phase […]