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News: Father's painfully honest car advert goes viral

A father’s brutally honest used-car ad has become an internet hit. The long-suffering dad describes the vehicle as perfect for any teenage lad...
Published 13 January 2015
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News: Abandoned BMW left so long it begins to grow...

Jason Bourne, reclaim your car: we know you have amnesia, but if you are looking for a black BMW 3-series, you can find it outside the Albion Inn...
Published 12 January 2015
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Video: Jim Carrey's Lincoln adverts are laugh out loud...

Lincoln may not sell cars this side of The Pond but you don't have to be American to appreciate these spoof adverts featuring Jim Carrey.
Published 29 October 2014
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News: The AeroMobil flying car moves closer to runway

Is this the ultimate jam-buster? Instead of sitting in tiresome queues, just fly over them. A new version of the AeroMobil flying car is set to be...
Published 20 October 2014
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News: Council paints double yellow lines on 3ft wide...

It’s barely 3ft wide and far too small for even the tiny Smart city car but a stretch of tarmac in one north London street has still been painted...
Published 20 October 2014
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News: Enthusiast turns old dodgems into road-going...

Who hasn't dreamed of driving a dodgem out of the fairground and down the road? Peter Ward not only imagined doing so but is in the process of converting...
Published 07 October 2014
Jeremy Clarkson quotes: foreigners

Clarkson on: foreigners

Jeremy Clarkson has managed to land himself in hot water with Indians, Mexicans, Malaysians, Americans ... in fact, pretty much everyone in the world
Published 03 October 2014
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News: Anti-litter crusader makes car drivers’ lives...

A girl on a motorcycle rides around looking for people throwing rubbish out of their car ‒ and throws it right back inside their vehicle...
Published 24 September 2014
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News: Lamborghini Countach toolkit on Ebay for £12,000

A toolkit for a Lamborghini Countach, one of the definitive supercars of the late 1970s and 1980s, is for sale on auction site Ebay at a “buy it...
Published 24 September 2014
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News: Survey reveals ladies like a man who drives a...

If you're a man who likes to drive an Audi convertible in his spare time, and not just to and from work, and who likes to take it for a spin along...
Published 22 September 2014
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News: Retired lawyer reunited with E-type stolen 46...

It was the year Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, racing driver Jim Clark was killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim ‒ and Ivan...
Published 19 September 2014
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News: Tycoon buys 30 red Rolls-Royce Phantoms at cost...

A Macau businessman has paid a reputed £12m for a fleet of 30 red, long-wheelbase Rolls-Royce Phantoms, but the car maker is remaining tight-lipped...
Published 18 September 2014