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Kindle-style E Ink traffic signs introduced in Sydney

A new type of traffic sign that uses the same digital display technology as found in e-readers, such as the Amazon Kindle, has been launched in Sydney...
Published 28 July 2015
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Death roads, breakdowns and arrested for spying in...

An unguided trek around the wonders of Persia seems scary but a couple in their seventies took it, a breakdown and their arrest for alleged spying...
Published 27 July 2015
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Supercar spotters hit London for exotic cars summer...

A free motor show is lighting up London as exotic machines flock in from abroad. But the owners best beware authorities with new powers.
Published 27 July 2015

Me and My Classic Motor: 1968 Sunbeam Alpine series...

As a boy, Andrew Yeomans plastered his bedroom walls with posters of cars. There were the usual Italian beauties — Ferraris, Maseratis, Alfa...
Published 27 July 2015
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98% of drivers would fail theory test if they retook...

Fewer than one in 50 drivers remember enough of the Highway Code to pass their theory test again, a new study suggests.
Published 27 July 2015
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Mirror, signal, hijack: hackers take remote control...

Jeep has hastened to reassure British Cherokee drivers that its car will not be vulnerable to hackers...
Published 27 July 2015
Terrafugia flying car

Terrafugia flying car Mk 2 scheduled for take‑off...

Customers may still be awaiting delivery of the Terrafugia Transition flying car, but that has not stopped the maker pushing ahead with its new model...
Published 27 July 2015
Simoniz insect and tar remover review

Products: Simoniz insect and tar remover and Halfords...

It’s summer, and that means insects. While a bug’s life is no fun when it ends in an unforgiving collision with a car’s bumper, bonnet or windscreen...
Published 24 July 2015
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Test your knowledge: Where and when was the world’s...

The world’s first filling station wasn’t anything like the petrol station most of us would recognise today. But it proved to be exactly what one...
Published 24 July 2015
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Smartphone technology allows drivers to pay for fuel...

We all know how temptation kicks in once you set foot inside the shop at a petrol station. Magazines, fizzy drinks, freshly baked muffins and a cappuccino
Published 22 July 2015
The wrongs of overtaking on the inside: does being branded a careless driver fit the crime?

The wrongs of overtaking on the inside

Will Dron admits he was wrong to undertake a lane-hogger, but as the police exercise new powers, is three penalty points, a 40% rise in insurance...
Published 22 July 2015
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Formula Fourth Form victory launches teen into big...

A school engineering project may have helped uncover Britain’s next motor-racing champion: a 14-year-old who used an electric car built by himself...
Published 21 July 2015