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Hollywood’s highest-paid actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, has taken delivery of his new hi-tech hybrid 2012 Fisker Karma. DiCaprio, a long-term environmental activist who earned $77 million last year, has ditched his Toyota Prius hybrid in favour of...
Two feet became the official benchmark distance between a good and bad idea yesterday in Roseville, Michigan, when a 24-year-old man in a brakeless pickup truck attempted to – cue the duelling banjos – use his feet against the macadam as...
Maybach knows exactly how it feels to be the second horse in a one-horse race. It’s a kind of ‘trying too hard’, ‘me too’ Rolls-Royce Phantom that declines to look elegant despite being expensively coiffed, and which has failed to live up...
If you had a $200-million-plus crime spree going on all around you, and the cops were doing essentially nothing, would you be outraged? Most people I know would be at least upset.
August hasn’t been a happy month for Honda. Earlier this month, in addition to the recall of 2.5 million vehicles, respected news agency Reuters issued a compendium of the damning US assessments of the 2012 Honda Civic.
After emerging as the world’s number one car manufacturer for the first half of the year, General Motors has declared it will cut the number of platforms in its inventory by more than half – from 30 in 2010 to just 14 by 2018.
Auto accessories are generally quite conservative. You’ve got your seat covers, your floor mats, your driving lights. That is, before before you jump into the Twilight Zone, where you can witness some of the greatest automotive travesties of...
Dumb-est ever automotive accessories for your smart phone? And the winner is: the Steer Safe hands-free car kit. What could be safer than clipping your iPhone, Blackberry or Galaxy S to the rim of your steering wheel? (Answer: Turning up to interview...
This Goodyear video is brilliant – 113 years of history in under three minutes. If only high school had been like that… It’s a pretty cool wrap-up: Everything from the birth of the company in 1898 to its 2009 role in designing...
The old joke among tyre engineers is also one of the tyre game’s bigger issues. See, the difference between good tyres and bad tyres is that they are both black, and round. However tremendous the gulf in performance separating a really good tyre...