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Grandparents safer drivers than parents: study

Children are 33 per cent less likely to be injured in a car crash when their grandparents are driving rather than the children’s parents. New research by the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia revealed the...

Alfa Romeo Spider owner parks on slipway, car floats away

An antiques dealer from Southsea in Portsmouth, England has parked his Alfa Romeo Spider on the slipway for the last time. A particularly high tide earlier this month took hold of the man’s Italian sports car and dragged it away, although...

Cars kill trillions of bugs in Australia every year

A Dutch biologist has calculated that cars kill 133 billion insects every month in the Netherlands. Arnold van Vliet constructed the SplashTeller website in May, encouraging volunteers to count their kill number and add it to a national register.

The world’s most unreliable car – Monster Mk1

This is the Warranty Direct Monster Mk1 – the most unreliable car in the world. The UK insurance provider took the nine worst components from different vehicles based on a database of 50,000 policies.

NZ man sets own car on fire after it broke down

A 20-year-old New Zealand man is facing charges of wasting police time and making a false statement, and may have to cover the costs of a fire department call-out, after setting fire to his own car in anger after it broke down.

Man stands his ground and gets run over by girlfirend

A man is in critical condition in Orlando, Florida, in the US after he laid down in front of his girlfriend's car after a fight as a way of keeping her from leaving. The car then proceeded forward over the top of the man.

Ryan Dunn from Jackass dies in Porsche 911 crash

Ryan Dunn, the man best known for practical jokes and committing himself to wild and crazy adventures on the DVD series Jackass, was involved in a fatal accident on Monday morning when the Porsche 911 GT3 he was driving slid off the road and into...

Sat-nav system sends motorists into lake

Three people have escaped drowning in their car in the UK after the GPS satellite navigation system they were using sent them veering into a lake. The incident occurred at night time and they were not familiar with the area.

Batman Live Batmobile designed by Gordon Murray

So, what does someone who has already designed and development the once-fastest car in the world do in his spare time? Designs a Batmobile of course. Gordon Murray, the guy behind the famously fast McLaren F1 of the Nineties, has just unveiled the...