Garlands of plaited greenery, twinkling baubles dusted with pseudo-snow, a sudden influx of extravagantly decorated conifers… Shop windows, city squares and house fronts start to show alarming symptoms of Christmas fever. After making the same diagnosis, Chrysler’s service and customer care organisation Mopar decided to jump on the Yule train […]
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2014 Los Angeles Auto Show highlights (mega gallery)
With the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show well and truly underway, we’d thought we’d put together one of our usual mega galleries for you to check out some of the highlights. There were a number of international debuts at this year’s event, including the new Volkswagen Golf R Variant wagon, […]
‘Tractor Girl’ on her way to South Pole in Massey Ferguson MF 5610
The realm of childhood dreams is vast and mighty. While some want to become a princess or an astronaut (or both), others yearn to drive to the end of the world… on a tractor. Dutch theatre maker Manon Ossevoort (38) is still one of the latter, but that will soon […]
UK bus company introduces poo-powered ‘Bio-Bus’
First of all, it does not smell bad. The makers of UK’s first bio-bus powered entirely by human and food waste made sure of that. The 40-seater is fuelled by bio-methane gas, which is generated by the treatment of sewage and food waste. It can travel up to 300km on […]
Video: Amazing record truck jump, leaps over Lotus F1 car
The Lotus F1 team and its major sponsor EMC have teamed up for a world record-breaking new marketing campaign which involves a Renault truck jumping over a moving F1 car. That’s right. In a short clip released online, a Renault semi trailer has set a new world record for the […]
Video: New world record tightest parallel park set in China
Do you think you’re a good parker? Think again. Chinese stunt driver Han Yue has broken the world record for the tightest parallel park, using the latest MINI Cooper S three-door. During the China Drift Championship held in Chongqing, and under the tight supervision of Guinness World Records staff, Han […]
Mercedes-Benz artistically celebrates 17 million Facebook Fans
Mercedes-Benz’s fan community on Facebook exceeded the 17 million mark this month. To celebrate the milestone, the brand with the star has created a wall-mounted tape installation depicting the exterior of the new Mercedes-AMG GT coupe. A few designers spent numerous hours trying to create a detailed image of the […]
Opel Astra Google Street View car crashed in Serbia
Regrettably, our newspapers are all too often littered with sorrowful reports of car collisions. Maybe that is why an article about a crashed Opel Astra in Serbia does not seem striking enough for you at first. This reader’s apathy, however, will doubtlessly change when the very same Opel Astra turns […]