March 2008 Archives
Top ten tunes to drive to according to Planet Rock
Posted by Steve Orme on March 28, 2008 2:38 PM
Staying to the end of this week’s theme, radar and how we should all learn to love its application in traffic law enforcement, here is the top ten tunes to drive to as voted by toase decening isteners to Planet Rock, the digital radio station no one has ever heard of:
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Learn to love the GATSO
Posted by Steve Orme on March 27, 2008 2:02 PM
You've bin had
Following on from yesterday’s I don’t believe feature, the Institute of Advanced Motorists, that worthy body that taught us in days of old how to drive while balancing a house brick on the transmission tunnel* claims that over 70% of motorists have come to love the speed camera as surely as we all came to love the bomb.
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Driving in Portsmouth is just one big yawn
Posted by Steve Orme on March 26, 2008 11:39 AM
Flouting the law big style
Whatever the law is on driving while using a mobile it is being ignored.I say whatever because some drivers have been done for the most innocuous of things, moving a phone to the passenger seat for instance, while a growing number seem to think it’s year of the mobile and can’t get off the things even in the most distracting of circumstances, you know, upside down in a field and that sort of carry on.
But this one really beats me.
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Buy a car you silly moo- cows are new greenhouse villains
Posted by Steve Orme on March 25, 2008 2:01 PM
Cow or car-it's up to you
Apparently cows are now guilty of polar bear murder.
It turns out that each bovine gently ruminating pumps out more death gas than a car.
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Mind bending equipmeent on Merc 200 -road test
Posted by Steve Orme on March 22, 2008 2:05 PM
Scientists in California say they are on the verge of developing a device that reads minds.
Can you imagine being wired up to a machine on the dash giving you a picture of what other drivers are thinking?
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Cod power from Norway- the TH!NK electric car
Posted by Steve Orme on March 20, 2008 12:13 PM
Think of Norway and you don’t immediately associate it with cars. Oh dear no.
People who keep pet cod, yes, hugely expensive trips not to see the northern lights, yes. But cars? What up a fiord without a paddle? I don’t think so.
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Boom time is not close for hydrogen cars
Posted by Steve Orme on March 19, 2008 1:35 PM
This has been a bad year for biofuels. What seemed like a good idea at the time has fallen foul, or even fowl, of a huge rise in the cost of grain and a sustained attack from the rainbow beards.
Added to that, people in emerging economies where the staple diet was boiled grass, have rightly decided that they deserve better than starvation in the streets for 40 hours a week making sustainable wooden washing machines.
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Sat-nav disasters leave drivers up the creek
Posted by Steve Orme on March 18, 2008 9:32 AM
Easter looms and with it the annual tour of Britain sets out as drivers who have spent the entire winter watching East Enders head off in search of Emmerdale. Sometimes with consequences of Coronation Street proportions.
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Britain is bumping and grinding to the scrap heap
Posted by Steve Orme on March 13, 2008 4:11 PM
‘Serious road accidents are caused by motorists driving with their rear suspension ‘bottoming out’ resulting in a loss of steering control, ineffective braking and raised headlights that blind oncoming drivers – but now there is a simple solution, claims a new report.’
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Clio 197 Cup road test, the car with the less fattening centre
Posted by Steve Orme on March 13, 2008 1:27 PM
According to a story in the Daily Middle Class, obesity is now as great a threat to the planet as climate change.
Apparently being a right fatty can take up to nine years off a person’s life and trigger a host of unpleasant illnesses, diseases and dress sizes. However, I suspect the main worry for Hyacinth Buckets everywhere is that one of these lumpfish may move in next door, with their smelly chip pans and coarse beer drinking, reducing property values and offending the WI.
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Inventiveness? It's all in the mind
Posted by Steve Orme on March 12, 2008 1:30 PM
Some hydrogen technology can be cumbersome
What exciting times we live in. Flying cars by 2010, another hydrogen fuel cell engine announced, this time by the very British Morgan, and Chelsea Clinton’s teeth win the Ohio primary.
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Youth is wasted on the young - and the Civic Type R-road test
Posted by Steve Orme on March 10, 2008 1:22 PM
What counts as a cool car among the young is not what turns on the greys among us. They may oggle the Vauxhall VXR8 but it’s not cool. BMW’s 135 Coupe won’t even register in the world of ambient interior back lighting.
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Saab rapped for bio fuel claims
Posted by Steve Orme on March 6, 2008 11:56 AM
Saab was not actually trying to convince you the plane could land on a car, or indeed that you would become a handsome fighter pilot if you bought this old 900
When someone says to you ‘ooh, I could eat a milkman’s horse between two bread vans’, or ‘I’ll go to the foot of our stairs and kiss your aunty’ they don’t actually have a pony butty or naked twister in mind. It’s a figure of speech.
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End motoring crime now - do away with speed limits
Posted by Steve Orme on March 4, 2008 11:15 AM
Driving off without paying for petrol would no longer be an offence
What fabulous news. In the imagination of someone in Whitehall 24-hour licensing has resulted in a drop in violent crime.
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Renault Laguna Sport Tourer road test-
Posted by Steve Orme on March 3, 2008 9:41 AM
Bolly knickers and Hunt not in a Laguna
Overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline-alcoholic, homophobe DCI Gene Hunt, is back.
Ashes to Ashes, will send a tsunami of nostalgia washing through the nation’s living rooms. Nothing quite prompts gushing, blind, remember the good old days sentimentality like cars.
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