If you ever have to outrun the police in a vehicle chase, forget about using a car, or motorcycle or scooter. Use a bicycle, as this suspect somewhere in America did. It looks like he made it, too.
January 18, 2016
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If you ever have to outrun the police in a vehicle chase, forget about using a car, or motorcycle or scooter. Use a bicycle, as this suspect somewhere in America did. It looks like he made it, too.
A valuable Pagani Zonda supercar has been crashed for the second time in the UK. The car was being driven back from its annual MOT test by the bodyguard of the current owner. However the driver lost control of the high-performance vehicle and crashed it into a fence. In court the driver explained that he had been shifting his seat for better comfort, when his foot slipped onto the accelerator pedal. However this account differed from his original statement to the police in which he claimed he had swerved to
Next year Volvo CE will be testing electric, hybrid and autonomous vehicles in a quarry. Carl Slotte, head of sales for EMEA, says no company by itself will win market share.
David Arminas reports from Germany
The driver of the charter bus stood outside the hotel in Trier, Germany, and waved at a passing local city bus. “I know the driver,” he told one of the assembled journalists waiting for the group’s ride to the nearby Volvo CE plant. “He is retired but they brought him back because young people th
Polish police prevented a Punto from proceeding after spotting a cow jammed into the back of the car. The driver, a farmer, had been transporting the young cow back to his farm, using his Fiat Punto. The car had been modified with the addition of straw and a wooden interior so as to allow animals to be carried. The police were less than impressed however and told the farmer that the car was too small to be used in such a fashion. Instead, the officers instructed the farmer to walk the animal back to his pro
A Trabant-based tank tour now tempts tourists travelling to German capital Berlin. A firm offers visitors a guided trip around Berlin in a replica of a tank, which is based on the chassis of the East German-made Trabant car. The replica tank is intended as a joke given the diminutive size of the vehicle and it sports a mock-up of a weapon on its roof. Some locals have found the joke somewhat less than amusing however. The firm runs a total fleet of some 50 Trabants in all, which it uses to provide tourists
