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Some years ago, a study to find the car with the highest British content found it was a Volvo, built in Sweden! Plenty of cars were built in...

I was attempting to joke - it's the gearshift. Back then, it wasn't unknown for the driver to get a blister in his palm from changing gear at...

And also how he keeps playing with some stick off to the right of the wheel, even when changing gear - so he must have had both an 'up' and a...

I remember thinking I had seen the future when a civil engineer friend was provided with one of these by his company for site work: [IMG]...

OK, nerd's question: what's with the extra deep glovebox? It looks like it's had some crash padding added to it - doesn't that get in the way of...

What a lovely closed-throttle crackle.

But don't the Mini convertibles, of all sorts, pass that test already?

You've got to hope that they won't make 17" wheels and sport suspension an available option in India - it is 15 years since I was last there, but...

Though not strictly accurate - any time two Red Bulls are that close together, they'll hit each other, won't they?

If we're trading guys with an unnatural interest in mountains and a defective self-preservation chip, Jean Yves Blondeau (aka Buggy Rollin) must...

I would never suggest for a moment that the US attitude was 'socialist', just business-oriented - the fans like to see lots of competition at the...

Bear in mind that Formula 1, as a predominantly Europe-oriented sport, has always had a different balance between absolute competition and public...

This year, it's more than just choosing a compromise between low drag (good on the straights, but slow on the corners) and higher downforce...

It makes me proud see that even twenty years later, the superb Mini rust prevention system is still operating faultlessly with a regular...

Here is the Israeli-American company Better Place web site showing the battery swap stations they plan to install in Israel, in addition to...

Thanks, Friskie, I wondered if it came from somewhere else: Howdy Doody - Cowabonga - YouTube

I sprayed ordinary DIY store silicon spray into the top and bottom grooves of the back of each seal - obviously I didn't do this on top of the car...

Back in the 1960s I saw this idea studied for electric city cars but it has a fundamental practical problem: - If you own your battery, would you...

I was assuming it was dad's money bought them all, even if junior drives it. But then I could just be an old fart and that is what successful...