Meanwhile, in Britain

The commercial is for the SportKa (a slightly sporty version), which was marketed as "the Ka's evil twin". The cat version was never shown on TV- but this one, with a pigeon, was briefly shown on TV in Britain. It got pulled after complaints- I don't know if the Advertising Standards Agency ordered it to be removed…

You want oversized? How about 21 feet long, 7,000 lbs and a 12.7-litre straight-eight? There would be a picture of the Bugatti Royale Limousine Park Ward here, but nibbles has eaten it.

A sailing boat. Specifically, an OVNI 385 (though with a slightly different spec to this one). Needs no fuel, so range limited only by food (a watermaker means you can get fresh water). Can be handled at a pinch by one person and with little trouble by two (though 3 is ideal). Aluminium hull for low maintenance,…

At a range? In self-defense? If you're a police officer? If you're more than a certain distance from a property line?

There are rumours that this closure was planned anyway- the NoW is a Sunday paper, and the same company also owns the Sun which is published every other day of the week. There have been murmurings that Murdoch planned to close the NoW and publish a Sunday edition of the Sun.

What goes clop clop BANG clop clop?

They're harder to ride than a normal bike as well- but apparently go faster.

The smoking ban on the Underground is because of the serious fire risk. In 1987, 31 people were killed in a fire at King's Cross station- even though smoking had been banned two years previously after another, non-fatal, fire, the King's Cross fire was probably caused by a discarded match falling into an escalator and…

I don't know- this apparently offers quite a lot of protection from IEDs despite being open.

No, hopefully the next SUV convertible we see will be more like this...

That makes Mercedes one of the two makes of car to be named after a Jew. The other one is Citroen.

They won't- one reason being the difference between the two countries' motorcycle industries. While France has no manufacturers of powerful bikes (though Peugeot and MBK make scooters), all the other large European countries make big bikes- Germany has BMW, Italy has Ducati and the UK has Triumph. They therefore don't…

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Hate to join the dogpile but: no suggestion of hate crime, just "isn't it crappy that someone who comes to this country to work hard and make a better life for himself gets run over by an idiot with a room-temperature IQ and no consideration for her fellow human beings."

Just scrolling down to check someone had posted Frau Benz. Most of the other women on this list are famous for being the "first woman to do X" or "most successful woman in Y-race-series" or "only female Z". What Bertha Benz did would have been almost as noteworthy, and still have got her a place in automotive history,…

The prototype of the Handley Page Victor bomber was transported from factory to airfield for its first flight in a container labelled "GELEYPANDHY SOUTHAMPTON", so it looked like a boat hull in transit. GELEYPANDHY was meant to be an anagram of Handley Page, but isn't due to a spelling error.

Hé! Tabernacle!

They shouldn't be on the sidewalk, a bicycle is a vehicle. If the bike lane is unsafe or non-existent, they should be in the traffic lane.