Isn't that a taxi, though?

1990 was the first year for the Lotus Carlton- the only car to have its morality debated in the House of Commons.

Really? I've heard that about the 544 as well. On the other hand, both were in production at the same time when seatbelts were introduced, so I'm not sure which was the first to get them.

Sorry, that wasn't Scania's A game. This is (Scania R730, 730 hp 16.4-litre V8)...

Well, the Kurdish shopkeepers in Hackney have avoided being looted due to calling up their extended families and all standing outside their shops with baseball bats. You don't fuck with the Kurds.

The Yamaha OX99-11. 3.5L V-12, two seats in tandem, a jet-fighter-style canopy and they only made 3.

It's not lawfulness- it's that the light in question is at the turning from a tiny sidestreet into a fairly major road. I don't trigger the lights so I get a green light- I trigger them so traffic in the main road gets a red and I don't get flattened by a bus.

To get the traffic light to change.

You don't need iron to trip the detector, just a sufficiently large conducting loop. I've done it with the aluminium frame of my bicycle (laid down horizontally over the detector).

I have often got lights to change by finding the seam in the road where the induction loop is and laying my bicycle down on top of it. I get weird looks if there are other bicyclists also waiting at that light, but it works.

Oddly enough, it would appear that he didn't steal the car (or at least he wasn't charged with that). He also pleaded guilty on all charges: dangerous driving, failing to stop at the scene of an accident, driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and resisting arrest.

In some areas, the Roads Policing Unit (traffic pursuit specialists), which PC Pascoe is part of, and the Armed Response Unit are the same people- given that Armed Response Units have to use large, high-powered cars anyway (you can't fit all their equipment in a diesel Astra) smaller forces decide to combine the two…

Was supposed to be a pic (a Bentley Speed Six, captioned "No, this is a Speed Six") but Nibbles ate it.

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"The fastest truck in the world".

The PV544- well, the tricky windows and the disintegrating seats are certainly "quirks", but more annoyance than personality. On the other hand, starting the engine is an art, and I think the car recognises me. After taking it out of winter storage, I started it right up and drove it to the shop for inspection. A few…

Nope- the IC-powered car will go the way of the horse in the medium-to-long term. Nobody commutes by horse anymore, but you still see them on the roads, and there are still businesses that exist to support them.

For some reason the hearse version seems less bad...

Well, maybe they shouldn't have arrested them either?