The Swedish research company Løøflirpa announced a startling new breakthrough in biofuels: a car engine that runs on urine. “It’s unbelievable,” said Løøflirpa spokesperson Avril d’Poisson. “This could change the way we fill up our cars forever.”

The breakthrough was made by researcher Tonto Necio. “It was just serendipity. One of my laboratory assistants, Majkat Jokaar, had been working a long shift and was obviously getting rather desperate, so he made use of a handy glass beaker, as he was in the middle of ......

It’s like a jungle, sometimes it makes me wonder. How I keep from going under…

Don’t normally comment on car advertising but probably should do a little bit more because there are some weird and wonderful ads out there.  Some car ads have been shockers but some are very memorable.  Other just hit the spot for some reason.  Probably not surprising when you consider the amount of money car makers pour into TV adverts, there’s going to be plenty of notable hits and misses.

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The quirky Brits are at it again, trying to regain the record for the World’s fastest lawnmower, currently held by another quirky guy from the USA.

“Project Running Blade” hopes to take a “more-or-less everyday ride-on mower above 100mph (160kph)”. The current record stands at 81mph and was set in 2006 at Bonneville Salt Flats (the favourite haunt of many World record attempts-so this is serious stuff) by American Bob Cleveland.

“This is a proper record, and building a lawnmower capable of speeds well into 3 ......

When we listed the ten worst driving habits in our last newsletter and on our blog here, some readers responded that bad habits are directly related to bad roads.  Fair point we thought…

So when we had this email arrive in our ‘in box’ we had to put it on the blog.

This really is a road in Bolivia, that we would all dread to drive on.

Read on and see if you could imagine yourself at the wheel.

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