Lift the boot floor of a car built in the last fifteen years and there is a reasonable chance there is no spare wheel under it. In its place is…
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There is a seventeen-character string on every car built since the early 1980s - visible through the windscreen at the bottom of the glass, stamped on a plate…
Every tyre on every car has a built-in gauge telling you when it is worn out, and almost nobody uses it, largely because almost nobody knows it is there.
It…
On a great many cars there is a line of text etched into the passenger-side mirror warning that objects are closer than they appear, and nothing of the kind on…
A modern car will park itself, watch the lane markings, brake on your behalf and tell you the tyre pressures.
The thing it does about the sun is a flap…
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Drag racing was the most accessible motorsport ever invented. The format required a straight piece of tarmac, two cars and somebody to say go, and in the nineteen-sixties…