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Renault sets its sights on scooters. With a car
By Visordown News on 01/03/2011 14:19:22
CAR maker Renault has decided to challenge for a slice of the scooter market – but with a car rather than a bike.Today it's announced the price, in Europe at least, of its all-electric Twizy, which is designed specifically to tempt commuters who
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Biker escapes serious injury after head goes through car windscreen
By Visordown News on 26/05/2010 15:30:28
Close call for motorcyclist AND car driver
A STUNTING MOTORCYCLIST in America has escaped death and serious injury after hitting a car head-on, resulting in the rider's head becoming lodged in the vehicle's windscreen.Local police have said the man, 31-year-old Karream Crenshaw
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Volvos voted most hated car by British bikers
By Visordown News on 10/10/2008 00:01:00
Bennetts survey shows Swedish manufacturer still rates as the most disliked by UK motorcyclists
VOLVOS HAVE been voted the most hated car on the road in a survey of British motorcyclists. The Swedish car manufacturer topped the Bennetts poll with almost a third (28%) of UK bikers dreading an encounter with a Volvo. The survey released today
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KTM X-Bow car to cost £38k
By Admin on 07/09/2007 14:00:44
Desmosedici RR price tag for KTM's first car
THE radical KTM X-Bow is the first car to be produced by the Austrian motorcycle manufacturer and will cost just under £38,000 when it goes on sale in the UK in Spring 2008.KTM is aiming its 2-litre turbocharged car at the Ariel Atom and Caterham
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USA set for mobile in-car switch-off?
By Visordown News on 19/11/2010 11:56:57
"I think the technology is there" says US Transportation Sec.
PLANS ARE UNDERWAY in the USA to prevent the ever-increasing problem of drivers using their mobile phones while on the move, which include a new, hi-tech scrambling system that could disable mobiles while in a moving vehicle."I think it will be done," US Secretary of Transportati...
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Want a car? No! You want a Rocket Shield!
By Visordown News on 11/06/2008 09:45:45
Weird contraption designed to help you ride up to 150mph in increased comfort.
Rocketshield ... it could take off"TODAY, Dragon's I'm offering you five percent of my company for £5m. I call it... the Rocketshield."No, not a device for keeping missile off your bonce while riding along, but a strange kind of 'super fairing' designed and built built by America...
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Most new cars 'to be Internet-ready by 2014'
By Visordown News on 15/02/2013 11:25:06
Sorry mate I was looking at Facebook...
AS IF drivers needed yet another distraction, experts are predicting most major-brand cars will have full Internet connectivity as soon as the end of next year. Jack Bergquist of IHS told the BBC that 'by the end of 2014, for some of the bigger
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MythBusters claim cars are greener than bikes
By Visordown News on 30/09/2011 11:21:13
TV's Mythbusters say bikes aren't as eco-friendly as you'd think
THE latest episode of US hit TV series Mythbusters has revealed that while bikes use far less fuel than cars they can't come close to matching them when it comes to exhaust emissions.The show's hosts, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, tested three
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Ten MILLION car journeys a day logged by Police
By Visordown News on 15/09/2008 09:33:09
Civil liberty groups call for answers after 'Big Brother' scheme is uncovered
THERE IS a call for explanation after it has been revealed that as many as ten MILLION car journeys a day in the UK are being logged by the police.A civil liberty group has said the information about where and how road users get about
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Biker critical following collision with car
By Tim Skilton on 31/10/2007 08:36:46
Police appeal for witnesses
POLICE HAVE launched an appeal for witnesses to come forward following a collision between a car and a motorbike, which left the rider in a critical condition.The incident happened on Monday 29th October at Castlemorton Common in Welland, near
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