is long overdue – how about making it look like the RC-E, Mr Honda?Elsewhere on the stand there's the tiny, folding Motor Compo, an electric scooter which slots into the firm's Micro Commuter Concept car, and the frankly awful three-wheeled E

Playboy Doohan and his chopperFORMER 500CC world champion Mick Doohan's Mercedes supercar is for sale through Mercedes-Benz Australia.The car's one of only 55 built carrying the signature IWC Ingenieur, in honour of the German watchmaker.Doohan liked the car's dark titanium colou...

with machine that was leaked earlier in the year. Where that was a production-viable, petrol-engined bike, the concept Honda has now revealed is a much smaller electric bike, albeit with the same suitcase-inspired styling as the original Motocompo of the 1980s

WHEN we saw Yamaha's pre-show releases – the XTW250 Ryoku and Y125 Moegi, plus a couple of electric mopeds – we guessed that the firm had something more spectacular up its sleeve that it was holding back to reveal at the show itself.We guessed wrong

THE UNIVERSITY of Tasmania in Australia has developed its first hybrid electric and ethanol scooter engine, whci charges the batteries on the bike every time you hit the brakes. The system, developed by Steven Ambrose, a research scholar in the Uni's Engineering School, the feat...

DANI Pedrosa and Nicky Hayden will not have the new pneumatic motor fitted to their Hondas for the French round of the MotoGP championship this weekend – but will test it immediately after raceday before deciding if the new lump will be used

US CAR GIANT General Motors has teamed up with Chinese partner Shanghai Automotive Industry to produce this new new concept vehicle, dubbed the EN-V.It looks like an electric car but the EN-V rides on just two wheels, making it a fully enclosed

OVER 50,000 Institute of the Motor Industry students were whittled down to just 27 finalists, of which three were Suzuki Apprentice Scheme students, for the 2007 IMI Learning Skills Awards.Hosted by IMI patron, HRH Prince Michael of Kent, the short

Bloody hell - how cool is that?Stunning quality fresh from Eastern EuropeA POLISH design company has developed and patented a new engine, and designed this radical motorcycle around it. The JJ2S X4 500 is a 2-stroke, 500cc radial lump housed in a

years before joining AMA Supersport in 2002.Spies has also ridden in MotoGP in 2008, starting in place of injured Loris Capirossi at the British GP, finishing 14th place scoring his first MotoGP points. He had a further 2 wildcard outings, achieving 8th