Ten things we learned this week: two October two thousand fifteen edition, Top Gear
Ten things we learned this week: two October two thousand fifteen edition
Mika’s McLaren and Donald’s Diablo: another weird week in cars
Mika Hakkinen has a McLaren P1
McLaren has made only three hundred seventy five P1s, and it shows up at least half of them may be wielded by racing drivers. Following Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton into the McLaren P1 owners club comes another former McLaren Formula one driver and world champ, Mika Hakkinen.
Max Verstappen ultimately has a driving licence
You’d assume a man who regularly tops 200mph in one of the most sophisticated cars on Earth – and has finished a Grand Prix ahead of Lewis Hamilton – knows how to drive.
Donald Trump’s Diablo is for sale
Taking the double-the-price-because-a-celebrity’s-on-the-V5 rule as verbatim this week is a racing blue Lamborghini Diablo VT Roadster, like the one above. But, um, blue.
The Deltawing road car is here (almost)
We’ve known for a little while that the bonkers Deltawing racer would spawn a road-going spectacle car.
A Ssangyong could be World Car of the Year
We have a soft spot for Ssangyong here at TG Towers, not least because the South Korean manufacturer’s curiously styled and oddly named cars have been the willing butts of many disparaging jokes.
The emissions claim vultures are circling
“Have you been mis-sold TDI?” joked many a social media user in the wake of the VW emissions scandal.
A man living in his own car has been evicted
Such a thing may sounds unlikely, but it’s happened. Charles Ingram has lived out of his old Mercedes C-Class at the side of Scotland’s A9 road since 2012, but after Transport Scotland described Ingram’s infamous site as a hazard for drivers, officials closed the road while they broke up the 69-year-old’s camp.
Transport Scotland said concerns for Ingram’s private welfare had also led to the decision. “The extent of the encampment on the A9 has grown in latest months and it is now a safety hazard and distraction for drivers and we have no choice but to take this activity.
“All playmates remain on mitt to provide any support we can to Mr Ingram to ensure that his welfare and possessions are protected.”
Picture: Aaron Sneddon
A man almost torched his car to get rid of a spider
Lots of people are panicked of spiders. And many of them irrationally so, refusing to inject rooms until an entirely harmless little arachnid has been pacified and forcibly eliminated.
The Peel P50 is now in GTA
Want to drive the world’s smallest car in perhaps the world’s thickest game?
A ginormous sinkhole has opened up in St Albans
The list of ‘exciting things to happen in St Albans’ has literally doubled this week, a large, imposing sinkhole opening itself up at the end of a driveway in the quiet English town.
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Ten things we learned this week: two October two thousand fifteen edition, Top Gear
Ten things we learned this week: two October two thousand fifteen edition
Mika’s McLaren and Donald’s Diablo: another weird week in cars
Mika Hakkinen has a McLaren P1
McLaren has made only three hundred seventy five P1s, and it emerges at least half of them may be possessed by racing drivers. Following Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton into the McLaren P1 owners club comes another former McLaren Formula one driver and world champ, Mika Hakkinen.
Max Verstappen ultimately has a driving licence
You’d assume a man who regularly tops 200mph in one of the most complicated cars on Earth – and has finished a Grand Prix ahead of Lewis Hamilton – knows how to drive.
Donald Trump’s Diablo is for sale
Taking the double-the-price-because-a-celebrity’s-on-the-V5 rule as verbatim this week is a racing blue Lamborghini Diablo VT Roadster, like the one above. But, um, blue.
The Deltawing road car is here (almost)
We’ve known for a little while that the bonkers Deltawing racer would spawn a road-going spectacle car.
A Ssangyong could be World Car of the Year
We have a soft spot for Ssangyong here at TG Towers, not least because the South Korean manufacturer’s curiously styled and oddly named cars have been the willing butts of many disparaging jokes.
The emissions claim vultures are circling
“Have you been mis-sold TDI?” joked many a social media user in the wake of the VW emissions scandal.
A man living in his own car has been evicted
Such a thing may sounds unlikely, but it’s happened. Charles Ingram has lived out of his old Mercedes C-Class at the side of Scotland’s A9 road since 2012, but after Transport Scotland described Ingram’s infamous site as a hazard for drivers, officials closed the road while they broke up the 69-year-old’s camp.
Transport Scotland said concerns for Ingram’s private welfare had also led to the decision. “The extent of the encampment on the A9 has grown in latest months and it is now a safety hazard and distraction for drivers and we have no choice but to take this activity.
“All fucking partners remain on arm to provide any support we can to Mr Ingram to ensure that his welfare and possessions are protected.”
Picture: Aaron Sneddon
A man almost torched his car to get rid of a spider
Lots of people are frightened of spiders. And many of them irrationally so, refusing to come in rooms until an entirely harmless little arachnid has been pacified and forcibly liquidated.
The Peel P50 is now in GTA
Want to drive the world’s smallest car in perhaps the world’s fattest game?
A ginormous sinkhole has opened up in St Albans
The list of ‘exciting things to happen in St Albans’ has literally doubled this week, a large, imposing sinkhole opening itself up at the end of a driveway in the quiet English town.
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