In the otherwise stuffy world of motor-engineering development, it is nice to know there is what passes as humour. Competing automakers routinely benchmark their vehicles against others with which they would like to be compared.
The build-up to the new Jeremy Clarkson TV offering called the Grand Tour is beginning, although an actual launch date is still to be confirmed. As the lack of Jeremy and gang seems to be creating withdrawal symptoms for some of our readers, we put our collective thinking caps on in the office and came up with some of our favourite Jeremy quotes, and some from the other two as well.
Police chiefs in the Northern English county of Yorkshire were almost left red-faced after their new batch of Vauxhall Astra patrol cars turned up with the word “POLCE” painted big and bold on each side.
Last October, there was another toll price hike for 18 highways in Malaysia. I pass three tolls to get from the suburb, where I live, to Kuala Lumpur city centre – I now pay 42% more in toll fees for each return trip to the city. Sudden toll rate hikes, abrupt petrol price surges (when the subsidy was still in place), and now steep increase in parking rates…I’m not even surprised nor annoyed anymore.
While the Pokémon Go game has taken over the US of A like a fast-spreading zombie virus which has people walking around in a sort of stupor, staring at their phones, wandering into restricted/dangerous zones, banging into innocent pedestrians and getting banged by cars, we who are living in the rest of the world are still eagerly anticipating the game’s launch in our countries.
Honda has released a new advert that is raising quite a few eyebrows, especially amongst the law enforcement community. The carmaker’s commercial, targeting the Israeli market, seems to suggest that you can only truly appreciate the new Honda Civic R if you get your female partner to fake going into labour in the passenger seat if you are pulled over.