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Winner of the international bicycle design competition in Taipei the 'sawyer' by sculptor and designer Jurgen Kuipers is a bicycle IKEA might sell – a flat pack low-rider made from sheets of plywood. A surreal twist to what is otherwise a fairly conventional-looking beach cruiser is its availability as a 1:1 scale non-functional model kit,...

Drivers who value the environmental and financial advantages of buying second hand cars will pleased to hear that prices look set to drop. CAP, publisher of the Black Book price guide used by the used car trade, warns of a “shadow hanging over the market”, but what might be bad for dealers is good for the buying public. Prices during the...

The ban on women riding bicycles in Saudi Arabia has been lifted according to reports by Al Jazeera and daily newspaper al-Yawn. Head of Saudi Arabia's Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, is quoted as saying that it's not the commission's "job to search or follow women who drive bikes", which is understandable because...

Will it be possible for a new design of car to redress the imbalance that exists between much of technology and nature? Designer and engineer Jim Kor believes so and set out to build one of the most world’s most environmentally-sustainable powered vehicles; the Urbree is designed to efficiently store and use exactly the amount of solar and...

Not content with helping originate pneumatic tyres, ball bearings, asphalt roads, lightweight steel tubing and powered flight, cycling has brought the world the collapsible wheel. The folding wheel was originally conceived as a folding bicycle wheel by Duncan Fitzsimmons when he was a graduate student at the Royal College of Arts. Following...

Having already established a reputation as the Pope who takes the bus, Pope Francis will take another step towards cementing his image as the people's pontiff when he takes delivery of the first ever pedal-powered Popemobile. The entirely carbon-neutral, pedal-powered Popemobile was originally commissioned by the Environmental Transport...

It seems like however stout your lock or careful you are about where you leave your bicycle, thieves will find a way to pinch your pride and joy. So why not make it harder to spot in the first place? Artist and designer Jimmy Kuehnle has done just that. The bicycle has has built is almost entirely transparent, except for the chain and...

It’s a tank masquerading as a stretched limo; 8-inch armour plating, solid tyres and independent air supply make it immune to bombs, missiles and chemical attack, but the US Presidential limousine, a car designed to carry and protect the world’s most powerful man has an Achilles heel – the petrol-powered, 8-ton vehicle is as vulnerable to...

It might be the car around which the Popemobile is built, but it’s unlikely the Mercedes G-Glass is the car Jesus would drive. In its standard incarnation, the G55 AMG returns no more than 13mpg around town and emits CO2 at a rate of more than 370g/km. The addition of two additional driven wheels has done little to improve its environmental...

In the time it takes to read this sentence, 15 tyres will burst, 15,000 litres of fuel will be burnt and over 120,000 miles will be driven on Britain’s roads, according to the world’s first road statistic counter. The launch of the online counter coincides with the great Easter getaway, the weekend each year during which millions of...