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Part of the festivities surrounding the Tour de France each year involves spectators daubing the roads with painted slogans. It’s likely that British authorities would take a dim view of such high jinks in the salubrious areas of London and Surrey through which the 2012 Olympic Games cycle road race will pass, but how about decorating the...

A new type of flying car promises motorists the chance to avoid traffic jams and cross lakes, rivers or mountain ranges like an eagle at speeds over 100mph. It was with unfortunate timing that footage of the PAL-V ONE’s maiden flight was released on 1st April, because this remarkable vehicle is no joke. In road going mode, the PAL-V ONE is...

A micro car that makes a Smart car look big and a Fiat 500 seem positively portly is once again available to buy, 48 years after production stopped in 1964. The single seat Peel P50 has held the title of World’s Smallest Production Car for over 50 years – at a little over 1m in length and weighing in at 59kg, the runabout is so diminutive...

The country that convinced the world that the humble pen knife should be a multifunctional tool boasting over thirty features has crammed a kitchen, dining table and double bed into the back of a small family car. The swissRoomBox modular system transforms almost any size of car into a motorhome of sorts. Prices start at around £2,700. Most...

Most people want a strategic road network that is safe, reliable, high quality and with traffic that flows freely – and the ETA believes the best way of achieving it is to directly charge the driver for each mile used. Road user charging would gather the funds to provide well-engineered highways to access every town in Britain. Such...

Many of the millions of bicycles that lie languishing unused in garden sheds, cast aside in roadside verges or abandoned at bike racks around the country are to be offered a new lease of life by a new bicycle-rehoming organisation called Battersea Cogs Home. Battersea Cogs Home has been rescuing, restoring and rehoming abandoned bicycles...

It will come as little surprise to London motorists that the city has once again topped a league table of the world’s most expensive places to park. Monthly parking rates in the city of London now exceed £700 according to research firm Colliers Motorists outside the capital pay less eye-watering rates; parking costs less than 20p per hour...

It looks like little more than a bog-standard street cleaning machine, but the Python 5000 could be the saviour of the disgruntled cyclists and car drivers for whom potholes are a daily curse. It is not clear whether the machine patches potholes better than traditional methods, but it is likely to be quicker; one person can operate the...

One of the world’s biggest bicycle brands has launched what it claims is an entirely new category of eBike: a speed-focused, high-tech urban bike that just happens to have an electric motor. The Specialized Turbo boasts beautifully-clean lines and a frame unencumbered by clunky-looking batteries or unsightly cables, but it is not quite as...

Motorcyclists have long enjoyed a choice of helmet-mounted radios that allow them to stay in touch with each other, but now cyclists can buy the world’s first Bluetooth Communication and Entertainment System for bicycle helmets. The cardo BK-1 allows simultaneous intercom communication between up to 3 cyclists at distances of up to 500 m....