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Like so many people, Orhan Turan, a citizen of Turkey, decided to buy a car that would join the impressive flow of cars in the country. Cars are often perceived as a symbol of success and freedom, and as an object supposed to make life much easier. This is only because people, like Mr. Turan, […]
Last January, BBC America screened a very surprising documentary about two American mechaphiles – men who are sexually obsessed with cars. They literally feel, see and talk about their cars like people sexually attracted to other human beings; apparently they even use the same area of their brain in the process. It is in a […]
A surprising monument was built last year in Moscow to remind people about the dangers of drink-driving. The 12-metre monument shaped like a bottle, is filled with lots of crushed vehicles – not really the epitome of good aesthetics. The monument was made during the run-up to the Worldwide Day of Remembrance of Victims of […]
Eris Steward, an 81-year-old Australian, experienced addiction to cars in an original way. He left home to go shopping one morning, but ended up more than 600km away. “I just went out on the road to have a drive, a nice peaceful quiet drive. I didn’t know where I was going but I knew it […]
Last December, the organisation Consumers International published its Bad Company Awards for 2009, recognising excellence in the noble field of greenwashing. Among the four winners, next to Microsoft and EasyJet, Audi was awarded for its “far-reaching TV and Internet advertising campaign that appeared to claim that its Audi A3 TDI could be run on “clean […]
Often we get the impression that some people have more consideration for their car than for anything else: they work for their car, they work to upgrade it on weekends, they drive to relax, they drive to go to work, they drive to go for holidays… And there are a lot of useless things available […]
Car manufacturers are probably among the best greenwashers and would deserve many awards in this category. They all promote their environmental actions on their websites and seem to find new ways to promote the beauty of nature and their efforts to preserve it. On Ford’s Belgian website you can find out that “they are implementing […]
The number of cup holders used to be one of the most important aspects for Americans when buying a new car. This particularity is probably connected to the fast-food culture and the culture of consuming as much as possible. According to a consumer survey by Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the consumption of fuel has become a more […]
We do not all share the same dreams, and Chris Lentz’s dream definitely differs from that of Carbusters. This native of Michigan, US wanted to give more power to his 2005 Ford F-150, and found a way to accomplish it: he bought an old Czechoslovakian Motorlet M-701 turbojet on eBay for US$12,000 and attached it […]
A collective of motorists from Colorado, US, in summer 2008 launched a call for civil disobedience against the extension of bicyclist’s rights and the state’s new law – about a minimum distance to keep between cars and cyclists while passing them. They distributed an amazing flyer explaining that “cyclist flout common sense, endanger those in […]
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