Fun stuff
Prince Charles converts sports car to run on wine
Thanks to Johan over at Arniston Bay for the following article:
Prince Charles has converted his vintage Aston Martin car, given to him on his 21st birthday by Queen Elizabeth II, to run on English wine, a spokesperson said.
The move, part of the prince’s green drive to reduce by 12.5% his carbon footprint up to 2012, […]
Poking fun at the Tata Nano
Tata’s Nano was launched last week to much fanfare and very high expectations for the success of the diminutive vehicle, but almost immediately has become the brunt of jokes by motor fans worldwide. While a lot of this criticism might be unfair (at least until the vehicle has actually been driven by independant testers), some […]
GreenCars in this year’s SA Blog Awards
Well, it seems that GreenCars is up for nomination for this year’s SA Blog awards in the “Best Green Blog” category. Thanks to everyone who voted for us to be nominated. Competition is very stiff, and there’s some great blogs in this category - wishing everyone the best of luck. I’m fairly certain who’ll win […]
Time Magazine’s 50 Best Inventions of the Year – including 3 electric cars!
Time Magazine, in a November 2008 special edition, celebrated what it sees as the fifty most important inventions of the year, including some green motoring items.
FUH2
Ok, so GreenCars is about 5 years behind the times on this one, but we’ve stumbled across a wonderful site called FUH2.
In short, it’s an entire Web site dedicated to displaying user-submitted images of people flipping Hummers the bird. In fact it’s become so common now, that the finger is often referred to as the […]
Rules of driving in Gauteng
I found this on the MyADSL Forums, which in turn probably came from an email that’s doing the rounds. Nevertheless, it’s still quite funny and scarily true.
BASIC RULES FOR DRIVING IN GAUTENG
1. Turn signals will give away your next move. A real Gauteng driver never uses them.
2. Under no circumstance should you leave a safe […]
Veyron gets ticketed - crowd cheers
Clearly I’m not alone in thinking that the Bugatti Veyron is a loathsome, vulgar piece of automotive history - a crowd gathered in downtown Manchester to cheer on a traffic official as he ticketed an illegally parked Veyron. It seems that simply screwing over the planet with his 33l/100km atrocity isn’t enough, so the driver […]
Super-Cars Shout Out Competition: More flyer options.
I’ve added two more fliers for the Super-Cars Shout Out Competition for you to choose from.
Get them here, and here.
Remember, there’s $500 or more up for grabs, so get started!
$500 eco car photo contest
The good people over at PlanetThoughts have launched a fun little competition to encourage the use of green cars amongst the general public.
From their competition page:
We all want to do what we can to reduce the global warming gases that get emitted, especially in our own areas of living and working, where we […]
Top Gear - the world’s smallest car
Here’s a classic video of the ever-irreverant Jeremy Clarkson driving the smallest ever production car, a 1963 Peel P50. The BBC “climate change meeting” he attends (while inside the P50) is hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkAbGHz7xUQ
