Elizabeth Blackstock
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The First Mercedes Hit The Road 120 Years Ago
On November 22, 1900, entrepreneur Emil Jellinek took his specially-crafted Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft machine out for a test drive. It was lighter, sleeker, and faster than anything the company had made before, and to honour the occasion, the car was named Mercedes after Jellinek’s daughter.
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Dutch Students Make A Car Completely Out Of Recycled Materials
Using recycled materials to build cars has been all the rage lately in the automotive world — but most of those automakers note that their ideas are firmly in the realm of the concept or prototype. Yes, we can use recycled material to craft a car… but we don’t have to. Not yet. So, a…
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Skoda Knows It’s All About The Little Things
When it comes to designing a car, it seems like plenty of manufacturers get so caught up trying to do something Big that they forget that, sometimes, the best changes you can make are the little ones. Skoda has recognised this and, as aa result, kicked off the Simply Clever catalogue of features that are…
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The World’s Largest Motorcycle Is A Crime Against Nature And I Love It
I, along with many other people in this world, have a morbid fascination with the World’s Largest Things. Whether it’s the world’s largest pizza or the world’s largest ball of rubber bands, these things have no reason to exist and yet they do, despite everything in our bodies that says it’s wrong. And that is…