Most pensioners reach an age when they are quite content to take things a bit more slowly and enjoy their old age. Not Stanley Murphy, the 90-year-old who unwittingly took to driving his mobility scooter onto the A27.
As motorists hurtling past him along the busy major road that runs through Sussex, they must have […]
Yachting really isn’t the cheapest of hobbies but even though high end models cost millions, prices in general are way down due in part to the state of the economy. Yachts are the first items to go in times of crisis and if you have a spare £10 million lying around, it has never been […]
Not really a gadget but something I felt I should mention here. I recently went on a track day driving experience at the Silverstone race track in Northampton. Now you can buy these for yourself or others so i guess it is a “toy” or “present” of some sort.
The car of choice at this experience […]
Ever wanted to have a Porsche without having to spend silly money?
I recently same across car leasing from Leasing Options, a contract hire company that has a really wide range of ultimate boys toys that no real man cannot love. I’ve been looking at the Porsche Cayman 2.7 2dr car, with a great Tiptronic gearbox […]
Toyota have released a new model of a Night-View equipped car, dubbed the ‘Crown Hybrid’. The Night-View system uses a combination of low-light cameras and a database of pre-defined pedestrian shapes. The software then compares the images that the cameras pick up against this database and any time a match is made, a yellow box […]
Peraves have recently announced a new way to reduce CO2 emissions while looking ‘cool’ in the process. The MonoTracer has been designed by german company Peraves to have extremely low drag which, when equipped with a 130 bhp BMW engine, is capable of 0-60mph in under 5 seconds with carbon emissions of only 85g/km. The […]
Reaction Engines, based in Oxfordshire, have come up with designs for a new hypersonic passenger jet which could travel from Europe to Australia in under 5 hours! The A2 Supersonic Jet is capable of speeds up to 4000mph, will transport 300 passengers and looks to be available within the next 25 years. The […]