Category: Fun corner

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Back in August, Mikaniki explored Elon Musk’s claims of going completely driverless by next year, with a detailed account of the 5 stages of autonomous vehicles, where we briefly touched on some of the things that can (and have already) gone wrong with self driving cars. In this piece, we’ll be focusing specifically on some […]

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You could call a relationship between Tesla and Lucid Air similar to that of Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield. Both are heavy-weight boxing champions, and in case you didn’t know, Mike Tyson bit off Holyfield’s ear in the legendary match in 1997. Now, CEOs don’t beat each other to a pulp in the ring – […]

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Elon Musk calls it mind bogglingly dumb. Japan calls it energy of the future. Whose camp should you join? Electric vehicles have basked in the limelight for the past decade as the most transformational force in the transportation industry. What started as a mockery of the Californian upstart ended in the grandiose race between industry […]

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Another month gone, another top 5 sticks the landing. This time, we enter the desert world of Mad Max with some of the wackiest rides to ever grace the big screen. Which killer vehicles made our list from this absolute non stop action packed film? H & H Ripsaw EV1 Starting off our Mad Max […]

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Another sing along, folks! Oh, you pretty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, we love you, and, our, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, loves us too… Who here doesn’t remember Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the famous Dick Van Dyke flick from 1968, based on characters created by Ian Fleming (yes the […]

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In last month’s unusual cars episode, we counted down our 5 all time favourite Bond cars, and for this month’s (belated) episode, we’re headed to the batcave and some of Bruce Wayne’s badass weaponised rods. We give you: the Batmobile! Batman Forever (1995) Starting off our list is Batman Forever, the third Warner Brother film, […]

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Shopping dilemma She entered the mall, eyes focused and wide. A Saturday ritual, with plenty of pride. To locate the sales, that was her plan. No whining allowed, from a pet or a man. Her vision was sharp, she was determined to win. It must look good, with her purse and her skin. Suddenly she […]

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“Just the good ol’ boys…Never meanin’ no harm…” C’mon, you know the theme song, sing along! Centred on the rip-roaring adventures of renegade cousins Bo and Luke Duke and General Lee, their tricked out ‘69 Dodge Charger stock car, The Dukes of Hazzard aired 147 cop-defying episodes from 1979 to 1985 to rave reviews. Since […]

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There’s something changing in the automotive world. A change for the better? Certainly. You don’t need a certain teenage Swede sensation to tell you that we’re in a climate change crisis, and the future of the tiny blue dot is at great risk. But even though we are fully aware that it’s crunch time to […]

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We’ve probably overextended our welcome into Gordon Murray’s fantastically mechanical world where the GMA T.50 is concerned. But what other car could possibly take number one on this list? A lot of you will be quick to say that we’ve had two Fords and no Porsches, but we’ll save those for the honourable mentions. Just […]