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Number one - the diesel...

Number one - the diesel engine is dead. Thanks to high fuel costs, tough-to-meet emissions targets and growing competition for scarce fossil fuel resources, the engine once championed for its efficiency and cost-effectiveness is finished. Number two: you are what you eat. And in the case of the oil-burning powerplant, which chomps through a by-product of long-since-extinct dinosaurs… Well, you get the drift.



Sources within the Luton...

Sources within the Luton manufacturer have let slip that company bosses are closely watching the popularity of the GM Journey - which goes on sale in South America later this year. If that model proves to be a success, then the maker may offer something similar in UK showrooms.


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It"s a victory against...

It"s a victory against the machines! Real people are retaking control of traffic lights in Seattle, USA, because city chiefs reckon they can do a better job than computers. The signals are programmed to work in certain ways at different times of the day, but bosses think the personal touch will make peak-hour traffic flow more smoothly. Staff watching 37 video screens will over-ride the PCs and switch lights to green whenever queues start to build.