Grand Theft Auto in America will continue to attract organised crime and opportunist thieves alike. ibid.
He’s a car-jacker. He steals to order … In the US someone steals a car every forty-five seconds. Many hot cars end up outside the country. Thieves are becoming more violent, making fortunes while victims suffer. Underworld Inc s2e2: Car-Jackers, 2015
‘This consignment is going to the west African region.’ ibid. rozzer
High end cars may offer a better business opportunity than drugs. ibid.
Of America’s top ten car theft hot-spots, seven are in California. ibid.
Tonight: Britain is now the road rage capital of Europe. Have our over-crowded highways turned us into a nation of tailgating impatient roadhogs? Tonight: How Bad Is Your Driving? ITV 2014
Last year police were given new powers to issue on-the-spot penalties. ibid.
Tonight: the motoring revolution: what car should you buy? Are we ready for a world without petrol? Is diesel really finished? And what does the future look like? Tonight: What Car Should I Buy? ITV 2018
The government has said that by 2040 cars that run purely by petrol or diesel will no longer be sold in this country. ibid.
So car buyers now find themselves faced with a diesel dilemma. ibid.
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One in three of us receives some kind of motoring fine every year. ibid.
A whole industry of private parking companies has sprung up. ibid.
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Yet another increase in car thefts. ibid.
How safe is your car? Tragedy when things go badly wrong. When buying second hand could be deadly. And is this [computers] the future of car safety? Tonight: Is Your Car Safe? ITV 2019
In the last year more than three million vehicles have been recalled for safety reasons by manufacturers. ibid.
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The electric car revolution: a change that could help us save the planet. But how smooth is the switchover? And are we really ready to go electric? Tonight: Electric Cars: Are We Ready? ITV 2020
In just 15 years time the government has said the sale of all new petrol, diesel, and electric cars will be banned. But how ready are we to embrace electric cars? ibid.
Tonight: Is this the end of petrol and diesel? But what happens when electric cars go wrong? Is our charging network going to be ready? And what might the future hold? Tonight: Cars: The End of Petrol & Diesel, ITV 2021
In just nine years time the sale of petrol and diesel cars will be banned in the UK. It’s a big green move by the government. ibid.
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The great British sports car – a little cheeky, tantalisingly fast, but above all thrilling. This is the story of how the mass-produced British sports car democratised speed and glamour. Timeshift: Magnificent Machines: The Golden Age of the British Sports Car, BBC 2012
The MGB Midget – this was the sports car that started it all. ibid.
In 1948 Jaguar unveiled their XK120. ibid.
The Healey projected just the right image for the aspirational middle class. ibid.
The Golden Age of the British sports car had arrived. ibid.
The British sports car was becoming the heights of cool. ibid.
The Healey Frogeye Sprite ... £649. It would do 83 miles per hour. ibid.
The one, the only, Jaguar E Type: 3781 cc, 265 BHP, 150 mph. ibid.
British sports cars were on top of the world. ibid.
The MGB – the biggest selling sports car of them all. ibid.
Decisions are now driven by the toddler tyrant who let’s be honest can’t even use the loo. But just what constitutes a reasonably practical sensible family car? Designers have striven to make these family cars desirable. Timeshift: Roof Racks and Hatchbacks, BBC 2017
The family car is really where every family comes together. ibid.
The Morris Minor cost only £358/10sh/7d … The first British car to achieve a million sales. ibid.
Issigonis’ stroke of genius was to create a family-sized successor to the bubble car … the Morris mini-minor. ibid.
The Cortina – the middle class family car of the ’60s. ibid.
‘It was all about badge kudos.’ ibid.
A design popular in Europe: the hatchback. ibid.
The Allegro became the scapegoat for everything that was wrong with the British family car in the ’70s. ibid.
The Golf became regarded as the definitive family hatchback. ibid.
The family car of the ’80s now seemed to have it all. ibid.
Middle class families were aspiring to Range Rovers. ibid.
800 million cars. If you put them bumper to bumper they’d circle the Earth about a hundred times. Nova: Car of the Future, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, NPR Car Talk, PBS 2008
This is an absurd amount of horsepower to be in anything. ibid.
To lure buyers, cars and trucks have become bigger and more powerful every year ... Horsepower has almost doubled. ibid.
In the mid-1980s rallying became more popular than Formula One. Rules were changed allowing manufacturers to create ever more crazy and powerful cars. Madness on Wheels: Rallying’s Craziest Years, BBC 2012
Rallying quickly became lethal. ibid.
Rallying started as a hobby for motoring enthusiasts using their everyday cars. ibid.
Women competed equally alongside men. ibid.
The Audi Quattro became such a car. ibid.
In 1984 over one million people would go to the RAC rally. ibid.
The World Rally Championship continues to this day. The rallies are shorter and spectators strictly controlled. The power of the cars is restricted. ibid. caption
I was a kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on something must be wrong with me. Michael Moore, Roger & Me, 1989
When I was a kid I thought only three people worked for General Motors: Pat Boone, Diana Shaw and my dad. My birthplace of Flint, Michigan, was the birthplace of General Motors, the biggest corporation in the world. There were more auto factories and auto workers here than any other city on Earth. ibid.
My uncle Vern was in something called the Great Flint sit-down strike. Just hours before the year’s end in 1936 he and thousands of other GM workers took over the Flint factories and barricaded themselves inside refusing to budge for forty-four days. The National Guard was called in. ibid.
Ronald Reagan arrived in Flint and took a dozen unemployed workers out for a pizza. ibid.
I continued my search for Roger [Smith, General Motors] ibid.
With 30,000 jobs now eliminated the city decided to turn to that one event that had made us so happy – the Grand Parade. ibid.
Deputy Fred Ross seemed especially busy these days. After doing twenty-four evictions in one day he arrived to evict a woman who was a month behind in her rent. She quickly got the landlord on the phone and after telling him that a film crew had arrived with the sheriff the landlord told Fred not to evict the woman and her children. ibid.