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Parents 'risking kids' lives' on defective tyres

MORE THAN 30% of parents are ferrying their most precious cargo around on illegal tyres, a new study has found. Road safety charity TyreSafe has reported that one of its members carried out a study at a Shropshire primary school, where almost a third of the cars dropping children off at school were wearing tyres that were either past their wear markers, were incorrectly inflated, had bulges or cuts, or had foreign objects sticking out of them. “The start of the new academic year means that we will be experiencing many more cars on the roads, particularly at peak times of the day,” comments Stuart Jackson, chairman, TyreSafe.

UK 2011 car sales analysis: winners and losers

The UK car market fell 4.4% in 2011 to its worst year for at least a decade. Brits bought 1,941,253 vehicles last year as private motorists put off that new car purchase and stuck with their existing wheels or went secondhand. Retail sales took the brunt of the fall, with a 14% collapse on 2010's figures.

Lamborghini’s Hexagon Project finally delivers the Lamborghini Huracan (video)

Lamborghini’s Hexagon Project finally delivers the Lamborghini Huracan We wonder how much time, effort and money Lamborghini spent on their silly Hexagon Project to tease the new Lamborghini Huracan? Whatever the amount, it was too much. The irritating sequence of teaser videos has seen a trio of hapless lads from the UK attempt to unveil the replacement for the Gallardo before the world’s media – or Lamborghini – could manage to.