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Top Gear to blow up a caravan when it hits 10 million Facebook Likes

Top Gear to blow up a caravan at 10M Facebook 'Likes' To celebrate hitting 10 million Facebook likes, Top Gear are to blow up a caravan when than magic 10 millionth like arrives. Say what you like about Top Gear, they certainly know how to promote their brand. From Jeremy Clarkson’s supposedly unguarded comments – which generate millions of pounds-worth of column inches – to the very nice emails we get when they’re looking to promote something, the Beeb has certainly acquired the knack of keeping Top Gear in the news.

Electric cars must get noisier, ICE cars must get quieter

Electric cars will have to make a noise to protect pedestrians It’s four years since the Lotus solution for making electric cars noisy raised its head, since when the US has had a go at the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act in 2010 to do the same thing, the Japanese are playing too, and Toyota revealed the Prius Vehicle Notification System, and now the EU has decided its time to act to make EVs emit ‘noise’. Despite the most appealing part of an EV being that it makes our cities quieter, legislators worry about the blind, partially sighted and distracted pedestrian (think earphones and a Smartphone) being mowed down by a stalking electric car and feel the need to act. So the European Parliament has decided that by 2019 new models of electric vehicle will have to make a noise in cities, and that by 2021 all new hybrids and electrics must be noisy too.

The Equualizer: We drive the 2011 Hyundai Equus luxury sedan

Hyundai Motor America CEO John Krafcik is by all indications a brilliant car executive. His company is on a ramp-straight rise up through the car market in the United States, and he is poised to shepherd it into luxury-sedan territory next year with the impressively equipped Equus four-door we were driving. But Krafcik is not quite as good at timing and scoring.