Archive for September, 2008

Daytime running lights will be compulsory in Europe from 2011

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

The European Commission has ruled that all new cars operating in the EU must have daytime running lights from February 2011.
Daytime running lights make it easier to see vehicles and have been shown to improve road safety.
Daytime running lights are smaller than headlights. They are mounted on the front of the vehicle and switch on […]

If politicians were cars …

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

If politicians were cars, how would they be rated by The Dog & Lemon Guide?
Helen Clark becomes a Hummer battlewagon. John Key becomes a smooth and slick 1950s American sports car, while Greens leader Jeanette Fitzsimons gets run over by Helen Clark. Act leader Rodney Hide is ‘an overweight relic of the 1980s’, who gets […]