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Commentary, philosophy and other blog banter for noteworthy things that that just don't fit anywhere else. A little of of everything or a whole lot of nothing, depending on your own view.
The new Fiat Doblo passenger van

Fiat Doblo Review

Story by Justin Clements
Photos by Justin Clements and Jon Hammond
Vehicle provided by Fiat

Fiat very kindly lent a Fiat Doblo to StreetSafari for a few days to do a review.

We like Fiats, and we also like practical cars. If you want a fast car, go buy one, but then you probably need a tin can to stick the family in as well. And that's where we like practical vehicles.

So here is a write up of us having a new Doblo for a few days.

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Can You Have Fun in a Toyota Prius?

Story by Justin Clements
Photos by Mike Sannwald
Fearless driving by Phil Huff

The challenge was to see if a Toyota Prius could be fun. It was a strange idea that Phil Huff came up with. So he decided to ring Toyota to see if they had similar thoughts. But what is this F word being used in a sentence containing the words "Toyota Prius"? It would appear that someone in Toyota's PR Department did a double take, "Did they say fun? In a Prius?". They agreed readily to lend Phil a new Prius.

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Jensen Interceptor being created at Valley Gas.

Jensen Interceptor V10

Have you ever seen a car and you step back and go "whoa"? For me, this is this Jensen Interceptor being created at Valley Gas. Read more

ArtCar Central and StreetSafari

Article and photos by Costas Schuler

Art Car Central was started by Costas Schuler as a result of having created his own art car called Mercedes Pens, an art car covered in over 10,000 pens. He went looking for a web site that would feature his art car but there was non available. So art car central was born.

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Misfit Toys Racing Wartburg

Winning a 52 year old car, which has been sitting in a field for 20 years, sounds like a delightful prospect when you are on your 4th or 5th rum and coke of the evening. Read more

SpeedyCop's 8-Wheeler

Why build a normal supercar when you can build something so completely over the top? If four wheels are good, eight wheels must surely be twice as good! Read more

SpeedyCop's Scorpion

Sometimes there's a star that aligns just right with Neptune that reflects off the rings of Saturn and looks fantastic on a NASA telescope. In this case, it's not as good as a '77 Lancia Beta Scorpion body with a '93 Toyota MR2 chassis. It's glorious. Read more

StreetSafari CBT Day

As many of you know, on Saturday 13th March, a group of us at StreetSafari went to take our CBT, Compulsory Basic Training to ride a motorbike. Once completed, it allows us to legally fall off a motorbike of up to 125cc.

Apparently, it's cool to ride a motorbike! We decided to see if cool could rub onto us.

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The StreetSafari Kia at Santa Pod

StreetSafari Kia Torched

Well, a few nights ago someone torched the StreetSafari Kia Pride. And here is the story. Gratutitious burn shots at the end.

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Top Gear US Special Episode

Remember the Top Gear episode where they bought $1000 cars in the US, drove Miami to New Orleans, and had the local chase them out of a petrol station? Ever wonder if it was real?

Well, we decided to discover the truth behind it! (Actually it was just a Sunday drive....)

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