Drink-Driver caught on the M6.

He only got a £100 fine though.

It's one of two short motoring/Police videos today on the BBC News site.

He also got a telling off!

Meanwhile, over in The States, a driver managed to get into the staff room of a New Jersey Police Station.

I can't believe how non-plussed the officers are to find him there - especially since one could have been badly hurt if they were in there at the time.  He was named as John Hargreaves of Belvidere, New Jersey and is facing charges of burglary; criminal mischief; possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes; aggravated assault; harassment; and terrorism. Nice chap.  The phrase "right-wing nutter" comes to mind.

And he's damaged a filing cabinet with his car door.

This couldn't happen in Britain.

Because The Tories closed all of the Police Stations.

A Weighty Problem

The latest Corvette has had the engine moved from the front (typical American muscle car) to be mid-engined (let's tap into that European Supercar market)

Only trouble is, they don't seem to have told the guys in the dealerships doing the servicing.

Normally I'm not into putting "amusing" music onto such videos but this works rather well as the side of the car is gently being sliced through.

I'd have been intrigued to hear the real noise it made though.

And do acceleration figures count if the car is travelling vertically?

How Big is The Dog?

Autocar are reporting on the latest Quadricycle to start deliveries in the UK.

And when I say "start deliveries" I mean it is being delivered to customers not that it is making deliveries.  I think it is a trifle too small to be used as a delivery vehicle - unless perhaps you want to deliver trifles.

It is called the Ark Zero - maybe its successor will be called the Ark One.

And the models draped over it at motor shows will be called Ark Angels.

It's all very clever and it is aluminium - the website is here.

But it looks like a certain beagle.

The one on the right is the car - the one that looks cross-eyed.

It is a two-seater like its rival the Citroën Ami but has the more antisocial "tandem" layout of its other rivals the Renault Twizy and the Messerschmitt KR200.  The Ami is probably the only one I'd a want to have a go in.

The interior looks, let's just say "cosy".

Which brings us back to dogs. Ark claim that this car is big enough for two adults and a dog - hence the title of this post.  You'd never get a Saint Bernard in there though.

But it does remind me of  a quote from nearly six years ago now in this post.  It is why I rather maliciously included the Messerschmitt as a rival:

"at the back there is a bench which will hold a small wife and child, or a larger wife and a shopping basket."

Or a huge wife and a Yorkshire terrier.

And why on Earth does it need a reversing camera?

Back To the Future

No, it's not a DeLorean story, it's a BMW story.

Most motoring websites (like Car+Driver here) are picking up on BMW's Vision Neue Klasse which is supposed to be the electric future of the 3-Series.

and it looks bloody good:

Probably because it is s retro design harking back to the beautiful BMWs of the 1960s.  Although the back is very Alfa Romeo:

The important thing is it doesn't have the stupid nostrils/beaver teeth of the modern cars:

Interior looks more like a conservatory and the seat covers are corduroy:

Yes - corduroy!

The sort of material you would find on the trousers of the people in this video from the past: