Other Vehicles

Chicago’s Midway Airport

This is Chicago’s Midway Airport and yes, at the end of all the criss-crossing runways, and surrounding it on every side are houses. Midway is smack-bang in the middle of a residential area. Fortunately the airport has these tiny little…

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Wednesday, 2nd November 2005

Hyundai & Audi cars

Just by looking at the shape and colour of these tiny cars parked outside an Australian car dealership I can identify them as Hyundai and Audi cars. Pretty impressive, huh? Thanks: shea marshall

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Wednesday, 12th October 2005

Train à Grande Vitesse

This is a Train à Grande Vitesse or TGV (literally meaning ‘high-speed train’), presumably travelling from Marseille to Paris. 17 years younger than Japan’s Shinkansen bullet train system, the more modern TGV has travelled faster than any other commercially-operating conventional…

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Wednesday, 5th October 2005

Brightly-Coloured Beijing Cars

Check out all these brilliantly brightly-coloured cars on this highway in Beijing. I’m not sure though why these cars seem quite so colourful, and perhaps it’s simply down to the combination of an over-saturated image and a very sunny day,…

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Wednesday, 28th September 2005

Giant Alien Writing

Arrrgggh! Haven’t these drivers noticed they’re about to be vaporised by some giant glowing-green alien writing?! Oh dear… Did I just mention aliens? Whoops. Thanks to David for alerting us to the impending invasion.

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Thursday, 8th September 2005

Avenida 9 de Julio

This is the Avenida 9 de Julio in the centre of Buenos Aires, Argentina. At 127 metres, it is one of the widest streets in the world, with some eighteen lanes of traffic! Unfortunately our thumbnail doesn’t really do it…

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Tuesday, 6th September 2005
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