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The Grand Tour's "Sand Job," Nothing to See Here, I'm Afraid

The Truth About Cars

The challenge is to create a rally raid car and then sorta-kinda follow the route of the old Paris-Dakar rally, the challenging race that you might think has run from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal since its inception in 1977. The border of Mauritania and Senegal is reached, but there’s no bridge anywhere! It doesn’t make sense.

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Will EU demand for biofuel mean starvation for world’s poorest?

Green Cars News

The controversy surrounding the use of biofuel in road fuel has heightened as one African publication accuses the biofuel industry of taking food directly out of the mouths of the hungry. The report concluded that the use of biofuels in road fuel had lead to some unintended environmental and social problems.

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