Other Vehicles

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…

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,…

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.

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…

This seems to be some sort of Bullet Trainyard in Tokyo (perhaps that should be Bullet Train train-yard?). I can count 15 with 4 more slightly south. Also, could this be part of one of the Doctor Yellow trains we…

Here you can see the unmistakable 'noses' of a couple of Japanese Shinkansen Super Express trains, although you might know these better as 'Bullet Trains'. Their nickname is well deserved however, as they regularly run at speeds of 300 kilometres…