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Three cars, unwilling to cooperate, whistle past so fast and so close together it would make a member of the r.a.a.f.'s Roulettes display team blanch. Two kilometers on they are there again, stopped, the fighter pilots standing on a sparkling carpet of headlight glass. Evidently one of them has slipped momentarily out of formation, and to judge by their gestures and shouting, the consequences have taken everyone by surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Aussie Pool Party | 8/25/2004 | See Source »

...California, pocket bikes are illegal on public roads, according to Rieboldt, because they are motor vehicles that require registration. But the department of motor vehicles will not register them because most do not pass safety regulations governing headlight height from the ground, taillights, brake lights, horns and so on. The California Highway Patrol has issued a statewide special alert about pocket bikes. Of course in some quarters, that will only add to the appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pocket Bikes | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

Elkann is committed to the company. While getting his engineering degree at Turin's Politecnico University, he would sneak off for incognito stints at Fiat operations: a headlight plant in England, a production line in Poland. He continues to plug away in obscurity, and has declined to answer press queries about the future. Questions in the past were related to the tragic circumstances of Elkann's rise. Originally, his cousin Giovanni Alberto Agnelli had been tapped, but he died of cancer in 1997. Three years later, Gianni's son Edoardo committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN ELKANN. FIAT: With the Grace of Grandpa | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...even reflector lights and vests are not enough to avoid a ticket, according to CPD, because they are only visible with a headlight shining on them...

Author: By Harry Ritter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fines For Bikers Roll Through Cambridge | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

...want to come across as an academic whore; if I had not just dented, scratched, and broken the headlight of a shitty little American sedan with the Rover while I was attempting to park outside of Starbucks where I was making my second trip today to purchase my second and third venti nonfat iced lattes to keep me awake during my exam after the completion of two consecutive allnighters, I would not be forced to hoard my funds with the expectation of forking it all over to this very fortunate car-owner, and I would be offering a monetary reward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Follows | 4/3/2003 | See Source »

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