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hire a couple of bikes and go for a spin.
“That’s great. Can you bring me back one of their King Prawn Rings and some Sticky Chicken Skewers?” Not really the response
I was soliciting when I mentioned to a neighbour that I was going to Iceland on a motorbike, but even when I’d cleared up the confusion and explained that I was referring to the country, not the local supermarket, his reaction was still unremarkable to say the least.
“Why the hell do you want to go there?”
Iceland’s one of those countries that everyone’s vaguely heard of, but few know much about. It’s up in the Arctic somewhere, freezing cold, light all summer, dark all winter and inhabited by people who wear woolly jumpers, eat whale and believe in trolls. Only some of that is untrue.
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I couldn’t resist another week at the wheel of a Ranger Raptor. This is easily the most fun among block-of-flats pick-ups, because Ford has very deliberately turned its utility truck into an enthusiast’s car by refining its dynamics and giving it the wildest wheels and suspension going.
Like most of its peers, the Raptor is stable and sturdy, with a comfortably bulletproof cabin and an unusual sense of wellbeing. But the major surprises are good handling, greater damping and accurate steering (I positively enjoy holding it close to Cotswolds walls in tight going). Even its £48k price seems less daft when you drive it.
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image captionThe arrow-shaped racer reached 628mph (1,010km/h) on the lakebed of Hakskeen Pan, South Africa, in late 2019
The bloodhound land speed racer has been stored in a museum while the search to find a further £8m investment begins.
Fundraising is for a motor to break the world record of 763mph (1,228km/h).
The Bristol car s owner, Ian Warhurst, has handed the project over to the group s head of engineering Stuart Edmondson, who said he was confident it would leave the museum one day.
Coventry Museum said it was thrilled to support the project s ambitions.