It won’t take a degree in rocket propulsion to guess that the ‘SE’ lettering Triumph has slapped on the end of the 675 model code is for ‘Special Edition’, but if you’ve got just such a qualification and that was your guess, good for you sport.

With a new pearl white colour scheme and a sparkle [...]

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Here’s a weird one.  It seems that while covering a book launch in London’s Oxford Street (slow news day?), a CNN reporter and camera crew bore witness to a quartet of jewellery thieves as they made their getaway on the back of a pair of stealthy black motorcycles.

The thieves used a sledgehammer to smash the [...]

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It’s the whopper-burger of bikes friends; it’s Jabba the Hutt, it is to motorcycles what the whale is to the trout.

Sure, Triumph’s massive 2009 Rocket III is not for everybody. But if you like your machines big, while also well-mannered enough to poke around town, the Rocket III might be for you.

It does, as Triumph [...]

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Remember the ’60s friends…? Remember those days in the ashram… days of peace, universal brotherhood and unbridled shagging? Of course you don’t. Some of you weren’t born then; and those of you that were had all sorts of concoctions from the addled Dr Timothy Leary to ensure that all the good bits somehow later erased [...]

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Hyundai has announced details of its latest engineering triumph - an all-new high-output range of turbodiesel engines, which promises to turn around the common perception of oil-burners as being heavy, unsophisticated lumps of economy-tuned iron.

The R-Engine comes in two flavours: 2.0-litre and 2.2-litre, with both being all-alloy 16-valve inline-fours. Common-rail injection delivers fuel into those [...]

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Have you ever seen ducks being force-fed friends? It’s a slightly untidy business involving a funnel being inserted into the flat-footed little chap’s neck and a half-bucket of steroids and other ‘health foods’ (for ducks) being tipped therein. Certainly gives the duck a bit of edge in the ‘duck-house’… (“Holy sheee-itt, check out the giblets [...]

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“…below that carefully crafted fairing lies around $9000-worth of factory Magic…”

Triumph was a latecomer to the middleweight supersport table, its TT600 in-line four arriving in 2000, some 13 years after Honda first produced the groundbreaking CBR600F.

Riding on the back of some fearless marketing, the TT was undeniably a worthy first effort, but its fuel injection [...]

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Ford fans across the nation must surely be giving each another some rather panicked looks right now. At a recent press conference to discuss the future of Ford Australia’s large car industry, Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally raised the prospect that the Falcon of the future could potentially switch from a rear-wheel-drive to [...]

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Triumph has freshened up its Bonneville range for the 2009 model year just in time for the 50th anniversary of the iconic model. The original Bonneville was launched to critical acclaim for the 1959 model year and has been regarded by many as the definitive Triumph model ever since.

Taking their inspiration from the 1970s, the [...]

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Triumph’s new Thunderbird, expected to go on sale next year, will finally give the venerable Brit motorcycle marque some real ammunition in the battle for the hearts, bourbon-damaged minds, beards and bellies of the cruiser segment. It also gives Triumph a genuine contender to fire across the Atlantic into the land of the Hog.

With an [...]

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If you live in the United Kingdom and need another reason to go ahead and drop a deposit on a brand-new R35 GT-R (as if the prospect of owning a R35 isn’t awesome enough!) then listen up. Nissan will be offering pre-order customers the opportunity to participate in several track events in the GT-R as [...]

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Following Ferrari’s successful expeditions through China and the Americas, proving that the legendary super car makers products can go just about anywhere, Ferrari has announced that in 2008 it will explore India with two Ferrari 612 Scagliettis and a team of international media.

The “Magic India Discovery Tour’ will start in Mumbai on the 25th of [...]

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