The BBC is to visit Austria in a battery-operated car as part of an online web-documentary.Producer Kevin Dawson, said: “The premise is simple – we want to look at the emergence of battery cars. We’ll investigate the technology, the infrastructure and political will behind the growth of the battery-vehicle culture.”By embarking on this ambitious journey […]
Frank Stronach has revealed plans to move into forestry and cattle breeding as the Magna founder launched a scathing attack on American companies over the conditions they keep their herds in.Stronach said: “Im planning to buy 20,000 hectares of woods in (the US state of) Florida. The climate is excellent there.”Speaking about his intentions to […]
New models by BMW and Alfa Romeo have won an Austrian car clubs crash test.Motorists association ÖAMTC said today (Weds) the BMW 5 Series and the Alfa Romeo Giulietta reached top marks of its five-star ranking, while the new Mazda CX-7 bagged four stars.ÖAMTC lauded the two winning models for avoiding serious pressure on any […]
Boldfaced robbers have stolen a Fabergé egg worth half a million Euros from an elderly couples house after they left for a flea market.Police in Theresienfeld, Lower Austria, said today (Tues) the crooks had told curious neighbours they had been ordered to pick something up while they loaded up their car with the 500,000 Euro […]
Would-be car thieves did a runner when the triathlon athlete owner was woken by the noise they made.Police in Schönbühel, Lower Austria, said today (Tues) they were investigating after Saturday nights incident in which an unidentified trio stole car keys and mobile phones from the British couple sleeping in a tent at a local camping […]
Consumer rights watchdogs are up in arms over soaring price gaps at garages.Officials at the Labour Chambers (AK) Vienna branch said today (Tues) they have found out that some garages charge up to 110 Euros more than others for one hours work.A spokesman for the body announced: “We tested 39 car repair shops in Vienna […]
A Briton has been arrested for trying to smuggle six Afghans illegally into France.Police in Kufstein, Tyrol, said today (Mon) the British driver, 34, told them that the six passengers of whom one was found in the boot were friends of a friend and he agreed to give them a lift to Paris […]
An elderly Carinthian driver crashed into a shop entrance in Althofen today (Fri).Police in the province said the man, 86, steered his car into the store in an attempt to park the vehicle.Another elderly man a 71-year-old Althofen resident was squashed between a metal pole and the car after failing to get clear […]
Austrian data protection watchdogs have stopped Google from filming the countrys streets for its controversial Street View service.The Federal Data Protection Commission (DSK) said today (Thurs) it had decided to take the drastic step over news that Google had “accidentally” recorded wireless LAN internet connection information using its cars in in some European countries.A DSK […]
A Salzburg woman made herself a worldwide laughing stock as her car was raised by an opening car park gate.The woman who has not been identified by officials wanted to leave the underground car park of the citys Europark shopping centre Thursday evening. Not having realised that the gate has not yet fully […]