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Today, 16 January 20172017 Tokyo Auto Salon gallery
The Tokyo Auto Salon held at Makuhari Messe convention centre is the biggest date in the Japanese tuner car scene.
These are our picks from Tokyo's long and eclectic mix of cars, including modified luxury cars and vibrant concepts
The 2017 Tokyo Auto Salon is famous the world over for its eclectic mix of machinery, which varies from vans to thoroughbred racing cars.
It's one of the world's best events for modified cars, and show attendees include Japanese tuning companies, international car manufacturers and global racing teams.
We’ve whittled down the show’s long list of cars in our 2017 highlights gallery, which you can view above.
Click here to view the show's highlights from last year.
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We’re issuing a rallying cry to get this pothole problem sorted, once and for all; send in your ideas - here is ours (with help from an industry spokesman)
The average pothole costs around £60 to repair. It’s estimated that there are one millon-plus potholes in the UK, that equates to around £60million.
That’s not that much, given that it’s EVERY pothole in the UK, and the Government’s £15.2billion kitty for resurfacing motorways and A-roads is some 253 times larger than the estimated cost of a fixed pothole.
Perhaps the government is doing something wrong, then. Potholes are fixed routinely by councils, and yet there’s still a ninth as many of them as there are bicycles in Beijing, depending on your music taste.
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A spokesman for the Alliance of British Drivers told Autocar that estimating the number of potholes in the UK is an impossible task (good luck fixing them then), but that the roads aren’t built correctly – the roads they produce develop potholes. The problem is like
He continued to point out that roads in other countries are often made with six inches of tarmac as their top layer, where UK roads are often only finished with two inches of the black stuff.
So perhaps, instead of building our new roads with the same problematic amount of tarmac as before, adopt a more Europea
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