Bedford Driving Lessons

The BBC have been left red-faced after the UK’s first coffee-powered car ran out of caffeine leaving it on the side of the M1 motorway. The 210-mile road trip had trouble from its start in London as it sputtered on its way to Manchester before breaking down outside Birmingham for two hours. The modified 1988 Volkswagen Sirocco broke down about four times, forcing the driver – Bang Goes the Theory’s Jem Stansfield – to wait on the side of the motorway while his team cleaned the engine. Francesca Bennett, a member of the team travelling with Stansfield, said: ‘It’s not the most reliable form of transport, but we knew that. ‘This is the first time this has been done and it wasn’t about reliability. It was about energy and making people think about how they use it.’ Fellow commuters couldn’t miss the stationary Scirocco, which has been nicknamed the ‘Car-puccino’. During a two-hour break outside Birmingham, truckers honked their horns in support. More