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Auto Notebook: A Chinese Driver Went Across a Tunnel Ceiling, While a Czech Teen Hit 193 km/h on a Country Road

From iDNES · () Czech

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  • An August roundup highlights unusual automotive feats and incidents around the world.
  • The examples include a car driven on a tunnel ceiling in China, a rocket-powered vehicle on a U.S. salt flat and a Czech teenager allegedly driving at 193 km/h without a license.

August was a month of records, and not only in temperature. The latest automotive roundup looks at the extraordinary things that happened on four wheels around the world.

In China, someone drove a car along the ceiling of a tunnel. In the United States, a vehicle powered by a rocket and engines from excavators sped across a salt flat.

On a Czech country road, meanwhile, a 14-year-old boy without a driving licence reached 193 km/h and reportedly set off a speed camera. The roundup brings together these and other automotive events from August.

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