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New AS1967 Concept car design sketches "teased" at Motor Show

New design language "revealed"

The concept car, which is rumoured to be a hydrogen fuelled, gull winged, four wheel drive, convertible, SUV / MPV / Saloon/ Hatch hybrid, utterly bewildered audiences.

When the proposed figures behind the car were announced, 0 to 62 in 2 seconds,1000 miles between refuelling, and with an anticipated cost of less than £1000, the room was filled with audible gasps.

“We’re planning for the car to be constructed from recycled coffee cup lids, discarded Action Man accessories, and solidified carbon dioxide emissions”. Adding “the car is so environmentally friendly that it scrubs the air clean of pollutants. It’s also entirely biodegradable and can be used as compost. The panels are actually pre-seeded, so that when it decomposes you get a nice patch of flowers growing where the car was left. Our expectation is that it will reverse global warming, feed the hungry and cure the sick."

While AS1967 confirmed this marked a new "eco-kinetic biosynergy" design direction, they remained tight lipped on the speculation the car used a previously thought impossible “perpetual motion” engine.

Discussing the vehicle, lead Designer Won “Tex” Ist said “The sketch is all of the car which will ever "be". It will never get made, referred to, or mentioned again. Ever. Just like all  concept cars” she said vaguely waggling her hand in the direction of the other concept vehicles in the show. “But that’s enough to get page after page of coverage in the motoring magazines. So boom shagga, shagga, shagga, boom shagga, shagga, boom, boom!” before leading a victory conga line into the distance.

"Watch Out...We're Mad!" - Bud Spencer and Terence Hill revealed as 2019 Video Cassette Day Ambassadors

Bud Spencer and Terence Hill have been announced as the 2019 UK ambassadors for Video Cassette Day, which celebrates independent video libraries around the country.

The duo follow a promotional cardboard standee of Charles Bronson in the role.

The stars. who featured in many unrented Guild Home Video films said, "The bar's been set at a new height," Terence tells the world.

"I didn't want it to change me but I think it might have," Bud adds. "It's definitely put a spring in my step."

Bud Spencer and Terence Hill's left-field take on action comedy first hit screens in 1967 after appearing in other things in Italy

This is the action comedy duo's first official outing as Bud Spencer and Terence Hill for more than five years.

Since their last film together Bud Spencer has died.

Despite saying they'd "love to put out" live shows and a video they recorded in New York "at some point", the duo say their Video Cassette Day duties are, for now, a one-off appearance.

It's fair to say they're taking their role seriously though.

Bud and Terence say they're on a mission to get the nation to "slow down and get physical".

Bud remembers his "formative years" discovering films at Xtravision: "It's about chatting to the people behind the desk, the people you bump into in the shop... it's a magical journey, a pilgrimage."

He says that whereas now you "turn on the digital tap and video just comes out", it's not like that with V2000 cassettes."

"You've got to get over this hump of effort with video recorders - it makes you choose differently."

"You're fighting for attention and that's why it's important places like these exist."

Terence says it's nice to go through somebody's Betamax porn collection, too.

"If you were on a date or you'd just met someone, you could have a peak at their collection and think 'Oh, this isn't going to work'."

To celebrate their role as UK ambassadors, it was previously announced that the duo's original films will be available undubbed on VHS for the first time.

They made their débuts in 1967 in "God Forgives... I Don't!" 

"It was on in the afternoon after the sports news... the critics hated our films," Bud says.

Terence adds: "They'd be talking about how Spurs were playing then he'd go, 'Anyway, now we've got... I don't even know what this is'.

"Then our films would come on to a load of angry football fans."

As fans of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill might expect, they've also got a more surreal ambassadorial offering.

"We can come to people's houses and provide a personal service," Terence offers.

"We'll push a Sony C7, complete with a BetaStack, into people's faces and make them smell and feel the chunky 1980s mechanical workaround introduced to get passed the limits of being only able to record for just over 3 hours on a single L750 cassette."

"We might also melt some tapes down and make shoes out of it. There could be some hats and broaches?

"We're here for you, we're here for all of video libraries and shops. Well... all the independent ones in the UK."

Video Cassette Day takes place on 13 April