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(From Coventry Evening Telegraph)

GAS-GUZZLING vehicles aren't the only things on the road pumping out noxious fumes - drivers are just as bad, a study has found.

The average driver emits more than 912 pints of gas breaking wind inside a car during his or her lifetime.

The figure is revealed by BBC Top Gear magazine which has compiled a list of statistics to give a profile of the average driver. Among the findings for the December issue, on sale today, are that drivers will have sex in a car six times in their lives.

They will spend around two hours and 14 minutes kissing in their motors, researchers found, ...

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