August turned into a month of records, and not only the temperature kind. In China, drivers sent a car along the ceiling of a tunnel, holding the vehicle upside down at speed. In the United States, a rocket powered by engines taken from excavators ran across the salt flats. Closer to home, a 14-year-old Czech without a driver's license reached 193 km/h on a district road and set off a speed camera. The car world rarely sits still, and last month proved it again.