Parade

It's celebrating 60 years in the U.S. with the lead float and an Insight.

Procession of 576 electric vehicles at the airport in Berlin beats the previous record set at 507 in California last year.

More than 1,200 Smart ForTwo two-seat vehicles are paraded in Hungary capital.

Things didn't go according to plan when a group of rebels drove their pickups down the streets of Dalton, GA, with the Confederate Battle Flag waving proudly in the wind.

218 Hyundai owners gather in Las Vegas to raise $4,000 to fight drunk driving as part of National Impaired Driving Prevention Month, setting a Guinness-certified world record in the process.

Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations prepares a special State Review vehicle for Queen Elizabeth II, used for the first time to present new colors to the Royal Welsh Regiment in Cardiff, Wales.

451 Ram owners drove to Arlington, TX, to set a new world record for the longest parade of pickup trucks, coinciding with the Academy of Country Music Awards at the home of the Dallas Cowboys.

Since National Plug In Day became National Drive Electric Week this year, electric-vehicle advocates, or at least the greedier ones, perhaps hoped for a sevenfold increase in attendance. Even though that didn't quite happen, the number of people who showed up to celebrate all that is electric and drives certainly surged. Some even Danny King

Not like we would need an excuse to join a few hundred friends for a springtime plug-in vehicle drive through the Swiss Alps, but the World Advanced Vehicle Expedition (WAVE) is providing us with one. WAVE is putting on its annual shindig between May 31 and June 7, entrant Green Motorsport says, and the party's so big that WAVE's now giving out prizes for three categories: plug-in vehicles that are heavier than 900 kilograms (1,984 pounds), lighter than 900 kg and electric bikes.

Honda has participated in the annual Rose Parade for the past 53 years and returns this year as the presenting sponsor for the fourth time running. But it's not satisfied merely putting its name on the event; Honda intends to lead from the front with what promises to be the longest float in the parade's long history.

Norway has long led Europe in electric vehicle adoption, and now the country's EV advocates can boast of holding a new world record: the largest-ever gathering of moving electric vehicles. We are particularly amused that the record was set by 260 and a half EVs, since one of the cars was a cutaway version of the Nissan Leaf. The sliced EV is complete enough to drive, and was thus eligible to participate in the emissions-free parade.

We're not sure which is more surprising: the fact that Nissan broke the Guinness World Record for the largest single parade of electric vehicles, or that the previous record of 218 EVs was held by ... Chrysler.

The record for the longest parade of Ferrari models was set back in 2007 when 385 examples lapped Silverstone at the same time. That record was broken with 490 cars sometime thereafter, but the Maranello automaker's London-based unit is gearing up to shatter the record once again.

The Rose Bowl – The Grandaddy Of Them All, as they say – is one of the most storied bowl games in college football, and the pre-game parade is a big part of the pageantry of the event. Last year, Natural Balance broke the record for the world's largest float with an 84,300-pound rolling display, but the pet food company seems thirsty for more world-record glory.

There's nothing quite like a parade in small-town America. The floats made by kids at the local high school. The middle school's marching band. The people on stilts. The new Honda.

Not a lot of people have use for a parade car. The pope would, as would a group of astronauts returning from a mission in space to be showered with ticker tape. And if you think you deserve a parade of your own, this could be your vehicle of choice.

FAW Red Flag – Click above for high-res image gallery

Camaro parade through Dallas - Click above for an image gallery

Holiday parades in communities all over the country invariably include processions of various classic cars. The upcoming Independence Day parade in Bay Harbor, MI will see the usual suspects joined by as many as thirty GEM neighborhood electric vehicles. The luxury community bars residents from using golf carts so more than half of them have bought NEVs from GEM through a dealership in Charlevoix. Since the GEMs are street legal it allows property owners around the golf cart restriction.