When last we checked in, Scotty and Fiddy, the lads behind a hitchhiking project called Hitch 50, had just left New York on their cross-country mission to hit all 50 state capitals in 50 Days.

It was another round of the unlikely-destination Olympics this weekend with each paper trying harder than the last: Libya! Vanuatu! Angola!

Driving from London to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia sounds like a risky, but fantastic adventure. But making that same drive in a tiny econobox with a one-liter engine? A fool’s errand. Yet in this year’s Mongol Rally, some 200 foolhardy teams will attempt t