Who Do We Have To Thank? The Department of Transport (DfT) have released figures that show that road deaths in the UK, fell below 2000 for the first time ever.  The question is “why” and who do we thank? Is it the road safety campaigners, the car makers, or perhaps even the last government? 1,850 […]

Phillip Hammond has announced a review into the 70mph speed limit that applies on Motorways, with a view to increasing it to 80mph. Speed limits have always been controversial and I am sure that you like us, know of many lower limits that exist across the country because certain people want them, rather than there […]

114g/km Ford Mondeo Shows its “Green Credentials” and gets an Award Often overlooked as an eco-car the Ford Mondeo has just won another award from What Car? and this time, it’s because it’s an low emissions car that delivers exceptional mpg! The car in question is the 1.6TDCI which produces just 114g/km CO2 emissions and […]

Its Silly Time – Whats Your Favourite Colour Car? We love surveys and research that give us pointless information and whilst I am sure there is some planner somewhere that will find this particular piece of research very useful, for us, it’s just a bit of fun. Manheim Auctions who have a number of big […]

There are certain products that are simply ‘cool’.  They look nice, they are ‘touchy feely’ nice and whilst we all know the iPhone fits in to that category, a couple of great historic English brands of car are demonstrating that its not just the preserve of companies in the Silicon Valley or Cupertino. OK, the […]

Is British Summer Time Daylight Robbery? A campaign to get our clocks changed across the UK, has just received the support of one of the UK’s top windscreen suppliers ‘Autoglass Windscreens’ as they believe, like many others do that the change would significantly reduce the number of road accidents. The “Lighter Later” campaign is run […]

Scottish People Just Love Spanish Cars as SEAT Scores Big Growth North of the Border We tend to think that car awards cover the whole country, but in fact, that’s not true as the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers (ASMW) have just presented the ‘Scottish Car of the Year Awards” which were held in Glasgow […]

Highway Agency to permanently switch off the road lighting on sections of the M1 Motorway in Bedfordshire OK, you could discuss the impact of carbon emissions all day long and different people will have different views and light pollution I guess makes it more difficult to see the stars at night! Well for those two […]

Rumour has abounded for ages now as to how long a battery on an all electric car, such as the Nissan Leaf would last before it started to degrade and not hold as much power as it did originally.   The cost of replacing the battery has also been something that hasn’t been spoken about much, […]

227.070MPH Skoda – The Worlds Fastest 2-litre Forced Induction Production Car OK, maybe you can’t trot along to your local dealer to buy one, but who would ever have thought that you would have been reading about a land speed record holding Skoda Octavia? (no its not a joke) We love all of the new […]