New York, New York, It’s a wonderful Town – Well Nissan Thinks It Is! We’ve all seen movies set in New York and watched the ubiquitous Yellow Cabs wallow along between the sky scrapers but pretty soon that’s going to be a thing of the past as Japanese car maker Nissan have just won the […]

Good or Bad? Well there is nothing more certain here than that motorists are going to have differing views in respect of the latest powers being handed to the Police, allowing them to pull up motorists who they feel have driven carelessly and issue them with an on-the-spot fine and even penalty points. The questions […]

Maybe this is going to shock you (as it did me) but the chances of your getting stopped and breathalysed are miniscule as Home Office statistics reveal that 813,288 drivers were breath tested in 2009 and that’s just 2% of motorists. Clearly, the public perception of the chances of them getting caught drinking and driving […]

Yes, that’s the claim made for a pair of Michelin Agilis van tyres that were fitted to a Citroen Relay van operated by a courier based in Cumbria. Bryan Davidson had the tyres fitted to the rear axle of his 2004 Citroen Relay LWB High Roof van by a local tyre company and since then […]

There are lots of van makers, some better than others, but one of the biggest in Europe is Peugeot, but it seems only now that van buyers in England are waking up to what a good value and highly capable product these vans are. March saw a massive increase in sales of 27.7% placing Peugeot […]

Sometimes you read things that surprise you, and sometimes you don’t. Well, Licence Link who provide licence checking software have revealed that the average points on a mans licence is 0.579, whilst for women drivers it’s just 0.095 points. Thousands of driver’s details were checked and even when you take all the drivers that have […]

Wasn’t it Russ Abbott that used to have a show called “Mad House”?  Well as we all knew, or at the very least expected, the guys who wrote the scripts for Russ Abbott now seem to be making the rules in Europe. Frankly, I don’t know why we should be surprised because an illogical decision […]

Business as usual is the message as one of Britain’s biggest tyre suppliers Kwik-Fit announce they have sold the business to Japanese company “Itochu Corporation”. Not exactly a household name, but Itochu is one of the leading Japanese Trading Corporations with interests ranging from textiles and machinery to aerospace, electronics and energy and probably unknown […]

Even if you haven’t heard of car maker “Infiniti” you’re going to have heard of Formula One Team “Red bull Racing” as the reigning F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel is one of their drivers and in the next two years, the Infiniti branding is going to be carried by on their cars and on things […]

OK, we all know how convenient it is to just pop our cars up on the pavement and nip into a shop, or climb the kerb to make a parking space where there previously wasn’t one.  However, if we thought about it for just one moment, we would realise just how many problems we might […]