Volkswagen to Introduce a Budget Brand within 2 Years Despite owning a number of brands, such as Audi, Seat & Skoda, the VW Group are to add another brand to their portfolio, aimed at the bottom end of the market to rival brands such as Renault’s Dacia which arrives in the UK later this year. […]

Peugeot Win City Car Manufacturer of the Year Award at the Green Fleet Awards French car maker Peugeot has won yet another key accolade, being voted as “effectively” the best manufacturer of sub 120g/km cars, by outright winning the “City Car Manufacturer of the Year” award and demonstrating that across the range, they are leading […]

BMW Offers its London Olympic Fleet For sale to the Olympic volunteers “The Games Makers” Whilst no prices have been mentioned, German car builder, who made the “official” cars for the London Olympics (they happened earlier this year in case you had forgotten), are offering them for sale to the volunteers that made the games […]

TAXI! Biggest Wholly Owned British Car Manufacturer To Appoint Administrators When you think of London, its Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, the majestic River Thames, but go outside of the sites and it’s the red double decker busses and black London taxi cabs that come to mind next.  Well, it seems as if a bit of […]

Road Causalities Down in 2011, But Road Deaths Up – But Compared to What? With the amount of safety features built into our cars these days, one might expect road accidents to be more survivable and that the number of road deaths would therefore reduce, and that previously non-survivable accidents would now be injuries rather […]

Road Safety Charity Wants Proposed 80MPH Limit Scrapped Unsurprisingly, road safety charity Brake is calling for the proposed increase in the motorway speed limit from 70mph to 80mph to be scrapped. Brake claim that evidence shows that 80mph limits would cause more people to be killed and seriously injured on our motorways and for good […]

More Speed Cameras for the UK as New Digital Cameras Make It Easier & Cheaper To Operate Them As if we don’t have enough already, a new range of smarter digital speed cameras has been unveiled which are likely to be popping up where you live in the coming months. Presently, “cash machines” sorry, I […]

Hyundai Will Produce Zero Emissions Hydrogen Powered Cars By The End of 2012 For so long, those that know have been saying that a Hydrogen fuel cell is the only way for future vehicles to be powered.  Space age stuff eh and of course, for those of you who remember “Hydrogen Bombs” of “H Bombs” […]

So You Can Now Buy A Renault Kangoo Van with a Mercedes Badge – But Why Would You? Badge engineering is common place now, with so many car makers offering almost the same thing, but with their own badge on it.  Latest to enter that market is Mercedes who have just announced their new “City […]

Toyota to Recall Up To 7.4 Million Cars World Wide and 138,000 in the UK A problem with the electric windows in some Toyota models has prompted Toyota to recall up to 7.4 million vehicles world wide for rectification.  The UK only has a small number of the vehicles which are affected and will mean […]