UK-Designed Ford 1.0-Litre EcoBoost named ‘International Engine of the Year’ Well, the headline pretty much sums the story up, but we are talking about something very special here.  We are talking “breaking the mould” in such a way that there simply wont be any going back and for petrol heads like me, this is a […]

New “Free” Audi Mileage Tracker App Will Allow You to Count the Cost of Your Business Travel. A new app that’s free to download is set to make business travel a little less taxing by using GPS to track your journeys and precisely calculate the business expenses they generate. Available from iTunes, the Audi Mileage […]

Could You Be The Next Bradley Wiggins?  Why Not Cycle To Work. OK, I am happy to accept most car drivers don’t like cyclists, but then to be fair, most motorists don’t much like anyone that slows them down or gets in their way, but there has been an old saying that if you cant […]

Do you feel like me that we already pay a good crack towards the road networks in the UK?  Do you think that paying up to 85% tax on every litre of fuel we use and by paying a first registration fee, then an annual road fund tax isn’t already a big enough contribution towards […]

Toyotas Everywhere?  Just Look At These Production Figures! Well, it took Toyota 76 years and 11 months to achieve it, but in June 2012, its worldwide cumulative production figures topped 200 million vehicles. Starting way back in 1935 at Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Ltd.’s Automotive Department, and beginning with its first vehicle, a model G1 […]

Are We Being Told Our Cars Achieve A Higher MPG Than They Actually Do – Seems That Way! Fuel consumption is a huge issue, because just a gallon of fuel now costs more than you needed to take your best girl out to the pictures for a night, grab an ice cream in the break […]

London Closed For Business During The Olympics? Get a Gold In That Most British of Sports! We were all told how wonderful the Olympics would be for the UK, but fact is if you need to go anywhere in or around London in your car whilst the “runny jumpy” games are on, well chances are […]

Chancellor postpones Fuel duty increase. Chancellor George Osborne has announced that the 3p a litre increase in fuel duty that was going to be imposed from August 2012 is now going to be delayed until January 2013 and duty will be frozen for the rest of this year. Argument surround the increase, with both businesses […]

What was the 5th Most Popular (or Common) Car in June 2012? There is a fine line between common and popular.  Popular can mean that big numbers of people see the virtues in something and choose to select it, common however can mean that just too many people chose it and because of that, the […]