More Awards for Ford as Association of Car Fleet Operators Gives Ford 4 out of 7 Top Awards You’ve probably heard of AFCO (the Association of Car Fleet Operators) well as the name suggests, they know a thing or two about operating vehicles.  Each year, ACFO hand out a number of awards for the cars, […]

“Why Aye Man”. It’s 25 Years for Nissan. Seems like only yesterday when Japanese car maker Nissan opened its manufacturing plant in Sunderland, but 25 years have passed from September 8th 1986 when the first UK built Nissan Bluebird rolled out of the factory, to be followed by 5,139 in the first year of production. […]

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 […]