German luxury car maker Audi tell us they have sold 1,092,400 cars in 2010 and that’s the Ingolstadt-based car maker’s highest ever annual sales figure. So who’s buying these cars?  Well 229,157 units stayed at home in Germany, whilst China gave them a close run, taking 227,938 vehicles and that’s a 43.4% increase on the […]

Now I know you all love figures and statistics, so here we go, as the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders have published details of the number of new cars sold in the UK in 2010. We have tried to simplify it all, but effectively, 2,030,846 cars were sold in the UK during 2010, which […]

Running a large fleet and being the registered owners of our cars, we get manufacturers recall notifications all the time and they aren’t just restricted to one car maker, but pretty much effect everyone who builds our cars for us.  Cars are complicated things and sometimes parts fail and I guess the real miracle is […]

In days gone by, you could usually pop along to your local car dealer and choose the car you wanted and chances were that the dealer either had it in his showroom, or perhaps hidden up in a compound full of vehicles somewhere.  If that wasn’t the case, they could usually check their systems and […]

The BMW 3 series is voted most reliable car. Is your car or van in the top 10 reliability lists?

As we near the end of year, we thought it only right that we run through the new cars that you might be spending your money on in 2011. There are some significant launches in 2011, one that’s destined to be one of the best selling cars of the year and the other that’s going […]

With many local authorities considering reducing, or switching off street lights at night, road safety experts suggest that the risk for pedestrians of an accident could treble. After comparisons were made between well lit and poorly lit areas it was found that where lighting was poor or inadequate that it seriously compromised road safety with […]

Recalls seem to be flavour of the week at the moment, with manufacturer after manufacturer pulling vehicles back to either adjust things, or fit replacement parts and the latest two come from Nissan and Lexus, so here’s the story of what’s gone wrong and how to fix it. Nissan is conducting a Voluntary Safety Recall […]

So it’s no congestion charge for you if you drive a sub 100g/km Co2 Euro 5 compliant car following a decision by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. This wasn’t an easy won victory, but comes following a campaign by Volvo, who believed it was unfair that a hybrid car that produced higher Co2 emissions […]

Well, It’s Really Not That Far Away. Remember when your average car used to do around 25mpg? Well it wasn’t too many years back and I can remember as a young salesman feeling particularly proud telling a customer if they drove their new car carefully, they might even get it to do 30mpg. We all […]