The Road Transport Laboratory have completed a study that claims sending a text whilst driving is more dangerous than jumping in your car when you’ve had a drink or two. In tests, the reaction time of drivers texting, dropped by 35%, whilst those who had drunk the legal limit for alcohol, only dropped by 21% […]

Earlier this year, the law changed forever.  Before April 2008, it was pretty much impossible to take a large company to court charged with manslaughter. Now that’s different and no matter what the company, if someone gets killed whilst driving at work, its going to be investigated. If a company is found guilty, the punishment […]

Most of us hate road signs, but in fact, many of us don’t notice them anymore as we just become oblivious to them. So maybe that’s why Transport Minister “Rosie Winterton” has embarked on a review of our current signage with the aim being to by using the latest technology to help cut down congestion […]

With a 3.0 litre D-4D engine and motorsport performance upgrade, Toyota’s new Hi-Lux Invincible 200 Double Cab pickup is billed as the most powerful ever available in the UK. The upgrade takes the power from 171ps in the current Invincible up to 197ps (hence the 200 name).  Torque is increased massively from 343nm to 430nm […]

Top London football team, Arsenal have signed a 3 year sponsorship deal with Citroen allowing them to become the clubs official car supplier. Citroen’s UK’s Managing Director, Xavier Duchemin says that Citroen share much in common with Aresenal, as both have a reputation for creativity, style and flair.  He sited teaming up with Arsenal as […]

Who do you think you are? Michael Schumacher. Driving god, Formula One legend and seven times F1 World Champion, Michael Schumacher proved he’s no better than us when it comes to driving on the road after apparently crashing his Fiat van into a Kent used car dealerships security gate. The Dealer principal of Millfield Motor […]

Seems the Jeep Cherokee has been around for years, well in fact it has, as its first incarnation was way back in 1984, whilst it was on the drawing board as early as 1978 when a team from American Motors and of all people, Renault began designing it. There have been a number of facelifts […]

Alfa Romeo is hoping for big things with its new Mito compact which was on show at the London Motor Show recently. This new “baby” Alfa is the first small car that the Italian manufacturer has made for some years and its billed as being a quality small car, more aimed at cars such as […]

The market for cars such as Vauxhalls new Vectra replacement “the Insignia” is a pretty competitive place, with new Ford Mondeo, new Citroen C5 and new Skoda Superb all wanting a chunk of it and so pricing is going to be crucial. Vauxhall say the Insignia lead in model called the exclusive with the 1.8 […]

Renault has always been a wee bit balmy when it comes to making radical road cars.  Remember the Avantime, or the tasty little Clio V6, well it could only be Renault that did that and they’ve done it again. The car is called the Megane Renaultsport R26.R, and it’s a heavily revised version of the […]