Vauxhall Launch the Adam And Raided The Silly Name Box To Do It The Citroen DS3 is a stunning little car and has picked up from where previous fashion icon “and now estate agents favourite” the Mini left off. Its OK for a car to be popular and it can still be cool, but in […]
Read More109 MPG Ford Fiesta
108.78MPG from a Ford Fiesta – Mind Blowing! OK, you’ve probably not heard of the ALD Automotive/Shell FuelSave MPG Marathon, as it’s not as famous as the London or New York Marathons, but what makes this one special is its on 4 wheels and not 2 legs and rather than trying to find the fastest […]
Read MoreVolkswagen to Launch Budget Brand
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. […]
Read MorePeugeot Win City Car Manufacturer of the 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 […]
Read MoreBMW Offers its London Olympic Fleet For sale
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 […]
Read MoreManganese Bronze Holdings Ltd to call in Administrators
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 […]
Read MoreRoad Causalities and Death Stats for 2011
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 […]
Read MoreCharity Wants Proposed 80MPH Limit Scrapped
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 […]
Read MoreMore Speed Cameras for the UK
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 […]
Read MoreHyundai Zero Emissions Hydrogen Powered Cars
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” […]
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