So You Can Now Buy A Renault Kangoo Van with a Mercedes Badge – But Why Would You? Badge engineering is common place now, with so many car makers offering almost the same thing, but with their own badge on it.  Latest to enter that market is Mercedes who have just announced their new “City […]

Toyota to Recall Up To 7.4 Million Cars World Wide and 138,000 in the UK A problem with the electric windows in some Toyota models has prompted Toyota to recall up to 7.4 million vehicles world wide for rectification.  The UK only has a small number of the vehicles which are affected and will mean […]

New Vauxhall Corsa Diesel Gets Green & Economical Vauxhall have announced details of  their cleanest and greenest Corsa ever.  The three-door Corsa 95PS 1.3CDTI ecoFLEX Start/Stop now achieves 85.6mpg while emitting just 88g/km (five-door: 83.1mpg /89g/km CO2). This is a 2.4mpg and a 6g/km improvement over the 2011 Corsa 1.3 CDTi ecoFLEX (80.7mpg /94g/km). In […]

The Train Now Standing on the M1 is the 9.15 to London. (But it doesn’t end there) Back in the old days, Bruce Forsythe used to say “I’m In Charge” and I guess that’s what most of us think when we are behind the wheel, but maybe in the not too distant future, its going […]

There are lots of kind of whizzy bright new ideas being kicked around by car makers to make their cars either safer, more interesting or simply to steal a march on the competition but whilst they make look good on paper, more often than not, they never go into production, simply because they don’t actually […]

Don’t Turn Your Brain Off; When You Turn You’re Sat-Nav On There’s lots of talk and grumping and groaning about Satellite Navigation systems, with people complaining that they’ve been mislead by them, or taken somewhere completely different, or ended up on dead end roads or even worse, driven off a cliff or into a river […]

Will You Still Have Your Licence at 106 Years Old? Came across some information regarding driving licences in the UK. The information comes from figures released by the DVLA under the freedom of information act. I guess the headline figure is that there are now over one million drivers that are 80 years old or […]

I mean, how do you value something like that?  Well for Audi, securing the return of a 1939 Auto Union Silver Arrow Twin-Supercharger Type D, I guess is priceless, although it means they now own 3 of the 5 Auto Union racing cars that can be claimed to be original.  No purchase price has been […]

Survey Suggests We Think Speed Cameras Are OK. “Great Headline, But Did They Ask You?” We love stories that either surprise us, upset us, or even better still prove we were right all along.  We pick up on stories both from our own experience and from obscure publications or trade sources which many of the […]

“Taxi Sir”…..You Mean “Nissan Sir” Don’t You? Hot on the heals of winning the contract as the official taxi-cab supplier for New York City for the next 10 years, Nissan don’t intend to let the momentum drop as they now unveil their view of the “London Cab” of the future and what’s being called, “The […]