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This is the all new Fiat 500L Trekking! In a design and colour you’ll either love or hate, this is the Fiat 500L that is designed to go everywhere. The standard car has the following: 5-inch touchscreen radio with Bluetooth, six airbags, ESC (Electronic Stability Control) including ASR/MSR, Hill Holder, ABS +EBD, body-coloured electric door […]
Breakdown cover company and road safety charity, GEM Motoring Assist this month rounds up some interesting figures in a quirky fact file, ‘Motoring by numbers’. If you don’t know what the perfect driving song is, or just how tiny the world’s smallest car is, you can find out here! GEM fact file: motoring by numbers […]
The Honda CR-V and the Citroën C4 Picasso have both achieved the coveted 5 star overall rating. Furthermore, Euro NCAP is revealing two new Euro NCAP Advanced rewards for further Autonomous Emergency Braking systems. The Mitsubishi Forward Collision Mitigation, available on the Mitsubishi Outlander tested in 2012, is a system aimed at alerting the driver […]
So, which do you think will best from this crop of three top end hot hatchbacks? In this video courtesy of Autocar, the Mercedes A45 AMG , Volkswagen Golf GTI and BMW M135i duke it out for the top spot. Granted, they are not the cheapest on the market, but they are some of the […]
Here’s the latest from Radical on their all new RXC, set to be shown at the Salon Prive in September: The RXC is Radical’s first ever enclosed car and marks an exciting new step in the development of the marque, by bringing genuine Le Mans engineering and aerodynamics to the road in a package that […]
This is the all new Renault Twizy Cargo. The question is though, is a genuine, viable commercial vehicle? It is a single seat electric vehicle priced at £6,241.67 excluding VAT (£7,795 VAT included – as a car-derived van, it can simply be reclaimed). The model swaps the rear seat (standard on the normal car) for […]
The services currently provided by the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) and the Vehicle Operator Services Agency (VOSA) will be brought together into a single agency. Services will be delivered from 2014 by a single agency. Stephen Hammond said: “We need to make sure that we continue to keep pace with customers’ needs and deliver services […]
Road safety charity the IAM is offering weekly motoring tips from Britain’s top advanced driver, Peter Rodger. This week, he is advising on driving regulations for Spain. You are required to carry two warning triangles in your vehicle. In the event of a breakdown, they should be placed in front of and behind the car. […]
A stunning display of McLaren F1 cars will be on show at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year. The all-conquering chassis F1/01R will be joined by the one-off prototype of the McLaren F1 LM, famously built to honour the victory and five finishing cars at the French endurance event, and also the Gulf-liveried McLaren […]
After completing the official ACO test last weekend, the Caterham Motorsport team has arrived at Le Mans ahead of its debut in the legendary 24 Hour race on June 22/23. Competing in the LMP2 category, the final step before the race commences will come on Wednesday and Thursday when Caterham’s position on the grid will […]