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A brand new high-tech future model, which doesn’t go on sale until spring 2017, will be one of the highlight vehicles taking part in this year’s MPG Marathon, which gets underway next week. The UK’s premier eco-driving challenge, which promotes efficient and environmentally friendly driving, will also see the first UK appearance of the second […]
Cash strapped councils could be missing out on nearly fifty million pounds of extra revenue a year by failing to market their parking spaces effectively. Online parking market place YourParkingSpace.co.uk found that a number of local authorities were struggling to sell many of their annual parking season tickets which could have netted each authority hundreds […]
Jeep UK and leading specialists in lifestyle sports, Factory Media, are unveiling a series of videos in which the popular Jeep Renegade helps explore the past, present and future ‘renegades’ of its surf and mountain biking sports ambassadors. The series, called ‘Ultimate Renegades’, will reveal the adventures of Jeep ambassadors, mountain bikers Dan, Rachel […]
Silverstone Classic is renowned for celebrating important anniversaries and 2016 is no different. To mark the 50th year since the 1966 World Cup Final between England and Germany, which took place just 70 miles down the road, six stars were drafted in to recreate the home nation’s famous victory, in support of Prostate Cancer UK […]
Households could be generating an extra £3,000 per year by sharing their homes, cars, parking spaces and even power tools according to online parking marketplace, YourParkingSpace.co.uk. YourParkingSpace, which enables homeowners to rent out their spare parking spaces and driveways has reported that 1 in 3 adults are already using digital sharing economy platforms to make […]
In 1963 Paul Michaels founded Hexagon, a business that started in a small mews garage in Hampstead and quickly built a reputation for selling and maintaining the finest road cars. Some 53 years later, Hexagon has entered one of the most exciting phases with the opening of a new flagship showroom at the bottom of […]
DVLA Personalised Registrations will be aiming to surpass its recent run of record-breaking fortunes when its second live sale of 2016 gets underway at The Oxford Belfry Hotel this week. The Agency will be hoping to secure its first ever complete sell out when 1,500 personalised registrations go under the auctioneers’ hammer at the Oxfordshire […]
Car brands, it seems, must have a 4×4 that is little and also one that is large. Skoda’s small SUV is the Yeti and it is very capable, smart and popular. However, it is in the smaller segment. Skoda was in need therefore of something larger to compete with the likes of the new Jaguar […]
New figures from My Car Check have highlighted the different risks associated with buying a secondhand electric or hybrid car. Most significantly, green machines are more likely to have outstanding finance than their petrol or diesel counterparts. 25% of warnings against electric/hybrid cars checked in February 2016 were for finance, compared to 19% for diesels […]
DVLA Personalised Registrations is edging ever closer to its first sell-out success after all but three of the 1,500 registrations auctioned during its first sale of 2016 were sold during three days of frantic bidding. For the third successive live auction the Agency recorded a 99 per cent-plus sales conversion while last month’s event staged at the […]