Car Blog & Car News
In a bizarre turn-around, the government has seen fit to continue the trend of raising the price of fuel. This time round, an extra £1 has been added to a tank of fuel as prices have recently crept back up to the more than 90p per litre mark – yet no-one has deemed to say […]
Smelly car parks are set for a fragrant makeover to entice back motorists who’ve had enough of holding their nose. NCP, which operates 200,000 spaces across 700 UK locations, thinks that nasty pongs associated with car parks, could be driving away a third of potential customers (The Telegraph). Two-thirds of the 2,000 people polled by […]
The third Aston Martin One-77 video is now available and is well worth a watch. I’m still not sure whether I like the looks (boggly front eye lights, a hugely overlong front end), but then it wouldn’t be the first supercar that either a) divides opinion or b) looks far better in the flesh than […]
A driver who was allegedly doing 173mph managed to evade a jail term after prosecutors failed to prove that he was doing such a speed. The defendant was speeding on the A515, and pleaded guilty to dangerous driving for driving a Lotus Elise at 105mph in a 50mph zone. The result of this law-breaking speed […]
The GT4 version of the Ginetta G50, Autosport Magazine’s ‘Car of the Year’, is looking to make the same waves across Europe in 2009 as it did in the UK in 2008. Six Ginetta G50s ran in the GT4 class of British GT in its inaugural year, clinching the title ahead of the Aston Martin […]
The future, according to Renault, is the electric car. The French firm are pinning their hopes on an electric vehicle along with a host of new models that will drag them out of the economic quagmire by 2011. Senior official Stephen Norman has made clear that whilst other projects may be on hold, the electric […]
To whit, I’m talking about the report that the SMMT has produced, showing that carbon emissions from new cars has fallen at its quickest ever rate. Here’s the lowdown from the SMMT (with my emphasis): CO2 emissions from new cars fell by their biggest ever margin in 2008 with the average model now emitting just […]
Sun Motors has launched a new campaign that to scrap old bangers on British roads. Other projects have already been rolled out across Europe in order to up car sales and save industry jobs. Governments have offered citizens the chance to purchase a new car and received up to 2,500 Euros in return for their […]
Jaguar Land Rover is set to be the next winner in the government’s continuing efforts to hand out taxpayer money – though this time it is in the form of a grant. Land Rover has stated that the money will go toward producing a new car that will be the most efficient, smallest and lightest […]
The national speed limit for single carriageway roads could soon be reduced in an attempt to save lives every year. The 60mph maximum as it currently stands would be reduced to 50mph on potentially 22,000 miles of road – and policed by a number of new average speed cameras. Ministers believe that the move would […]