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Surely this is one of the best images that Car Articles has ever featured! This picture highlights the nine McLaren 12C GT3 cars that will line up on the grid of the famous Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps next weekend, 27-29 July 2012 to contest the Total 24 Hours of Spa. There’s a high quality Youtube video […]
This is another report on the efficacy or not of diesel engines. I would have thought that, by now, it was common knowledge that you need to run a car for at least 10,000 miles in a given year in order to recoup the cost of a more expensive diesel engined car purchase. Not to […]
Here’s some useful tips from GEM Motoring Assist with regard to olympic travel: With thousands of people descending upon the capital, planned road closures, public transport delays, and overcrowding; the majority of journeys in and around London will be affected throughout July and August. So, for an easy way into the Games take GEM’s useful […]
This is the all-electric Audi R8 e-tron – and to demonstrate true electric power performance it has set the lap record for electrically powered production vehicles at the Nurburgring Nordschleife. The racing driver Markus Winkelhock set the record at 8:09.099 minutes for the 12.92-mile track. “The R8 e-tron has given a magnificent demonstration of its […]
The Ford B-Max for 2012 comes with some superb features – not least including some truly premium ideas in what is a compact car. The sales speak places it in the ‘multi-activity vehicle market’, which is really the old MPV (multi purpose vehicle) segment. What does that mean though? It’s a car that is suitable […]
Isn’t that thing spectacular? It is the Jeff Koons BMW art car and it features at a landmark car park in Shoreditch for two weeks only from 21 July to 4 August. It is the first time that the BMW Art Car Collection is on show in the UK. The collection began 35 years ago […]
For most people, buying a car is a compromise of many different things. Here’s a list I considered off the top of my head recently: Safety Cost to buy Type of fuel Maintenance costs Insurance costs Body shape Toys Interior space Performance Security Brand reputation Reliability Deals offered The ‘X’ Factor So, can you add […]
In another success story for the industry, MG is looking to hire more experienced workers to join their teams working on the latest generation MG cars. Here’s the information directly from MG: SAIC Motor’s UK Technical Centre, based at MG Birmingham, needs to recruit professional engineers and designers due to the huge international success of […]
It did not go unnoticed by this author or indeed the blog that one of the greatest car designers of all time, Sergio Pininfarina, passed away on 2nd July 2012 at the age of 85. Sergio was the son of the design house founder Batista Farina. Pininfarina has been responsible for some of the most […]
The Land Rover ‘Journey of Discovery’ has raised one million pounds for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The journey began to mark the one millionth Land Rover Discovery manufactured, and the aim was to provide safe water and sanitation facilities in Uganda. This, for my money, is how you […]