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A brand new event celebrating Britain’s most popular car brand is set to become one of the biggest highlights of the show calendar when it opens its doors for the first time in 2016. The International Ford Fair will be held at Sandown Park, Surrey, on the outskirts of London, on the weekend of April […]
Jaguar Land Rover is set to invest £450 million to expand its Engine Manufacturing Centre. Total investment in the site, which opened a year ago, now stands at £1bn making it the most significant new automotive manufacturing facility to be built in the UK in the last decade. The EMC is home to the high […]
Whilst we at Car Articles love our sports models, we also praise vehicles for a wide variety of reasons. One of those is practicality and another is good design. The 2015 Volvo XC90 is the safest that the iconic Swedish marque has ever produced. That’s quite some claim considering that the original XC90 only had […]
In this video, Auto Express reviews the new Infinity Q30. Thankfully it isn’t an SUV. It is however a compact hatchback. The car is reasonably practical although some of the styling cues are a little bit fiddly and over designed to our mind. As you’ll see from the video the Q30 is certainly premium. So […]
I had the misfortune to have to go out at a peak time today, to the supermarket of all places. I’ll name it as I’m there fairly often. It’s an Asda. Now I’ve nothing against Asda itself, otherwise I wouldn’t have been there. The problem lies with the small roundabout on the approach to it. […]
We’re now firmly in the grip of Winter. Around 2-4 centimetres of snow lay last night whilst I was out. Luckily it had cleared by the morning but evidently the coldest season has well and truly taken hold. With that in mind and the greater likelihood of further snow, the IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) […]
The Government should consider a diesel scrappage scheme and ensure that Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) changes tackle harmful NO2 pollution as well as climate-changing CO2 to encourage drivers to move away from polluting diesel vehicles. The Environmental Audit Committee has today published its response to the Government’s Draft plans to improve air quality in the […]
Writing in the Winter 2015 80th anniversary edition of Good Motoring magazine (published 1 December 2015), Al Suttie offers sound advice for anyone thinking about buying a used Land Rover Defender. Introduction The original workhorse and warhorse, the Defender can trace its ancestry back to the first Land Rover of 1948. Due for replacement in […]
We have, the general public, been led to believe that when a car reaches the magic number of 100,000 miles that two things happen: It becomes completely worthless It will go severely wrong For the record, that’s simply not the case anymore. Engines are finely tuned things and have an excellent lifespan. Equally, bodywork is extremely […]
The Heritage Motor Centre, home to the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, announced a number of exciting new changes on Friday 13th November. The world’s largest collection of historic British cars is re-branding the name of its venue at Gaydon to the British Motor Museum, and undertaking a major refurbishment of its Museum this winter as well as […]