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Once again, rather than risk diluting the message, here’s the facts straight from Suzuki: Following a condition experienced when carrying out an emergency braking test from high speed by Autocar magazine on a private road test facility on 30th January, Suzuki carried out an immediate investigation into the cause and is now in a position […]
Everyone knows that cars are, generally, going up in size rather than down. This is for a number of reasons but not least due to safety. Larger size cars can be more difficult to park, especially when car parking spaces have remained the same for a long time and in some car parks in fact […]
Yes, yes, Kadjar is a very strange name. But, that’s because it’s not actually an English word but two separate French words! The name KADJAR is built around KAD- and -JAR. KAD- is inspired by ‘quad’ – representing a go-anywhere four-wheeled vehicle and -JAR recalls the French words ‘agile’ and ‘jaillir’ representing agility and suddenly […]
The McLaren P1 is no slouch. It seems though that McLaren wanted to push it further than previously and the P1 GTR is the result. The standard car was scary enough (being a hypercar with immense speed and track ability) but the GTR really goes for it in the form of a 700 PS per […]
In what is brilliant news for the UK, Jaguar Land Rover has announced plans to create 1,300 jobs in 2015. This coincides with the confirmation of a Jaguar SUV (more details to follow on Car Articles over the next few days) which will be, we have no doubt, a huge commercial sales success. The Jaguar performance […]
Following a highly successful year in 2014 which saw brand new sales and world record prices, Silverstone Auctions has released details of its upcoming sales for 2015. The specialist auction house will begin the year by returning to Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire for its fourth sale at Race Retro, Europe’s premier historic motorsport show. The two […]
Toyota is opening the door to the hydrogen future, making available thousands of hydrogen fuel cell patents royalty free. Announced at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, this Toyota initiative will spur development and introduction of innovative fuel cell technologies around the world. Toyota will invite royalty-free use of approximately 5,680 fuel cell related patents held […]
Every so often, there is a piece of tech created that really makes you go wow. The HARMAN ISZ (Individual Sound Zones) is just such a development. It is designed to create sonic spaces so that all occupants in the vehicle hear only what matters to them. “Individual Sound Zones and the HALOsonic technology suite […]
A record £6 billion will be spent on tackling potholes and improving local roads between 2015 and 2021, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced earlier in December 2014. The investment amounts to £976 million a year, enough to fix around 18 million potholes across the country. It is the first time councils have been given locked-in […]
BUYING a used car in December rather than waiting until January could save enough money to cover the cost of Christmas. That’s according to car price analysis by the UK’s leading independent experts on car and motoring costs, CAP Automotive. December is always a quiet time for used car sales – followed by an explosion […]