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With Britain poised to succumb to winter’s icy grip for another year, owners of All-Wheel Drive Subaru vehicles will once again be called upon to become motoring Good Samaritans – rescuing friends, neighbours and fellow motorists stranded in the ice and snow. In response to the increasingly bleak forecasts, Subaru – backed by the AA […]
Winter can play hell with the finish of your car. How best to look after that oh so tricky paintwork? Turtle Wax may just have the answer: With winter just around the corner and temperatures set to plummet, against the backdrop of ever-increasing motoring costs, Turtle Wax, the UK’s leading car care brand, is urging […]
It’s essential that you check your tyre pressures regularly and this especially applies to winter. If you’re getting near to the tread wear markers and you see cracking on a tyre, this is not a good sign. You might well notice some deformation too if the tyre is old. All this means you could well […]
There’s recently been some press coverage over issues around ownership of new vehicles fitted with a diesel particulate filter, or DPF. It stops the nasty black smoky stuff from pouring out of the exhaust of your diesel powered car. It seems that some owners of said diesels are feeling a little mis-sold, as they are […]
Wouldn’t you just love to whizz around the Italian city of Lucca as the lads are doing here? If so, which of the 3 hot hatches would you choose between the Fiat 500 Abarth, The Renaultsport Clio and the Citroen DS3 Racing? My money would be on the Fiat 500 Abarth, it is the only […]
In one of the closest final events of the 2011 motoring calendar, the BTCC boys really took it to the wire. A number of names were in contention coming in to the final race, including Matt Neal, Mat Jackson, Gordon Shedden and the ever present Jason Plato. Neal won the opening race, with Shedden taking […]
Car Articles has previously covered the issue of apparent handbrake failure in some makes of Vauxhall car in two separate articles, namely here – http://www.cararticles.co.uk/uk-vauxhall-hit-by-renewed-faulty-handbrake-alarm.html and here – http://www.cararticles.co.uk/uk-vauxhall-handbrake-problem-part-2.html It looks as though some of you may be getting some satisfaction, though granted this is some years on from the original complaint. Mandy in particular […]
Poor weather is on the way. This includes wind, rain and there’s a forecast for snow this month too (I know, after this sunny reprieve as well!). Cars do not simply maintain themselves. With that in mind, here are five things I’d recommend checking regularly as we come into poorer weather and darker nights: 1) […]
This is the review that you’ve been waiting for if you’re a MINI fan; it’s the new SD! It’s placed firmly between the Cooper S in that it has performance, but it has a lovely torquey diesel engine of the Cooper D. Does it manage to carry off the best of both worlds though? Watch […]
It’s no secret that the government is looking to go ahead with changes to the MOT system – this is for a number of reasons but will actually bring us in line with a number of other countries on the continent (whether they have our wet and cold climate is another issue altogether mind). Reg […]