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It’s not every day that you get to celebrate a new car that’s marketed as a ‘street-legal lightweight supercar’. The VUHL 05 is just that and as you can see it is proper pocket rocket. The much vaunted Kop Hill Climb being held at Princes Risborough over the weekend of September 19/20th 2015 will be […]
Brake, the road safety charity, is running a free online training course next month – to help companies improve the safety of their drivers when out on the road. Brake’s Pledge training, sponsored by ARI Fleet UK, is being run as a series of online webinars this year to give managers and driver trainers the […]
Webuyanyvan.com has stepped in to help van owners and drivers with their ‘Walkaround Check List’, introduced by VOSA (now the DVSA) as a best practice guide. Every year, more than 10,000 vans are checked at random by the DVSA. At least 9 out of 10 vehicles stopped are dangerously overloaded, and over 6 in 10 […]
Thousands of car buyers are switching out of their bangers to newer cars to take advantage of low cost PCP deals, reports motor trade bible Glass’s – but at the same time the banger market is exploding with values and volumes rising. Rupert Pontin, head of valuations at Glass’s, said: “We are seeing something interesting […]
A supercar should have the wow factor and this 570S by McLaren Special Operations has exactly that. It features the uniquely formulated Mauvine Blue paint finish coupled with a bespoke interior finished in Carbon Black leather with co-ordinating detailing, carried through from the exterior colour. Now how’s that for fancy? The car will shown at […]
Road safety and breakdown cover specialist GEM Motoring Assist is urging drivers of cars equipped with daytime running lights to ensure their rear lights are on when it’s dark. The warning follows a spate of calls to GEM’s customer service team from members concerned about cars without rear lights. GEM chief executive David Williams MBE […]
Seat have recently gone from strength to strength and the latest hot hatch Leon Cupra certainly doesn’t disappoint. 276 bhp? That’s quite some figure in a front wheel drive car and it pushes the hot hatch from 0-62 in less than 5.7 seconds. This is a genuinely fast car that’s really rather good looking to […]
Further cuts have been made to the cost of diesel at Tesco, Sainsbury and Asda. Amazingly, this brings the cost of a litre of diesel below that of a litre of petrol. Oil has dropped as a commodity to below $50 per barrel making it the most affordable it has been for a long time. […]
A unique all-new Ford Focus RS, featuring an exterior designed by players of Forza Motorsport for Xbox, was unveiled yesterday at a special Microsoft event, ahead of the international 2015 Gamescom event in Cologne. The special Forza Focus RS was driven to the event – and accompanied during the evening – by the Stig from BBC’s […]
Here at Car Articles, we’re big fans of cars of all shapes and sizes. We’re also big fans of the recent advancements in mile per gallon technology for both diesel and petrol engines. After all, better fuel economy means we can use our cars without having to spend more cash right? More importantly perhaps it […]