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Motorpoint is holding an Assessment Day with a difference for potential new employees. The UK’s leading independent car retailer, which already employs over 800 people nationwide, is looking to expand its successful online sales team at its Derby HQ. Motorpoint, recently named a Sunday Times Top 100 Company to Work For for a fourth successive […]
Nearly half of motorists (47%) feel they’ve overpaid for car repairs because of confusing jargon used by mechanics (MotorEasy survey of 2,000 motorists nationwide). Drivers hearing their ‘big end’ has gone or they’ve got ‘mayonnaise’ under their oil cap is causing them to lose faith in their garages. MotorEasy is calling time on confusing mechanic […]
Female racing driver Aseel Al Hamad celebrated the end of the ban on women drivers with a lap of honour in a Jaguar F-TYPE. Aseel, the first female board member of the Saudi Arabian Motor Federation, had never driven on a track in her home country before. Aseel joined Jaguar in a call for June 24th to […]
Bentley’s 600 bhp luxury Bentayga SUV will be tackling the Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb on the 3rd and 4th June 2017 in a bid to recreate history, by setting a new women’s record. In September 1926 and 1927 Miss May Cunliffe set new ladies records in a 3 litre Bentley and to mark the 80th […]
Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is the call by a coalition of industry, NGOs and consumer groups for the European Commission to bring forward new minimum safety standards for new cars, vans and trucks. There have been too many delays in making these standards mandatory, and lives are being lost unnecessarily, GEM says. […]
This makes for some genuinely interesting, morbid, horrifying reading. The BBC has produced a map from official police statistics demonstrating the location of every UK road death from 1999-2010. In all, 36,371 fatalities are marked on the interactive map. Granted, it isn’t light or pleasing reading, but perhaps it will help you identify some accident […]
The BBC has some excellent analysis on why the cost of fuel is rising yet again – the net result being that it is forcing some families off the road. With the squeeze on finances ever more difficult for most to cope with, do you think that the government will do anything to alleviate the […]
Gordon Shedden left the world-famous Kent venue of Brands Hatch as the newly crowned 2012 BTCC Champion. Shedden, from Fife, becomes the first Scottish driver to lift the most coveted prize in UK motor sport since his own hero, John Cleland, in 1995. Andrew Jordan collected the Independent Drivers’ Trophy, Honda/Dynamics the Manufacturers/Constructors Championship and […]
We all know that Local Authorities are suffering cutbacks. They aren’t except – in the same way that nowhere in the country is safe in the current economic climate. So, what about the safety of children provided by school crossing patrols? The Telegraph has an excellent article looking at the impact that cuts may have […]
We’re always being told that the reason behind speed cameras is to slow people down in order to make a certain spot less dangerous. Of course, that’s assuming that speed has actually been a factor in the accidents that have taken place previously. To be fair, it’s not rocket science to assume this, given that […]