New Focus ST prices announced
According to Ford this is one of the UK’s ‘most keenly-anticipated performance hatchbacks’. Available from today – so form an orderly queue – the ST w...
June 01, 2012 2 Min Read
A Brief History of Map Reading
When you go out driving with your fancy Dan sat nav it is easy to forget how lucky we are these days. I came across some details of the first ever in-...
June 01, 2012 2 Min Read
Jaguar tops vehicle ownership study
I don’t know who is more surprised by this announcement – me or Jaguar. But the best car to own is the Jaguar which claims the top spot in the J.D. Po...
May 31, 2012 3 Min Read
Speed Cameras Now a Fiasco?
You might not know the name Roger Reynolds, but he played a part in the history of UK driving. 20 years ago he was a traffic division sergeant who was...
May 31, 2012 3 Min Read
Mobile Phones: As Staggering as Doughnuts with Cream in the Middle
It seems that a week doesn’t go by without us being told about the dangerous things which we need to avoid doing while driving. First it was drinking,...
May 30, 2012 2 Min Read
New Gran Coupe breaks new ground
We’re just a few days away from BMW’s new 6 Series Gran Coupe being available. This is the German marque’s first four-door coupé and is an elegant and...
May 30, 2012 2 Min Read
The Saab and the Beautiful
The other day I made some comments “on the side” about how much of a pity I think it is that Sweden’s Saab went ‘game over’. You may remember that the...
May 30, 2012 3 Min Read
Let’s Name it After a Jet Fighter!
I just picked up some news about a totally uninteresting car today. Uninteresting, primarily because I wouldn’t look at it twice when I were to see it...
May 30, 2012 3 Min Read
From A to B with a Bit of Fun
I was saddened to read a piece of motoring news today. Mainly because it destroyed a little theory I had been building up in recent times. My idea sta...
May 29, 2012 3 Min Read
Ford sales ‘eco-boosted’ by new car
It’s a sign of the times but Ford’s new Focus EcoBoost accounts for one in five of its new car sales. As we’ve said previously the 1.0 litre motor sol...
May 29, 2012 2 Min Read
Festival of Speed – Racing Gamers Wanted
I hung up my Spectrum 128 joystick a few years ago but it looks as though I might be tempted to get playing again soon. I had a few different racing g...
May 28, 2012 2 Min Read
Easy Rider
I’m still in China this week and so my observations of Chinese motoring continue. Regardless of how much of a heap of junk your car actually is, if yo...
May 28, 2012 4 Min Read
New BMW 7 Series announced
With its army of fans, the new BMW 7 Series is heading our way and it’s still an impressive car. There are some styling changes but the German firm is...
May 28, 2012 2 Min Read
Izuogu: Nigeria’s Car That Never Was
The automotive industry is one of the most consolidated in the world, where the top four manufacturers (Toyota, GM, VW and Hyundai, in that order) acc...
May 27, 2012 3 Min Read
Resurrection?
If you tend to keep informed about motoring news, you will have seen it already. The new Renault Alpine A110-50 concept has been all over the news th...
May 26, 2012 3 Min Read
