Sunday, 8. May 2011
What car do you think drivers voted their number one in this years Auto Express Driver Power survey? Wrong! It’s the Skoda Superb. The poll ranks the findings of 23,000 readers. It takes the top 100 models revealing what drivers love and hate about their cars and ranks them in order. For the third year running Skoda has topped the manufacturers list Read more »
Saturday, 7. May 2011
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Got a 4WD car, then expect to have it stolen! According to stolen vehicle recovery company, Tracker, SUV’s, especially the top of the range cars, head up the list of cars most likely to be nicked! Top of the stolen car list in 2010 was the BMW X5 followed very closely by the Range Rover. In third and fourth place were performance cars, the BMW Read more »
Saturday, 7. May 2011
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Sometimes I feel that technology has gone too far with some safety and comfort features taking over your driving and control of the car. This was illustrated recently when Mercedes had to recall 18,000 Mercedes M Class because the cruise control wouldn’t disengage when you tapped the brake pedal, as it’s meant to. If you’ve driven a car with cruise Read more »
Friday, 6. May 2011
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Halfords have warned drivers about making sure they don’t cut costs in the area of servicing their cars. Obviously they would as they are suffering substantial drops in turnover but the serious side is that cars are probably getting quite dangerous if they aren’t being serviced. Chief Executive at Halfords said that their engineers were seeing cars turn up Read more »
Thursday, 5. May 2011
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Whilst the debate continues as to whether the future for the car is electric or hydrogen Toyota have announced that their new family sized electric car to challenge the Nissan Leaf will make full use of many of the apps that are available via Microsoft as a result of a joint venture. The idea is to make the new cars ‘information terminals’ with new apps that Read more »
Wednesday, 4. May 2011
As you may or may not know Mini is owned by BMW who also own Rolls Royce. Well those clever (or totally daft) people at BMW have decided to create a Rolls Royce of Minis called the Mini Goodwood. The car will be built in the same way that the £285,000 Phantom would be built using the same materials! Just what we all need of course, Read more »
Tuesday, 3. May 2011
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Evidence shows that drivers are not attentive 66% of the time. This was revealed by Dr Nick Reed, senior researcher into human behaviour at the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), at a seminar into driver distraction organised by road safety charity, Brake. If it wasn’t such a serious subject I could reveal a few distractions that could easily lead to Read more »
Monday, 2. May 2011
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In a report prepared by Auto Express they have revealed that motorists should be aware of the ways that automatic number plate recognition (APNR) is now being used. We have become obsessed with cameras watching our every move, whatever we’re doing from driving to walking down the street, buying a bar of chocolate or catching a train. But Read more »
Sunday, 1. May 2011
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Toyota and Honda have run into production difficulties following the Japanese tsunami. Honda had scaled down production of its Civic, Jazz and CR-V models at Swindon in Wiltshire by half earlier in April and have now announced short time working whilst their Japanese plants, producing essential parts, get back up to full capacity. Toyota shut Read more »
Monday, 25. April 2011
It would seem that we are getting very close to the time when, by far the biggest running cost, when it comes to cars, i.e. depreciation, is overtaken by the cost of fuel. CFC Solutions have made this claim looking at the way fuel prices are increasing compared to the cost of depreciation for the average 2.0litre upper medium petrol company car. It was in Read more »