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Buying a Car Safely

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:43:12 +0000

The element of trust between a car dealer and a buyer is one thing that must be strong if the purchase is going to go through smoothly. After all, paying for a car is big business – it costs a lot of money and is pretty much unrivalled in terms of one-off payments, unless you buy [...]

Flying Cars – Terrafugia Transition

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:04:26 +0000

The concept of the general public taking to the sky in a small flying car has been around for quite some time. Now it is closer than ever to becoming a reality.

Flying Car - The Terrafugia Transition

Optimistic aviation experts are claiming that we could be flying our own transport within 5 years thanks to vehicles [...]

Nissan UK Car Production on the up

admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:50:26 +0000

Nissan’s UK Plant Sees its 13th Straight Year of Superiority in New Car Production

Nissan is seeing great success all over the world, especially in light of the debut of the LEAF, its all-electric vehicle, at the end of 2010. The Japan-based manufacturer has also had a significant influence in the UK since the 1980s. Its production [...]

The end of Ford’s 2.5-litre turbo

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:07:25 +0000

Ford’s characterful five-cylinder engine is to die. The 2.5-litre turbocharged appears in a number of Ford products, from the Kuga SUV and S-Max people carrier to the Focus ST and RS. Now that Ford’s cleaner and cleverer Ecoboost engines are on the scene, though, the writing is on the wall for the warbling five-pot.

While it’s an [...]

Rabble-rousing about petrol prices

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:01:12 +0000

Labour’s Lindsay Hoyle is ignorant of the facts when he fingers fuel barons for pump prices when his government is to blame

In the run up to an election campaign, how useful for us to see how politics actually works in the raw. That view being given to us by Lindsay Hoyle MP in his recent piece [...]

Petrol prices heading for record high of £5.40 a gallon, AA warns motorists

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:57:45 +0000

The AA and RAC are urging the chancellor to postpone a planned 3p hike in petrol duty, due on 1 April

Motorists should brace for record high petrol prices this year as the cost of unleaded fuel surges to £1.20 a litre or more, according to research by the AA.

In a stark warning to consumers, the organisation [...]

Petrol prices remain high as wholesale costs fall

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:42:36 +0000

Average cost of petrol remains at 112p a litre with some paying 124.9p despite wholesale price dropping over 34p in January

Motorists are still paying around 112p a litre for petrol despite recent falls in the wholesale cost of fuel, the AA said today.

The motoring group said between mid-January and mid-February retailers had increased the price of [...]

Halfords to create 1,000 jobs as it moves into car servicing and repairs

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:41:12 +0000

• Car-parts chain buys Nationwide Autocentres chain for £73.2m

• Repairs market booming as recession means cars getting older

Car-parts chain Halfords has snapped up Nationwide Autocentres for £73.2m and announced plans to create more than 1,000 jobs over the next five years as it looks to grab a lucrative slice of the UK’s car servicing and repair [...]

RIP: the innocent age of motoring

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:38:24 +0000

For me driving lost its romance long before Toyota’s troubles – a lifetime of breakdowns, flat tyres and dodgy garages saw to that

Is the crisis at Toyota the collapse of civilisation as we know it? It had seemed that the one thing you could count on in an increasingly uncertain and dangerous world was the reliability [...]

Toyota issues global recall of hybrid cars

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:33:59 +0000

Toyota is to recall almost half a million hybrid cars worldwide, including 8,500 of its Prius model in the UK, in the latest blow to the carmaker’s reputation following a string of safety scares.

The recall will begin immediately in Japan and similar measures are being prepared overseas, the firm said today. Toyota GB announced that the [...]