Renting your car to a complete stranger?
How would you feel about renting your personally owned vehicle out to a complete stranger? Happy to do it, uneasy about it or no way, absolutely not!? It seems that lots of us are indeed prepared to take the risk and are making money by renting their vehicle when it’s not being used, it’s an […]
Audi RS5 abandoned in flood water
A fabulous Audi RS5 that had been left abandoned in flood water has been completely stripped down to its chassis by thieves In early January the UK weather had been awful and the £60,000 grey Audi RS5 had been abandoned in three feet of water under a railway bridge in Chertsey, Surry. One local resident […]
First ever recorded crossing of Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter
At the end of last year a Range Rover Sport accomplished the first ever recorded crossing of Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter by a standard production vehicle The 2014 Range Rover Sport, driven by Moi Torrallardona – a 47 year old Spanish off road racer of 10 Dakar Rallies – set off on 3 November from […]
BMW shows off its driverless drift cars
Unveiling the latest autonomous driving technology at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, BMW presented their modified 2 series Coupe and 6 series Gran Coupe. These prototypes are fitted with a LIDAR system, ultrasonic sensors, environment tracking cameras and 360 degree radar, all of which enable them to race around a track at […]
UK to become world development centre for autonomous vehicles
The Government has announced its intentions for the UK to become world development centre for autonomous vehicles – although we are a little behind as Japan and some states in the US are already carrying out their own driverless vehicle testing, Google’s own self drive car has recently completed 500,000 road testing miles. A £10m […]
The European 2014 Car of the Year Award short list has been announced.
An initial list of thirty eligible vehicles has been whittled down by The Car of the Year Jury to the final short list of seven manufacturers and the winner of the award will be revealed on 3rd March 2014, the eve of the Geneva Motor Show. Fifty eight judges from twenty two European countries are […]
No Compare!
The Financial Conduct Authority is set to investigate price comparison websites (PCWs) to determine whether customers are being misled. The financial watchdog will focus on the 14 largest price comparison websites, which account for 90% of the PCW market, in an effort to identify any possible conflict of interest and discover whether consumers are being […]
Another New Mini
The new Mini is here and, in tribute to the creator of the original Mini – Sir Alec Issigonis – the latest version of this iconic little car was unveiled on what would have been his 107th birthday. This Mini is positively bursting with a range of new technology including head up display, rear view parking […]
Catalytic converter theft doubled
Thefts of from parked vehicles have more than doubled over three years with reports of almost 25,000 stolen in the UK since 2010. Catalytic converters are used to reduce the poisonous gases from vehicle exhaust systems; they are an important, but often very expensive, part and drivers can be faced with having to pay thousands of […]
MoT Cost Frozen
The cost of the MoT test for a car will be frozen as part of a package of UK Government measures aimed at helping cash strapped motorists to reduce the cost of running a car. The statutory maximum MoT test price for a car will be capped at £54.85 until 2015, ruling out a possible […]