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Racing driver Mark Webber chauffeurs tennis icon Maria Sharapova to top tennis party. Mark Webber and Maria Sharapova arrived in style for the glamorous Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Pre-Wimbledon Party in London. The works Porsche Le Mans driver drove Sharapova in a 918 Spyder – the most powerful Porsche road …

Japanese car giant Toyota celebrates sales of 100,000 hybrids in the UK. It’s hard to believe, but Toyota launched its first generation Prius on October 19, 2000. Now, 14 years on, 100,000 Toyota hybrids have been sold in the UK. So it’s fitting that the landmark car was a British-built …

Volkswagen has taken the wraps off its new hot hatch hybrid. VW claim the GTE will combine “the benefits of electric mobility with the dynamics of a Golf GTI”. The new Golf is now available in five drive types – petrol, diesel, electric, hybrid and natural gas (not in the …

2014 is said to be the year of the Toyota Hybrid. The popularity of these vehicles is always increasing, but why? Firstly let’s consider these types of cars in general. Hybrid cars use more than one means of propulsion and at the moment that means combining a conventional petrol or …

Choosing the right car for your family is an important decision. It’s one of your biggest financial investments and it matters because you want your family to be safe, comfortable and happy to spend hours at a time in the vehicle. A family car needs to have lots of space …

As a world population we have been seduced by the green message when it comes to new cars. The problem is that, the more we find out, the less we like what we hear. Electric vehicles were first introduced to us because oil is a finite resource. No oil – …

Electric vehicles (or EVs) offer plenty of benefits for a full-scale switch over to Volt-led motoring on the face of things – not least zero tailpipe emissions. So with the government subsidising your EV purchase by £5,000, why is the UK not seeing a significant increase in the take up …

Green vehicles are not only good for the environment, but can save you a bomb when it comes to fuel and tax. So, here are Automotive Blog”s top ten green combustion engine vehicles. Chevrolet Volt The Volt manages to be a hybrid but works solely as an electric until above …

It seems that Daimler have seen the future of car pooling and come up with an interesting mix of technology and travel.  Car2gether is the offshoot of Daimle’s Car2go scheme where the need for car ownership is removed, well at least if you live in Austin, Texas or Ulm, Germany.  …

With the government increasingly emphasising the importance of more environmentally friendly, green cars and even going to the lengths of offering thousands off certain green models, the popularity of the green, electric car can only increase- you would think. However a recent survey on attitudes towards electric cars by the …