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Did you know that it’s six times more likely for drivers to have an accident in the winter than in the summer? We’ve got together with Mark Griffiths, safety expert at Continental Tyres, to give you top tips for driving safely this winter… especially if the weather takes a turn …

Lexus reckons it’s created the world’s coolest car with wheels crafted from solid ice! The driveable NX was created in association with London-based Hamilton Ice Sculptors and the project involved three months’ research, design and testing. For the Lexus commission – the first of its kind – genuine NX wheels …

Vauxhall Motors is auctioning off a piece of motoring history – the Vauxhall Astra used by BBC Top Gear as their ‘Reasonably Priced Car’. The five-door Power Red 1.6-litre Astra Tech Line has been added to eBay raise funds to raise awareness and funds for the automotive industry charity, BEN. …

The two millionth Land Rover Defender has sold for a record £400,000 – thought to be most valuable production Land Rover ever to be sold at auction. The one-of-a-kind Land Rover ‘Defender 2,000,000’ went under the hammer at a charity auction in London held by Bonhams. All proceeds from the …

British motoring icon Jaguar is to enter a team in the third season of the FIA Formula E Championship in the autumn of 2016. Formula E is the world’s first global single-seater championship for electric powered cars and Jaguar Land Rover believes it will provide a real world performance test …

Citroën has applied its protective Airbump pads, as seen on the C4 Cactus, to Footpool – the “latest experiential sports-based craze”. As the official automotive partner of Arsenal Football Club, Citroën teamed up with four star players for a doubles match and a trick-shot masterclass on a special Airbump Footpool …

It shouldn’t be underestimated how important Jaguar’s new baby, the XE, is to the future prosperity of the company. Overlooking the controversial Mondeo-based X-Type when Jaguar was under Ford ownership, the XE is Jaguar’s first serious attempt to tackle the all-important compact executive market. Here, the plucky Brit is up …

Watch Formula One legend Martin Brundle drag-race the new Jaguar XJR against the fastest man in the sky, Yves ‘Jetman’ Rossy in the Dubai desert. Brundle had the new all-aluminium 550PS, 5.0-litre supercharged V8 Jaguar XJR at his disposal while Rossy was strapped to his 2m-wide fixed wing, powered by …

World Champion wakeboarder towed by a car across flooded causeway in unique Dunlop Winter Sport 5 tyre test. Nick Davies wake-boarded behind a car driven by the current British Touring Car Championship rookie of the year, Josh Cook, along the treacherous Holy Island stretch in NE England. The causeway can …

More than 70% of Brits admit their own poor driving adds to road rage, according to new research. The study by Continental Tyres reveals that  many motorists have double-standards and get wound up by the bad habits of others which makes them angry and drive more aggressively. The responses of …