Chelsea manager José Mourinho was among the stars celebrating the official UK launch of the Jaguar F-TYPE Coupé. During the event in London, the “Special One” (who’s also a Jaguar UK ambassador) was asked what he thought of the car – he smiled and said: “How can this old man …
Read More »Renault’s radical new Twingo
Renault has taken the wraps off the latest version of its popular city car, the Twingo. The French giant claims to have taken “inspiration from the legacy left by the original Twingo and the Renault 5”. The result is a huge improvement on the second generation Twingo which seemed to …
Read More »Bentley dancing on ice
This is what happens when you let a World Rally legend loose in a Bentley on a frozen lake. Juha Kankkunen looks like he’s having a ball putting the all-wheel drive Flying Spur through its paces in Finland. The four-time champion is one of the star attractions at this year’s …
Read More »What Are You Watching?
It has been reported recently that some enterprising criminal has been renting set-top boxes that show the full compliment of a well known satellite broadcaster’s TV output at a fraction of the price officially charged. Somehow or other he has managed to by-pass their system. For many of us who …
Read More »Pothole Disgrace
Despite all the usual rhetoric from government sources about how they are going to do this and that, Britain’s pothole strewn roads continue to leave motorists with an annual bill of £1.2 billion for suspension, steering and wheel repairs – a rise of 16% in just twelve months. With heavy …
Read More »Driving Back The Years
According to yet another one of those endless motoring surveys there are now more than seven million drivers over the age of sixty-five on the Britain’s roads. The number of drivers over the current pensionable age had reached 7,191,192 by November last year. This makes up nineteen per cent of …
Read More »When There’s Stormy Weather, Take Extra Care
Following our recent bout of severe weather and very strong winds it doesn’t hurt to think about the best driving techniques to cope with the conditions should we be caught out. Strong winds can certainly unsettle your car and even change your direction of travel. This is especially true for …
Read More »More Of A Personal Statement, Mr Bond
“…and what name would you like on the registration document, Sir?” “Bond, James Bond.” How much does it cost, do you think, to change your name by deed poll? Unfortunately, for most of us the sort of vehicle driven by JB in all his incarnations is out of the price …
Read More »THE CAR – Essential To Modern Life
Cars. We’ve all grown up with them, driven them and loved them and now, thanks to the economic woes of the world, it is getting harder and harder to own them. According to an Auto Trader survey some fifty four per cent of those asked believe the economic situation has …
Read More »Are UK Motorists Being Spied On?
Here in the UK we take the privacy of our personal data very seriously, which is more than can be said for some private companies or government agencies who either dispense it, for a fee, to people or organisations who say they need it, or, they lose it in …
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