Private Number Plates
I live, like many millions of people, quite close to a city centre. This means that I have to park my car in a specific controlled zone. My zone happens to called “S1”, and if I was particularly forgetful I…
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New Fiat Panda 2012 Review (First look)
The last couple of cars I have had a first look at were, shall we say a tad exotic. They were not exactly run of the mill everyday vehicular transport for the masses. So this time around I thought I’d…
Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle Funding
They come in all shapes and sizes, with the tag wheelchair accessible vehicles usually shortened to WAV, which is certainly much less of a mouthful! But no matter what they’re called – disability cars, disabled cars, mobility cars, wheelchair cars…
Sat Nav Systems Through the Ages
Just a few years ago, the idea that a small box would be able to direct car drivers through the warren of streets in any given city would have been met with perplexed expressions. Yet in a relatively short space…
Not all doom and gloom
There’s a war going on at the moment. Not quite as life threatening or politically significant as in Libya or Afghanistan but it’s affecting the lives of ordinary British citizens. It’s between Tesco, Sainsbury’s and other major supermarkets. For the…
First Look: Mercedes Benz B-Class
Recently Mercedes Benz announced their New Mercedes Car, the B-Class. The car has been heavily under wraps so far with regards to what it looks like but Mercedes have been kind enough to release a picture of the B-class’ interior…
BMW Group post record financial results
It seems like it not all doom and gloom these days for luxury car manufacturers. BMW This week have announced record financial results that have seen their revenue increase by 16.5% to 17.9 billion euros. With this BMW saw, in…
Jaguar XKR-S Review
In building this car, Jaguar made it very clear exactly what they wanted to do and that is very simple; to create (in their own words) “The fastest and most powerful production sports car Jaguar has ever built”. Jaguar promised…
Mazda to Support RAF Typhoon Display Team
Mazda Motors UK has announced that it is proud to be providing vehicular support to the RAF Typhoon Display Team for its activities during 2011 The Typhoon is a multi-purpose jet used by the Royal Air Force to protect the…
BMW M1 Coupe Review
BMW’s 1 series has always been a car to cause great debate ever since its release in 2004. From criticisms about its small boot, cramped rear legroom and flame surfaced design to it’s almost pseudo BMW facade, i.e. just bought…