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  • New road tax rules to start on 1 April - are you ready for the VED changes? 20 Mar 2017 (News)
    rules - which only affect new cars bought after 1 April - will  add more than £500 to the long-term running costs  of Britain’s most-popular and eco-friendly vehicles, while providing significant benefits for some
  • New 2017 road tax rules – what do they mean for you? 20 Feb 2017 (News)
    VED rules - which only affect new cars bought after 1 April - will add more than £500 to the long-term running costs  of Britain’s most-popular and eco-friendly vehicles, while providing significant benefits for some
  • James Hunt's Hesketh under the hammer in Monaco 4 Feb 2014 (News)
    to win a world championship race. The car, which gave James Hunt his shot at the big time was run by one of the most interesting teams to hit the Formula 1 paddock during the 1970s. Hesketh Racing was formed in 1972 by the British Peer, Lord Alexander Hesketh. After two seasons of racing
  • Packed starting grids at Croft Circuit this weekend 9 Sep 2011 (News)
    the www.croftcircuit.co.uk website or call the circuit on 01325 721815 for more details.   The event is the first of two race meetings at Croft in the next fortnight – another bumper fixture, run by the famed British Automobile Racing Club, is in store on the weekend of 24-25 September
  • Nissan to Set Two New Records at Festival of Speed 24 Jun 2011 (News)
    ON HILL CLIMB COURSE In a more conventional demonstration run on the hill climb course, one of the Sumo Power GT team’s GT1 race-winning Nissan GT-Rs.. Celebrating the second win in succession of the RAC tourist trophy at Silverstone in the FIA GT1 championship this year, the 600HP
  • Santa Pod Raceway Presents Bug Jam 25: 22nd to 24th July 13 Jun 2011 (News)
    in the many ‘Run What You Brung’ sessions held over the weekend. Running on the strip throughout the show will be Fireforce, Santa Pod’s own 280mph Jet Car, the insane Jet Beetle and of course, the 7-second quarter mile turning 2 seat dragster, for the very brave to ride in. Polishing buffs
  • Quickest Ever Mazda MX5 Race Car Breaks Cover 23 Mar 2011 (News)
    boxes and is now set to demonstrate its challenger spirit on the track. Jota Sport, the race engineering team that will run the cars in the 2011 series, took 400 hours to build the shell to a specification that ensured it was 17 times stronger than required by the FIA.  During the development
  • BCA Reports Mixed Messages In September Auction Prices 8 Oct 2009 (News)
    in the fleet & lease sector, to record another strong month.  The 3.5% rise was the largest recorded since June, although performance against CAP Clean fell for the second month running
  • Right Turns Major Cause of Rural Car Crashes 1 May 2009 (News)
    . The study revealed that a further third of claims were attributed to poor driving. These involved a wide range of scenarios, including vehicles colliding or running off the road because they were going too fast, failure to stop at junctions, and drivers not seeing other vehicles or pedestrians in time
  • Dacia's Bi-Fuel LPG option will give a claimed 620-mile range 16 Jun 2020 (News)
    Dacia is offering a new dual-fuel powertrain, making it the only mainstream manufacturer to offer new cars that run on LPG (liquid petroleum gas
  • New Volkswagen Golf GTI revealed 27 Feb 2020 (News)
    pairs a 1.4-litre petrol engine with an electric motor to provide a GTI-matching 245PS. A bigger-than-before 13kWh battery means it can now cover 37 miles under electric power alone, while its trick predictive hybrid control means it'll charge up the batteries on the motorway and run in electric mode
  • Group B cars had to Silverstone 12 Jun 2019 (News)
    common sense and reasonable safety levels. When FISA, the then world governing body, culled the category following a series of terrifying accidents, Group B was immortalised. The cars will take part in demonstration runs in the event’s popular live demos area (located on a stretch of ex
  • Pristine Matching Numbers Aston Martin DB5 in Historics 22nd September Auction. 14 Aug 2018 (News)
    still opposition at the Britwell Salome classic car charity run last Sunday. This TD21 automatic has been owned since 2009 by the vendor who has enjoyed
  • Curios: Ford Supervan 9 Jan 2018 (News)
    running gear. And the rear floor was cut to take the V8 and the unit was reworked to 4999c, which gave an estimated power output of 435bhp… in a Transit that weighed about 1.5 tons. With all that grunt, some serious work was needed to make sure it could get around bends and stop. Upgraded
  • A Grand Monday: Volvo 740 11 Dec 2017 (News)
    . It has covered 136,000 miles, which is barely run in for any car fitted with the Volvo B23 engine, while the beige 'Trico-Weave' interior looks to have held up extremely well, with none of the droopy headlining that has blighted many a 740. The exterior, finished in an oh-so-period metallic gold, looks
  • Ford extends scrappage scheme into 2018 11 Dec 2017 (News)
    . >> Take a look at all the other scrappage schemes currently running UK commercial vehicle sales - made up of vans and pick-ups - in November were also down over 11 per cent compared with November 2016. But Ford's commercial vehicle market share continues to increase, standing at 33 per
  • Dramatic finish for inaugural Blue Train Challenge 28 Sep 2017 (News)
    . Inspired by the legendary run by the Bentley of Wolf Barnato from Cannes to London in March 1930, the Blue Train Challenge set off from Deauville with James Gately and Tony Brooks driving into the lead in their 1937 Cadillac Convertible.    As the event (organised by the Endurance Rally
  • A Grand Monday: Ford Orion 1.3 25 Sep 2017 (News)
    - a car that is mere steps away from becoming an automotive dodo. Despite a production run of more than three million cars, there are fewer than 500 Orions currently taxed in the UK. Of those, none are the entry-level four-speed 1.3L. Admittedly, it takes a special kind of commitment
  • A Grand Monday: Nissan Sunny 11 Sep 2017 (News)
    . But the ride was decent, the handling more than adequate and the packaging as good as anything that Europe could offer.  It also had clockwork reliability, which meant that many Sunnys disappeared as a result of chronic neglect, run into the ground as taxis and takeaway delivery vehicles - a far
  • A Grand Monday: Citroen GSA 14 Aug 2017 (News)
    short of remarkable. A run of the moulin hatchback from the early 1980s (albeit a quirky and quite entertaining one) has been exhumed from what, by rights, should have been its final resting place, and has been brought back from the dead.  That's an incredible feat. And if there aren't any
 

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