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Revised Audi Q5 announced
Filed under: Latest News Audi has announced a mid-life facelift for the Q5, with prices starting at £33,400. The main changes centre around engine efficiency, with fuel consumption gains of up to 15%....
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Emergency braking systems to lower insurance premiums?
Filed under: Latest News Speaking at an international conference, Thatcham Research, the insurance companies' technology centre, said that insurance premiums could be lowered for cars fitted with...
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China to be No. 1 market for Jaguar Land Rover
Filed under: Jaguar, Land Rover, Latest News Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said that China will soon overtake the UK as its leading market. Sales in China rose to 42,000 - that is almost as many as it...
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Blocked-in parked driver barges his way free
Filed under: Latest News This video was originally reported by the Jalopnik website as having been shot in Greece, but we reckon it must have been taken in Russia. There are way too many Russian built...
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RHA calls for fuel price cut
Filed under: Latest News The Road Haulage Association has called for fuel price cuts as the only way to get the country out of recession. It says that price cuts at the start of the year would almost...
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First production Ford B-MAX previewed
Filed under: Latest News We think that Nissan and Vauxhall should be worried, as the new B-MAX, which was previewed at Ford's headquarters in Essex yesterday, is designed to revolutionise the B-segment...
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Tips from the experts: driving through flash floods
Filed under: Comment With the Met Office warning of torrential rain for a good while to come, here's the IAM's advice on driving through flash floods. As it happens, we drove through some of the worst...
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Video: Ferrari celebrates 8m Facebook fans, Top Gear style
Filed under: Latest News Ferrari has hit 8,000,000 official Facebook fans, so to celebrate, it sent a 458 Italia out to its famous Fiorano test track and had it do a bit of drawing. There's a video of...
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Driver distraction? There's an app for that...
Filed under: Latest News Road safety charity RoadSafe has revealed that six in ten young drivers agree they're being distracted behind the wheel by smartphone apps - with two in ten saying they've...
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True mpg figures reveal shocking fuel economy reality
Filed under: Consumer Consumer car mag What Car? has launched its True MPG programme, which aims to show the actual, real-world fuel economy of the UK's most popular cars - as opposed to the...
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Ultimate Nissan GT-R lands in the UK
Filed under: Consumer The £85,000 Nissan GT-R track pack edition has arrived in the UK, featuring track-biased modifications while being fully road legal. The mods include the addition of lightweight...
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Wildly OTT Bugatti 16C Galibier saloon previewed by wildly OTT video
Filed under: Latest News Bugatti has taken to YouTube to remind us that it's still got a million-pound megasaloon on the cards. The Bugatti 16C Galibier is in some senses the forgotten hypercar, having...
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Ford announces new Focus ST prices
Filed under: Humour Ford has put a price on the eagerly anticipated Focus ST hot hatch: £21,995. The estate version will cost from £23,095. That actually makes it startling value for money - a...
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One-off Eric Clapton Ferrari unveiled
Filed under: Humour When you're Eric Clapton, it's not just Fender you can ring up and have make you something with your name on it - Ferrari will take the call, too. So here we have the Ferrari SP12...
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BMW planning 1 Series saloon
Filed under: Humour BMW's model proliferation may soon be in the same league as Audi's, as the company is planning a saloon version of the 1 Series. It'll become the fifth 1 Series variant, joining the...
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Charity welcomes lower drink drive limit for Scotland
Filed under: Latest News Road safety charity Brake has welcomed the plan to lower the drink drive limit in Scotland - and called for the British Government to follow suit. Scottish Justice Secretary...
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Long-term test: Kia Picanto 2 EcoDynamics
Filed under: Road Tests It's a glib thing to say these days, but Kia is a company on the up (there, we said it anyways). That's probably nowhere better demonstrated than in a new Picanto - a car that...
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Proton confirms it isn't selling Lotus...for now
Filed under: Humour Following the announcement that Dany Bahar has been suspended from his position as CEO of Lotus pending an investigation into irregularities, Proton has announced that the Norfolk...
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NEWSFLASH: Over half of Brits don't trust self-driving cars
Filed under: Humour Top scientific research has found that 58% of drivers wouldn't trust a self-driving car. Shame on them. David Hasselhoff judges them harshly. In one of the most blindingly awesome...
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Volvo tests 'road train' in public
Filed under: Buying and Selling Volvo has tested its 'road train' principle for the first time on a public road. A road train is a convoy of semi-autonomous cars, all following a lead car driven by an...
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