Motoring

26 June 2007

Do you have to be gorgeous to drive recklessly?

Teen wild child Lindsay Lohan has added the title of most irresponsible female celebrity driver to her growing list of unwanted accolades, whilst Jamiroquai front man Jay Kay crashed into ...
23 June 2007

Sheilas’ Heels - A Safe Flat And Sassy Heel In One

How many times have you scuffed the back of your best stilettos whilst driving or one shoe’s fallen off very nearly causing an accident? How many of you – like ...

23 June 2007

Psychometric Testing For New Drivers?

Road safety experts have called for the introduction of psychological assessments to the UK driving test as the current test fails to root out drivers prone to breaking rules.Psychometric tests ...

23 June 2007

Stifle That Yawn!

The nation appears to be struck down by fatigue or boredom with more than 379 million yawns reverberating inside UK homes, offices and cars every day, according to a survey by esure.The ...

23 June 2007

100 Million: Britain Counts The Pothole Toll

Research from Kwik-Fit has calculated that Britain’s Pothole Toll is as much as a £100 million.That’s the annual amount over 1.1 million British motorists spend repairing or replacing pothole damaged ...

23 June 2007

'Careful Lady Owners' Are A Real Turn-Off

‘Careful lady owner’ is the single phrase most likely to deter readers of used-car ads from buying the car in question, according to a study by Craigslist, the free classified ...

23 June 2007

Watch Out- There’S A Bluetooth Bandit About

Motorists are being warned not to leave high-tech gadgets in their cars to prevent them falling victim to a new breed of sophisticated criminal dubbed the 'Bluetooth bandits'.Criminals are believed ...

23 June 2007

Staged Accidents Cost Millions

Staged accidents are costing the insurance industry millions each year as fraudsters deliberately cause an accident with an innocent driver or an accomplice in another car, in order to make ...

23 June 2007

Smoking In Cars Set To Rise

Smoking in cars could be set to increase once the smoking ban in public places is introduced in England next month.Research conducted by Privilege Insurance, shows that in Scotland there ...

23 June 2007

BP Ultimate Breakfast Club

BP Offers Le Mans Ticket Holders The Full Monty Between the 14 - 17 June over 60,000 Brits are expected to cross the Channel to join the 250,000 strong crowd of ...

23 June 2007

Hood Down Hazards Forecast For This Summer’s Scorcher

With forecasters promising another summer scorcher, sales of convertible cars are going through the roof with 4% of new cars now able to go topless compared to just 1% ten ...

23 June 2007

The Saab 9-3 Triplets Have Gone Under The Knife

Saab 9-3 - The triplets in the Saab 9-3 range have all decided that growing old gracefully was not for them and have taken the plunge by going under the ...

18 June 2007

Lexus LS 460 On The Road

Lexus LS 460 Is The Hunt Finally Over?While would be treasure hunters continue to seek the buried Volvo XC90 in conjunction with Pirates of the Caribbean, my personal hunt for ...

15 June 2007

Car Salesmen - The sellers we don't trust

"An overwhelming majority of Brits admit deciding whether to buy a car based on the first impressions given by the car salesman. .But what are the traits buyers find most ...

14 June 2007

Extra Cost Of Speed Cameras

Accelerated Roll-Out Of Speed Cameras Costs Motorists £144.6 Million Each Year26 per cent increase in speed cameras in past 12 months led to £700,000 rise in fines for motorists*Speeding led ...

12 June 2007

Chevrolet Captiva SUV

It seems an age since GM decided to launch their Chevrolet range in the UK, but now after several false starts Chevrolet have finally arrived in town in the guise ...

9 June 2007

Free Garage Checks For Women Drivers- That’s A Foxy Idea

At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, we all know we should look after our cars because a poorly-maintained one will be less safe, less reliable, less environmentally-friendly and ...

9 June 2007

SAAB Helps Drive For Cleaner Heir

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has given Saab BioPower the green light, getting behind the wheel of the UK’s first eco-friendly convertible.Well known for his interest in the ...

9 June 2007

Driving Test Should Include Motorway And Night-Time Driving

Newly qualified drivers are ill equipped to take to UK roads because the driving test is out of date, according to both instructors and novice drivers in a new research ...

9 June 2007

Make Dad A Safer Driver Or Give Him A Boys Toy This Fathers Day?

Sunday 17 June is Fathers day so how about giving Dad something to help in his role as family chauffeur - a DriveCheck voucher from the Institute of Advanced Motorists ...

9 June 2007

Motorists Demand New Up Dated Road Signs

New research in a poll of 2,500 motorists by Vauxhall reveals that 47 % do not understand the most common road signs.Vauxhall are now calling for an update of the ...

9 June 2007

Review The New Peugeot 207 GTi THP 175

Peugeot 207 GTi THP 175 If you thought GTi’s were a thing of the past, then think again as Peugeot proudly present their version of the GTi on the popular ...

3 June 2007

Motoring - More Bans At The Wheel?

Following the ban on hand held mobile phones; the Local Authority Road Safety Officers' Association have recently called for a ban on smoking whilst driving.However, while the Association of British ...

3 June 2007

Are You Being Serviced?

That is a bit of an ambiguous question but according to Kwik-Fit, millions of motorists are on a collision course with a huge repair bill after its research found that ...