What forces are working to influence your choice of car?
For private and business drivers alike, our choice of car can be influenced by many more factors than we care to admit or even know about.
Contract Hire and Leasing News by Alisdair Suttie
Why Jeep’s car-hacking ordeal won’t wreak havoc on the roads
The past week has witnessed one of the automotive industry’s worst fears coming to life. A hacker was able to access a car and take control of it via its onboard systems to isolate the driver from ...
Zero tolerance to bad driving is the only way to make our roads safer
We hear a lot about how the police try ever more to work with and within communities, making themselves a more approachable institution. It’s a very sound way to go about the business of policing, ...
One tyre to rule them all: has Firestone developed the ultimate year-round tyre?
It might seem a little early to be discussing winter tyres given we’re in the middle of summer, but it’s a curiously appropriate time to think ahead. Given the UK’s unpredictable weather and the nu...
Why Top Gear needs to die a death – for the time being, at least
Farewell Top Gear telly, we enjoyed your irreverent nonsense, smashing up cars and generally messing about. Hello new Top Gear. What you have in store is anyone’s guess, but I suspect it will be a...
Want the key to becoming a better driver? Find it in a toy shop near you
It was my birthday recently and I received a present that initially made my heart sink. Nope, it wasn’t socks or soap on a rope, it was one accompanied by the dreaded words ‘you’ll enjoy building t...
Cars have already been on a radical evolutionary journey, and it’s only the beginning…
The car started out as a wholly functional piece of design. It was nothing more than a ‘horseless carriage’, where the engine replaced four legs and a tail. From that simple start point, the car h...
It’s boom-time at Land Rover but what does the future hold?
Land Rover is one of the great success stories of the British motoring industry. From the original utility vehicle’s inception and launch in 1948, by way of the 1970 arrival of the Range Rover and ...
First Drive Review: BMW 2 Series Gran Tourer 2016
The 2 Series Gran Tourer is streets ahead of Mercedes' B-Class and offers much better quality and dynamics than the likes of the Ford C-Max and Vauxhall Zafira
How much does brand awareness influence the cars we choose to drive?
At a dinner the other evening, I was sat next to the Brand Manager for a very exclusive sports car manufacturer. Making conversation, I asked what the job involved and the answer was making sure th...
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