First Drive Review: Jeep Cherokee
We’re all for a bit of retro here, so the new Jeep Cherokee should appeal. After all, Jeep has made much of the latest Cherokee’s kinked grille being inspired by the 1960s Wagoneer model, which is ...
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Car makers need to start taking their small cars seriously again
The trend for downsizing engines is now well established among car makers, as is the fascination with making cars lighter. By dropping an engine size or two, car makers are able to shimmy into emis...
How much does advertising bump up the price of a car?
The recent Goodwood Festival of Speed was nothing but an unmitigated success, proving that you cannot have too much of a good thing. It is the perfect classic car event, mixing style, luxury and ac...
Drivers aren’t the only danger on Britain’s roads
Drivers of all sorts of vehicles come in for a great deal of flak when it comes to road safety. Much of it is deserved and this column has been unwavering in its criticism of poor driving standards...
First Drive Review: BMW i8
Hyper-hybrid supercars have been grabbing the headlines in the weekly, monthly and digital inkies for most of 2014. Ferrari, McLaren and Porsche have all come up with cars that are as sensational a...
The UK’s cleaner and greener car manufacturing industry is setting the world standard
It can be all too easy to slip into a mindset of negativity and gloomy doom when you drive a car in the UK. After all, we’re continually reminded that we are responsible for Global Warming, melting...
You aren’t as good a driver as you think you are, here’s why…
If you were asked to rate your skill as a driver between one and 10, where would you place yourself? Modesty might prevent you from going right to the top, but definitely above average, right? That...
Cars are going to get more connected; you better get used to it
Whether you like it or not, think it’s common sense or Big Brother encroaching too far into the car, we will see E-call become standard fit in all new cars and light commercial vehicles from Octobe...
Higher speeding fines should be accompanied by real policing
It was only last week this column was making the point that UK maximum speed limits are seriously out of kilter with the modern world we live and drive in. It seems the government must be avid read...
Extreme speeding offences prove that our 70mph blanket limit is outdated
The highest speed recorded by police in England and Wales in the year from April 2014 and April 2014 was 149mph. There’s no two ways about it, that is very fast and the motorist clocked at this spe...
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