BMW’s 3 Series has long been the bread and butter of its range, bringing in that steady flow of sales and customers to convert into cash and long-term owners that help fund the company’s other acti...
‘Why don’t you go and catch some proper criminals?’ is a popular refrain for some caught by the police for poor driving. Many of us will have felt a similar antipathy towards those treading the blu...
Not so very long ago, France was something of a free-for-all when it came to speeding. The péage (toll road) was notoriously free from meddling traffic cops and if you were worried about having you...
The celebrities arrived, cooed and quaffed, then they scarpered off to the next glitterati event, leaving BMW to look at its newly launched i3 electric car. With the A-, B- and C-listers now long ...
If you ever needed any evidence the whole SUV sector is far from terminal decline, as predicted by so many doomsayers a few years ago, just look at the new sub-compact sector. Where once this area...
School’s out for summer and Alice Cooper never sang a truer word, though the Boomtown Rats may have been on to something with their ditty ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’. Enough rock ‘n’ roll musing, thoug...
When the Ford Mondeo emerged back in 1993, it was intended as a world car for the brand, one which could be sold in all markets with little or no change to save the Blue Oval money. It was an ambit...
There was a collective jump for joy at ContractHireAndLeasing when we heard about the government’s plans to introduce new police powers to deal with middle-lane hoggers and other forms of anti-soci...
Many business car users will have no need to visit a car showroom other than to pass a bit of time while their car is serviced. After all, most of us pick a car from a list and already have a fair ...
After talking about autonomous, or driverless, cars last week, I thought I’d better try one out and the nice people at Bosch kindly obliged with a passenger ride in a BMW 325 Touring. While I may ...
