7 million UK cars "...

Filed under: Latest News According to a survey by Britannia Rescue of just over 2,000 motorists, almost a quarter (23%) of motorists admit their cars have a defect which renders them illegal and 14% say their vehicle is in urgent need of repair . The most common issue is bald tyres ,...

World’s smallest ...

Filed under: Consumer The world’s smallest ever production car, the Peel P50, has been brought back to life as a zero emissions electric runabout. It gives eco savvy urbanites the opportunity to abandon the G-Wiz and explore new heights of automotive silliness. Measuring at 137cm...

Volkswagen Take up! and...

Filed under: First Drive As we said when we drove it first last year, ‘the only way is up!’ and it seems that the UK media agree as What Car? magazine recently crowned the up! its Car of The Year 2012. Well, now the fun and funky small car is available in the UK. We got to...

February car market: Va...

Filed under: Latest News The UK car market saw some dramatic changes in fortune in February. The main winner was Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). Thanks to the launch of the Evoque , Land Rover sales rose by 36% year-to-date, with Jaguar sales going up by a rather more modest 3%. We tend to...

Over 1m ‘clocked&...

Filed under: Consumer The car history checkers over at HPI Check have said that more than one million of the cars it looked at last year had an inconsistent mileage reading, suggesting they’d been clocked. The surprising number shows that, far from being an dying issue limited to...

Red Bull and McLaren to...

Filed under: Formula One A general consensus has emerged about the likely pecking-order this weekend in Australia. Based on winter testing, this year’s longest-ever F1 season looks set to be very closely contested, but experts, pundits and insiders fairly agree about the rough...

Kia Rio 1.1 CRDi Ecodyn...

Filed under: Road Tests Thanks to Alex’s recent road test and my first drive at the launch last year, we already know that the latest Kia Rio is a stark contrast to its predecessor, being a genuinely interesting, high-value alternative to a Ford Fiesta . However, we’ve only...

Geneva Motor Show: Ferr...

Filed under: Geneva Motor Show Ferrari, having launched its most mentalist series production car ever at the Geneva Show, has also wheeled out a more beefy version of its limpest car, the California. Lighter and more powerful, the new California now has 483bhp from its 4.3-litre V8, up...

Volkswagen Amarok Canyo...

Besides the Polo, Caddy, Multivan, and of course, the Scirocco , one of the most interesting Volkswagens we don’t get here in the U.S. is the Amarok pickup. Handsome, versatile, and quite large by European standards—but mid-size by ours—the Amarok is about as close to an F-150 as...

World-famous 1972 Dodge...

Long before the Ford E-series became the de facto transport for the punk nation, the venerable Dodge D-series/Sportsman (and, to a lesser extent, its Plymouth Voyager sibling) was the chariot of choice for transporting people, gear, and pompous arrogance cross-country in search of...