Car News

Costly mistakes fuelling frustration at the pumps

It’s every motorist’s worst nightmare: filling your car with the wrong type of fuel. Misfuelling affects nearly 150,000 people annually according to a report by the AA, wasting enough fuel to fill 150 petrol tankers every year. Repairs can be costly, and in the worst case, requires the engine to be changed.

Audi fights for seventh Le Mans victory

On 16/17 June 2007 AUDI AG will again tackle one of motorsport’s biggest challenges of all: With three prototypes, Audi Sport Team Joest will be contesting the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s most demanding car race that will be staged for the 75th time this year.

Further boost for psychometric testing for drivers

Award-winning driver safety specialists, Peak Performance, have welcomed calls this week from a road safety expert for the introduction of psychological assessments to the UK driving test.

Qash injection boosts Nissan production

Nissan is to invest a further £2.4 million in its Sunderland plant, to increase QASHQAI production.

BMW Hydrogen 7 arrives at City Hall

The ground-breaking BMW Hydrogen 7 car was presented to Deputy Mayor of London and London Hydrogen Partnership Chair, Nicky Gavron, at City Hall (11 June) to raise awareness of hydrogen as an alternative energy source for tomorrow's consumers.

Romping home

A British couple are romping their way back to a Paris finish on this year’s Peking to Paris Challenge.

Audi TT shows its true colours

Individuality breeds content for the increasingly high proportion of Audi drivers wanting maximum scope for personalisation of their chosen model, and to meet this growing desire for ‘made-to-measure’ motoring the Vorsprung durch Technik brand is expanding its choice of bespoke trim options. The TT, with its new range of distinctive exclusive line interior colour schemes, is the latest to benefit.

White hot GT joins Accord range

Two new versions of the Accord will be launched in September to help Honda battle for honours in the competitive D-sector saloon market.

NAC and Healey sign historic agreement

Nanjing Automobile (Group) Corporation and Healey Automobile Consultants Limited, in conjunction with HFI Automotive Ltd, are delighted to announce their intention to collaborate with each other on the future development of the Healey and Austin Healey brands and sports cars bearing their name.

Love your alloys but hate cleaning them?

Jewelultra, the makers of Diamondbrite, have just launched an innovative new product which takes the grind out of keeping your alloy wheel trims in tip top condition.

World’s first ever ‘Scratch Car-d’

Thousands of people lined up, grabbed a penny and rubbed away on the world’s first ‘Scratch Car-d’. The unique SUV took two months to prepare and was completely covered in silver latex, the material found on lottery scratch cards, which took 14 hours to scratch off.