Vauxhall Commercial Vehicles

Vauxhall Commercial Vehicles topped the retail sales charts with over 2,000 vans registered in the crucial month of September, according to figures released by the Society of Motor....

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Proposed legislation

 

Proposed legislation is due to be passed limiting the average CO2 emissions of LCV manufacturers retailing vehicles within the EU. The scheme is similar in structure ....

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Fuel Prices

Fuel prices will be pushing ever higher over the coming weeks is the warning from the Road Haulage Association.

As a result of a weakened Pound (suffering a loss of around 6....

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Government could raise speed limit

Transport secretary Philip Hammond is considering raising the motorway speed limit to 80mph in order to shorten journey times and boost the economy.

Hammond claimed the anti-car lobby used r....

Read further... Posted on 10/06/2010

BMW confirms new brand and first Electric Vehicle

BMW has confirmed its first electric vehicle with the launch of a new sub-brand coming in 2013.

The Megacity Vehicle will be a rear-engined car around the size of a lower medium hatchback,....

Read further... Posted on 27/04/2010

Man loses licence after being caught drink-driving toy car

A man who was caught drink-driving a Barbie car has been banned for three years. The car in question isn’t the Fiat 500 Barbie edition but a children’s electric car which can reach th....

Read further... Posted on 22/04/2010

Tories vow to clean up company car tax

The Conservative party has stated that they would intend to do away with the existing company car tax system if they arrive into power.

Shadow secretary of state for transport Theresa Villi....

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Sales of used cars drop thanks to scrappage scheme

 

sales of used small car are suffering in the face of scrappage scheme success, the latest data from information service experts, Experian reveals.

Used car sales fell by 6.6....

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No more scrappage scheme - What now?

 

Now that the scrappage scheme has been scrapped, questions are being raised as to how the UK motoring industry will be effected by its end.

The chief executive of Pendragon, T....

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Motorists upset with latest budget increase

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling MP gave little in the way of help to embattled motorists. The biggest news related to motoring from the 2010 budget was a staggering of the near 3p incr....

Read further... Posted on 25/03/2010

Scrappage scheme has 75,000 registrations left

UK dealers have until the end of this month to use up 75,000 registrations that are left as part of the scrappage scheme.

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders reported that 324,991....

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New delay on road safety strategy

Britain’s next 10-year road safety strategy, which will lay the framework that all Government-backed road safety initiatives will follow until 2020, is unlikely to be published before the gen....

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Ford extends eco features with Econetic Technologies

Ford has created a new environmental initiative to develop technologies that will bring down CO2 emissions and fuel consumption on all its vehicles.

Econetic Technologies marks a change in e....

Read further... Posted on 05/03/2010

Audi shows off new A8 hybrid

Another concept car making its debut in the petrolhead-packed Swiss city of Geneva this week is the Audi A8 hybrid. It has two engines – a 2.0 TFSI and an electric power unit – which to....

Read further... Posted on 04/03/2010

Car sales grow by 26 per cent

New car sales grew by 26.4 per cent in February this year, compared to the same month of 2009, the latest data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has revealed.

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Read further... Posted on 04/03/2010