Archive for April, 2010

Silver takes gold in UK charts

Silver takes gold in UK charts

1 in 4 people in the UK buy the same colour car each year. In 1998, revealed the SMMT, this would be a red car. In 2008, though, it was ...

BMW PR shows professionalism of industry

BMW PR shows professionalism of industry

I never thought I’d write that I was stuck in the US for a week because of an erupting volcano. A quick car launch for a facelift became the longest ...

Discuss: BMW X5 facelift

Discuss: BMW X5 facelift

BMW X5 owners, your help is needed! The new 2010 BMW X5 LCI: Yes, it’s extremely able on the road, and the mechanical enhancements put the gloss on an already ...

Vauxhall does the electric car market a favour

Vauxhall does the electric car market a favour

NISSAN is going to be the first big brand to launch an electric car in the UK, with the radical and potentially game-changing LEAF. It is a bold move by ...

EV shock from Nissan LEAF news

EV shock from Nissan LEAF news

ELECTRIC cars are coming and next week I’ll be amongst the press corps driving the first family EV to go on sale in Britain. Nissan is holding a LEAF first-drive ...

How to buy the World Cup of motorsport

How to buy the World Cup of motorsport

WORLD Cup fever kicks off this summer but you can get in right now – even if you’re not a football fan. Up for auction is, well, ‘the A1 GP ...

BBC comes up trumps for MG Rover

BBC comes up trumps for MG Rover

MG Rover’s collapse is still painfully too fresh for some, even half a decade on. That’s because it happened in modern netnews times. Where everything is real time. Everything is ...

BMW April Fool brilliance (again)

BMW April Fool brilliance (again)

ELECTION fever is well under way in the UK, with just days to go before the PM calls the next election. BMW has thus pulled a smart one – by ...