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Britain’s sprawling gas network is still reliant on a fleet of ageing aircraft engines, some stripped from 1960s RAF Lightning fighter jets, it has emerged.Jon Butterworth, chief executive of National Gas, said many of the engines that drive gas t…
VAUXHALL has always managed to combine its everymanmotoring philosophy with atinge of sportiness. Down theyears, its run-of-the-mill Vivas,Novas, Astras and Victors havehad their fair share of sportsmodels to add a spark of interest
The Astra GSE
The…
AS the third SUV in its line-up after the Jazz and CR-V, the third generation Honda HR-V[1] comes only with a petrol-electric powertrain utilisig two electric motors and an Atkinson-cycle petrol engine for greater efficiency as a hybrid and it showed …
IT may surprise many that MG is one of the fastest, if not the fastest growing car brands in the UK.
This after an uncertain start after being purchased by Chinese giant SAIC and lauding some not-so-memorable vehicles. They were cheap yes, but not nec…
Three fire engines and around 15 firefighters attended the scene of the rush hour bus fire at Wimbledon Hill Road on Thursday.[1]
The bus was quickly evacuated, and the fire was put out.
Following the incident, Transport for London (TfL) said electric …
Jim Redman was a legend on the 1960s motorcycle circuit. Known as the thinking man’s rider, he was a six-time world champion with 46 Grand Prix wins to his name. Son Jimmy may not have been as committed a biker but he inherited his father’s passion for…
Volvo[1] is gearing up to launch an EV successor to the S90[2] saloon later this year according to pictures and information leaked online. Swedish motoring magazine Teknikens Varld[3] says the first pre-production examples of the new Volvo ES90 have b…
A global shortage of specialist transport ships has put the brakes on the Chinese electric car invasion of Britain.One in three electric cars sold in Britain last year, or 32.7pc, were manufactured in China,[1] according to figures published by th…
An electric bus fleet has been withdrawn in south London after a double-decker caught fire.
Three fire engines and around 15 firefighters attended the scene of the rush-hour fire in Wimbledon Hill Road on Thursday. The bus was quickly evacuated and the…
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13 January 2024
I’m intrigued by James Attwood’s recent drive of the Audi Q8 E-tron Edition Dakar[1].
It’s a car that at once could be easily dismissed as an expensive folly: only a few will be a few made, it costs some £20,000 more than …