DrivesouthShortcuts - your weekly snippets of motoring newsDrivesouth, New Zealand - Nov 28, 2008... for our verdicts on everything from the new diesel Toyota Corolla 2.0 D-4D, to the classic-looking Triumph Bonneville Black. Scott Columb rider training ...
Christian Audiger is pretty much venturing out into everything possible! Now he’s getting into customizing cars and of course he’s going all out like with everything he does.
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Last week on walletwatcher, we looked at how to save hundreds of pounds a year by using rail and bus travel wisely. Terrific, you may say. But I am unwilling to pick up the kids from school or do my Tesco shopping on the train. Tell me how to save money on motoring.
Before we even [...]
{summary}I’m feeling better this evening. A certain transportation issue had me in a foul mood for most of the day, but hormonally I think I’m coming around to normal. I remember when I was taking Lupron injections a few years ago and what kind of crazy, rampaging bitch they’d turned me into. I mean, seriously, I’m angst-y enough as it is without having my body thinking m
Do you know Alan Eaglesfield? Are you Alan Eaglesfield?A little less than a year ago I wrote a post on this blog about how Alan coined the phrase 'Spaghetti Junction' when he was a sub on the Birmingham Evening Mail. As I recall, I took the information from Wikipedia (naughty, I know).Then, earlier this week, I received an email from Paola Rezzilli, an assistant producer for a TV company currently
Daihatsu is launching a ‘National Cheaper Motoring Campaign’ to highlight the low running costs of its cars.
And one lucky customer will have the price of his new Daihatsu reimbursed as part of the nationwide sales push.
The free prize draw is open to anyone buying a new car during August and September.
Daihatsu’s entire [...]
If you are looking for a gift for your little aspiring auto aficionado, then check out Mini's MotoringGear kids section. They have several car-oriented gifts that could be right up your alley. Take a look at their Mini Baby Racer (II). It features...
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Maritz wins Killarney Regional – on a borrowed bikeMotoring, South Africa - Jun 9, 2008Rapson was baulked by a back marker for a moment on the last lap – but a moment was enough as Westman, Cragg and Andreas Sakkas (Triumph Daytona 675) dived ...
Visitors to Brooklands Motoring Festival: The Double Twelve will be treated to appearances from some of the most iconic vehicles of the past 100 years as they go head-to-head in a unique Concours D’Elegance.
Mercedes-Benz World and Brooklands Museum will jointly organise the two day Festival, taking place over 28/29 June, which will establish ‘The Double [...]
Here you can find various pictures and informations about several nominated ‘green car’ and scooter. Honda Civic Hybrid, Prius, Lexus’s GS450h petrol, Hyosung SF50R Rally, Peugeot Ludix Snake, Piaggio ZIP 50, SYM Mio 50, TGB 101S, Vespa LX50, The Verdict are chosen vehicle that are reviewed here.
Formula 1™ stars Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen are to drive the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1™ car at this year’s Brooklands Motoring Festival: The Double Twelve over 28/29 June.
The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team drivers will make a number of appearances in the car during the weekend as they take to the handling circuits at [...]
LONDON – Haymarket Consumer Media (HCM) is expanding its senior publishing team to reflect the explosive growth in its online business.
Stuart Forrest is to become Publishing Director of PistonHeads, HCM’s massive and fast-growing car enthusiast community website. Simultaneously, Andrew Golby is returning to Haymarket to be Publishing Director of the ‘outdoor leisure’ brands, replacing St
Saturday May 24 saw Renault President Carlos Ghosn arrive at the foot of the illustrious steps of the 61st Festival International du Film de Cannes at the wheel of Renault Laguna Coupe.Read more...
The editorial teams responsible for the tests have thus confirmed Continental's principle of setting a balanced performance ratio in terms of safety, comfort and economy when developing tyres.Read more...
By Karl Bantleman
See more with motoring holidays around Europe.
One way to get more out of your holiday is by driving. There is so much to see and do in Europe and you can spend your time driving through the picturesque countries of France, Spain, Italy and many more. Sometimes when you are on holiday you [...]
Premium oil brand Mobil 1 is celebrating its near-century long relationship with Mercedes-Benz as headline sponsor of the prestigious Brooklands Motoring Festival: the Double Twelve, on the 28 and 29 June at Mercedes-Benz World in Weybridge, Surrey.
The Festival, which is named in honour of the Double Twelve meetings of the 1930s, will welcome famous faces [...]
New models, exciting stunts at Amid showMotoring, South Africa - May 16, 2008Triumph will introduce three new models at the 2008 Amid show - the Street Triple 675; Speed Triple 1050 and Rocket Touring – and fuel-injected versions of ...
MGB - Guide to Purchase and DIY Restoration (A FOULIS motoring book) (Hardcover)By Lindsay Porter
17 used and new from $8.00 First tagged “automotive” by Christine E. Gough Customer tags: automotive [...]
Juiced-up Triumph logs 250km/h on school projectMotoring, South Africa - Apr 28, 2008Senior students at a UK school are running a Triumph Daytona 675 motorcycle on fuel they've made from windfall apples. A test-track run on April 24 logged ...
Classics from BCA – the new force in collectors’ vehicle sales - has donated £1,415 to the national disability charity, Motability. BCA makes a donation to the charity for every catalogue that is sold throughout the annual classic auction programme.
Cheating the weather gods at KillarneyMotoring, South Africa - 20 hours ago... led home Andreas Sakkas (Triumph Daytona 675), Westman and Michael Wahl (Suzuki GSX-R600) after the dice of the race, with 3.7sec covering all four. ...
According to the latest news, Britney Spears was enveloped in a minor traffic accident last Saturday night. California Highway Patrol Officer said that Britney was driving her 2008 Mercedes when the accident occurred. She was in a stop-and-go traffic when her MB struck a 2006 Nissan in front of her that had stopped. The front car was forwarded into another vehicle. And no damage was taken to any of the vehicles. Luckily, when the patrol made a report, nobody was cited and no one was injured at the incident.
Despite the earlier gloomier prognosis that the car would not be ready to be collected by half past five I received a call at 10 before five to let me know that the car was in fact ready.
I arrived at the Testing Station to find an argument ensuing as to whether the car was in fact ready to leave of not (something to do with a clip and the chassis). It was eventually decided that, yes, the car
Cupboardful of motoring magazines... paradiseic Wales, United Kingdom - Mar 28, 2008The room is decorated in a neutral mushroom colour, and the walls are decorated with a motoring picture and a quirky Triumph motorcycle clock. ...
DRIVERS buying new gas-guzzlers have been clobbered by the Chancellor, while those switching to greener cars will enjoy a one-year vehicle tax holiday.
Alistair Darling’s shake-up of the tax disc system introduces a one-off “showroom” tax to encourage car buyers to choose less polluting models.
It also nearly doubles the number of tax bands to 13 as a further incentive to fuel efficiency.
However, the changes were last night criticised by both car makers and environmentalists, who said they would do little to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
Motoring groups also warned Mr Darling that families needing large cars would be hit, while Friends of the Earth Scotland said postponing the fuel duty increase had left “all icing, no cake”.
Drivers of some of the most pollu
The three-wheeled Carver One is simply a quantum step forward in vehicle design and maneuverability. Imaging zipping around Europe like James Bond. Well, you can!
It’s a new 100% electric car which is very inspiring indeed! I think this is the way of the future. The aptera type 1 100% electric vehicle will hit the market in 2009, at an expected market price of only US$30,000. I would however like to see Aptera annouce a solar-powered recharging module that could be [...]
[Cross-posted] Sad news for car nuts: automotive and technical writer Jeff Daniels has passed away, according to Keith Adams’ Austin Rover Online website. There’s a longer piece at Just-auto.com. There probably isn’t anyone of my generation who doesn’t recall the greats like L. J. K. Setright, Jeff Daniels, George Bishop, Phil Hill and Paul Frère. Jeff wrote a column called ‘Danspeak’ in Autocar for many years, and it is probably his style, more than anyone else’s, that informed me when I started my columns. I found him one of the more knowledgeable car writers out there and it is sad that much of this old style of journalism has given way to the Jeremy Clarksons of this world. Just as in television presenting, where the William Woollards
I’ve always wondered why anyone who could hike up a mountain would want to ride a train up it, but apparently I’m just bass ackwards. This study shows that people value the train ride more than the hike when asked to convert the experience to dollars. Somehow I doubt they limited the study to the [...]
Some months ago, I went to the first meeting of London’s Club Entrepreneur, and had quite a fun time. However, I’m trying to schlep into London less and less as I get older, so I’d not been.
As it happened, though, I had a meeting in Baker Street yesterday afternoon, so call Tamkin Riaz to see whether he had an event running. Tamkin told me that the Club’s London meeting was that evening, and told me that the keynote speaker was Billy Schwer. Billy won the IBO light-welterweight belt in 2001. That much I knew.
What I’d not really appreciated until last night was that Billy is an entrepreneur as well as a sportsman, and that the discipline, determination and desire required to get to the number one in the world in a sport are very similar to the attributes requrired for growing a business. The last time I heard a professional sportsman give a talk was about 15 years ago (and it was Will Carling!) Billy seems, shall we say, more of a businessman than Will,
Are you thinking of getting or renewing your car insurance before this year ends? You better switch to netcars. They provide services like car loans, car insurance, assisting...
Audi cars are known for their very attractive design and also peerless build quality. All that with sporty performance to boot. But what goes on inside the engine bay is even more impressive. Take for example the new Audi A8 with the 2.8 FSI engine. Apart from being an entertaining drive, fuel economy figures make for some pretty impressive reading. It does 8.3l/100km and emits a lowest in class
Concept cars are definitely a way to test buyers opinion on next generation products, and the automotive industry doesn’t miss this opportunity. Jaguar’s next product line may include some features of their C-XF concept, if you happen to like what they’re proposing to you.
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TOYOTA'S new Aurion has won the coveted Best Large Car category in the 2006 Australia's Best Cars Awards. ldquo;The Aurion is the new cat that Toyota has set among the established pigeons, rdquo; said Best Cars Chief Judge, Ernest Litera...
"One of the farmers who organized the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture's annual meeting put it nicely: "The ethanol craze means that we're going to burn up the Midwest's last six inches of topsoil in our gas-tanks."The truth is, we will never be energy independent as long as we remain a car-fixated society. It's that simple. If we can't let go of the sunk costs associated with Happy Motoring, we're probably not going to make it very far into the future, either as a nation or a viable economy or as an orderly society. By sunk costs I mean our previous investments in car-oriented infrastructure.â€Jim KunstlerThe problem is that the most read paper in this world IS NOT the Financial Times, but the electricity bill, the gas bill, the fuel meter and the best piece of news is the one that tells that life is going to go on the same way, even better, it's enough to change "energy supplierâ€.As long as there will be the huge amount of interest behind the "Hap
Telling mistruths in an attempt to reduce car insurance costs could actually exacerbate financial problems for motorists, it has been suggested.
Research carried out by Gocompare reveals that although drivers may be tempted to give policy providers incorrect information - such as failing to make providers aware of modifications to their automobile - in a bid [...]
As I explained in my previous posting about MINI’s marketing strategy, there is an enormous amount of driver enthusiasm behind their approach. I decided to spend a bit of time with Murray, experiencing the phenomenon myself…
Once a month there is a little gathering of MINI drivers in Savannah, were folks meet up, have a cup [...]
The Chicago Sun Times reports that *gasp* drivers still talk on their cell phone whilst 're driving-- even after laws were enacted making the practice a ticket-able offence. No surprise there. A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety showed that a 2001 cell phone ban in New York State led to a dramatic decline in in-car cellular communications. Three years later and the percentage of drivers using cell phones from behind the wheel went right back up to pre-ban levels. Why? Lax law enforcement; in Chicago cops wrote 13,400 cell phone related tickets as compared to 2.8 million traffic tickets. The study also cites an "above the law" attitude amongst offenders. In other words, there's a large number of cell phone-wielding drivers who believe they're perfectly safe drivers, much like chronic speeders. In this, they are sadly mistaken, as anyone who talks on a cell phone while driving may be as dangerous as a drunk driver.
