The Volkswagen Passat has won Tow Car of the Year for a record third time. It won two clases and judges voted it the best model in terms of value for money as well. Most people don’t usually get to tow their trailer, horse box, boat or caravan before choosing a new or used car, so that’s why the results of The Tow Car Awards 2015, Britain’s biggest and … [Read more...]
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Car sales are collapsing in perceived growth countries
The BRIC wall is crumbling. Brazil's auto industry is expecting this year's downturn to be its worst since 1998, according to estimates from the national automakers association Anfavea, which slashed its 2015 outlook for the second time in two months. Automotive News reports that production is likely to drop 18 percent from last year, Anfavea said, … [Read more...]
Transport holds the key to keeping down global pollution
Europe can only meet the climate targets Heads of State agreed on for sectors outside the Emissions Trading System if it sets fuel efficiency standards for new cars, vans and lorries by 2025 or earlier, a new study by Transport & Environment reveals. In a middle-of-the-road scenario where transport would cut CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030 [2], the study … [Read more...]
Plotting to pass your test
By Kirsty Quartley, Garmin Product Manager The proposed new driving test, which incorporates the use of a sat nav in the car, is a great way of introducing future road users to using in-car technology in a safe and responsible manner. Our advice isn’t just about helping learner drivers pass their driving test, this is advice that even the most … [Read more...]
Newslines
Welsh Government has given the go-ahead for detailed plans to upgrade the A40 and A477 in West Wales. Some of the A40 road will be widened to allow 2+1 overtaking and eventual dual carriageway construction and further work will be undertaken to consider improving links to the Milford Haven seaway and services. Jaguar Land Rover is researching a new … [Read more...]
Ford GT heads to Le Mans in 2016
Ford will return to Le Mans next year. Fifty years after it recorded a remarkable 1-2-3 placing and won in the three following years, Ford now intends to field a four-car team at what many regard as the ultimate endurance race. Ford has yet to announce drivers but it has selected two teams to run the cars, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, … [Read more...]
Welsh AM wins national recognition for road safety work
Swansea East AM Mike Hedges has been named road safety parliamentarian of the month for May 2015 by the charity Brake and Direct Line Group. The award recognises the Swansea AM’s work to make walking and cycling to schools in Llansamlet safer, enabling more kids to enjoy healthy, active travel. Mike becomes the first Welsh Assembly Member to be … [Read more...]
Newslines
It was an unprecedented ask: plan, build and deliver not one, but two new models at the same time but Toyota Manufacturing UK has proved itself up to the challenge, completing the simultaneous start of production of new Auris and Avensis at its Burnaston car plant. At its most crucial point, the Derbyshire factory had to accelerate from building zero to 800 … [Read more...]
Welsh police lag behind drug-driving detection rates
Welsh police forces have shown widely differing detection rates for new drug-driving offences. Gwent Police failed to make any arrests at all for this offence in the first two months of its existence. Dyfed Powy made five arrests in two months, South Wales 8 in the same period but North Wales caught 34 in two months. The Institute of Advanced … [Read more...]
Welsh base for new hydrogen-car development
A multi-million pound investment to create a unique, ultra low carbon, hydrogen-fuelled car is being undertaken in Wales with Welsh Government support - and on track to be driving this summer. Riversimple Engineering - the green team behind the project - is building its production prototype in Llandrindod Wells where it has opened its new R&D … [Read more...]
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