If you are going to drive your car during bad weather, you need to ensure that it is safe and ready for any conditions you may face – or you may end up like the poor Golf R32 pictured above! It is advised to have the following checked in bad weather conditions - [...]
13 Jan
After nine generations the Mitsubishi Evo had gone about as far down the extreme rally replica route as it was possible to go. So for this all-new car Mitsubishi had to find a way of distilling this formidable heritage into a more usable package, without diluting what made it special in the first place. Mitsubishi’s [...]
12 Jan
The Nissan GT-R has had such an impact over the last 12 months it would be impossible to ignore and the scale of Nissan’s achievement deserves to be recognised. Even the most hardened roadtesters have struggled to get to grips with just how fast the GT-R actually is. Put simply the mighty Nissan offers 911 [...]
07 Jan
There is no doubt there has been some huge upheavals in the car industry over the last year of 2008. And there is also no doubt there is likely plenty more to come too, but for now we should put that aside and look at and celebrate some of the best cars of 2008. Obvious [...]
19 Dec
Rear-facing not only turns out to be safer for infants, but for people of all ages. In fact, we would all be safer rear-facing in cars, airplanes, trains and elsewhere. Of course, this would not be acceptable to most adults. When seating babies, it is best to remain rear-facing to the weight and height [...]
18 Dec
Frontal crashes are more frequent, more severe and usually have less ride-down time than rear-end crashes. In such a frontal crash, it is easy to see why a rear-facing carseat is a better choice. The entire shell of the carseat cradles the child’s back, neck and head. Some seats even have foam protection in the [...]
17 Dec
When your child is sat in the car seat ideally you want the child to be coupled in as tightly as possible to the harness system and car seat, and the car seat as tight as possible to the vehicle with the seatbelt of latch system. When you do this, the child gains all the [...]
16 Dec
The speed of a vehicle is very important to the energy in a crash, even more important than the weight in the vehicle, when frontal and frontal offset crashes occur they are the most severe as they often happen when both vehicles are traveling at a high speed and in a opposite direction. Rear and [...]
16 Dec
Even with best practice, not all injuries can be prevented. Some crashes are unsurvivable. Still, much of best practice is based on statistics, and how to have the best chance to reduce injuries. Best practice may also be based on crash forces and physics. Both are very important regarding the use of rear facing seats. [...]
25 Nov
Green Flag offers one of the most competitively priced vehicle breakdown and recovery services in the UK today. Since its formation in 1971 as ‘National Breakdown’, the company has grown to serve some 5 million motorists in the UK with 24-hour breakdown assistance, 365 days of the year. Green Flag’s cheap breakdown cover is [...]
21 Nov
Cars are becoming more like computers so it is no surprise that fewer people than ever are willing to dive under the bonnet of the car when a vehicle breakdown occurs. High-tech devices now control most of a modern cars engines performance, and now a laptop is the only device needed being used as a [...]
21 Nov
Broken down vehicles can sometimes lead to horror stories that have been the result of a broken down vehicle being in a dangerous place, broken down vehicles at the side of the road run the risk of being hit by passing traffic, is the simple act of changing a flat tyre on a motorway hard [...]
21 Nov
Statistics from the UK’s leading breakdown cover providers have shown that Britain’s vehicle breakdown services are called into action on an average 20,000 times each day. The most common reasons for the calls outs are flat batteries, punctured tyres and general engine troubles. A high percentage of these breakdown issues are resolved at the roadside [...]
19 Nov
Scottish driver Allan McNish has been voted ‘Driver of the Decade’ in the American Le Mans Series. Allan McNish is a Audi racer, who won the 2000, 2006 and 2007 ALMS championship titles and received the most votes cast by fans of the North American-based endurance sportscar series. ‘It is an accolade that has come [...]
18 Nov
The famous Nurburgring is having building work on a massive scale and it’s all part of a €215 million investment that’ll see Europe’s most famous race track build on its popular track day reputation to become what marketing boss Stephan Cimbal describes as a motor sport theme park that’s open 365 days a year. Work [...]
14 Nov
1.) Ensure that Tyre pressures are maintained as per manufacturer specifications. Over or under inflated tyres would mean better mileage or better handling respectively but will drastically reduce the Tyre life. 2.) Adjust Tyre pressure when the Tyre is hot, i.e when the vehicle has run for 15 to 20 km. Hot air expands if [...]
11 Nov
A basic guide can be defined as the loss of traction between a vehicle’s tyres and the road surface due to the forces acting on the vehicle. Most skids are caused by driver error, although only about 15% of accidents are the direct result of a vehicle skidding. Skids occurring in other accidents are usually [...]
26 Jan