Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Triple FIA World Touring Car Champion racing driver Andy Priaulx was in London today to unveil of a set of stamps commemorating his title hat trick. Guernsey Post is issuing the special miniature sheet focussing on Andy’s three world titles with Andy being the only driver to take the three consecutive World Touring Car crowns. This is the second set in Andy’s honour following an issue celebrating his first world championship title.
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Women hoping to attract male attention should get behind the wheel of a classic convertible, and be able to drive it well, according to a survey from evecars.com.
The women’s car website polled a cross-section of men to discover which cars they’d be most impressed to see a woman driving. The winner was the Mercedes-Benz SL Roadster, a classic model built from 1955 to 1963, and made famous by Grace Kelly who drove the car in the film High Society.
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
The Earl of March has today (Wednesday 19 December) confirmed the theme of the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed, which is ‘Hawthorn to Hamilton – Britain’s Love Affair with World Motor Sport’. Britain has always played a key role in the global motor racing industry, forging successful relationships with the rest of the motor sport world. From Mike Hawthorn – who used a Ferrari to become Britain’s first Formula 1 World Champion fifty years ago in 1958 – to current F1 star Lewis Hamilton, driving a British engineered car with German power, British drivers and engineers have utilised global resources to achieve success. The 2008 Festival honours these winning combinations.
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
As millions of people prepare to drive home for Christmas this Friday, car care specialist, Comma, is urging people to carry a high visibility vest in their car as one of the busiest days of the year for Britain’s breakdown services coincides with the shortest daylight hours of the year.
Earlier this year, Comma highlighted the dangers of not being seen clearly by the side of the road when it launched its www.safeandseen.co.uk campaign, designed to lobby for a new law, making it mandatory for every motorist to carry a hi-vis vest in their vehicle. Some 250 people are killed or seriously injured each year on the hard shoulder of the UK’s motorways alone.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Christmas is coming early for classic car enthusiasts as BCA stages its special Vintage & Collectors’ sale at the Blackbushe auction centre on Tuesday 27th November at 12 Noon.
BCA will offer a superb selection of vehicles spanning the years of motoring history – and being Christmas – there will be something to tempt the most discerning of palates. With a selection box that includes Vintage and pre-war models, sports cars and low mileage modern classics, collectors might need to clear a bit of space underneath the Christmas tree this year!
The 1934 Packard Eight Sedan was originally supplied to Fiorello H. LaGuardia, a prominent political figure in the US who served three terms as Mayor of New York from 1934 to 1945. The car was imported to the UK and restored some years ago and has been maintained as part of an impressive stable of Packard motorcars. The body is finished in two-tone grey livery and trimmed inside in fawn Bedford Cord and West of England Cloth.
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
The Department for Transport has today published National Statistics on Traffic in Great Britain, including analyses by vehicle type and road class, for the third quarter of 2007.
These provisional figures indicate that estimated traffic levels rose by 1.1 per cent between Q3 2006 and Q3 2007. Other key results, comparing the provisional Q3 2007 estimates with the final estimates for the same quarter one year earlier (Q3 2006), include:
- Car traffic decreased by 1 per cent
- Light van traffic increased by 12 per cent
- Goods vehicle traffic increased by 3 per cent
- Traffic on minor urban roads and rural A roads rose by 6 per cent and 1 per cent respectively
- Traffic on minor rural roads was virtually unchanged
- Traffic on motorways and urban A roads fell by 1 per cent and 3 per cent respectively
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
An exclusive parade of 20 cars from the GROUP20 SuperCar Club stable, with a combined value of around £2 million, will be seen all over England next week as part of a special fundraising drive for Children in Need.
The campaigning cavalcade will include some of the world’s most exclusive four-wheeled exotica, including an Aston Martin DB9, Bentley Continental GTC, Ferrari F430, Porsche GT3, and last but by no means least a rare Pagani Zonda F Roadster – one of only 25 in the world, handmade in Italy, and worth around £600,000.
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
March may be a long winter away, but the “race” to “track” down a personalised 08 registration will get underway this month with DVLA Personalised Registrations releasing its next number series to view from Monday November 12.
The timing gives potential buyers the opportunity to peruse the DVLA Personalised Registrations website and tailor their own combination of numbers and letters from the millions available - and see what they look like on a car or motorbike of their choice - before they go on sale on Tuesday December 4.
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
A consortium of British companies, led by motorsport specialist Prodrive, is developing a new DC-DC converter for use in automotive hybrid and electric vehicles, which will be more efficient, smaller and lower cost than those currently available.
The project, part funded by the Technology Strategy Board under the technology programme (5th call - electrical/electronic control & power systems) will pool expertise from companies including Prodrive, HILTech Developments, International Transformers, LDV, Sloan Electronics and the Universities of Manchester and Newcastle. (more…)
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
There has been a marked rise in the popularity of used diesel-powered superminis over recent months, with price premiums over equivalent petrol models more than doubling on certain vehicles since last year.
According to EurotaxGlass’s, publisher of trade ‘bible’ Glass’s Guide to Used Car Values, two- and three-year old examples of best-selling superminis such as the Ford Fiesta and Peugeot 206 equipped with low-capacity diesel engines have seen their price premiums increase from around £200 last year up to £500 now.
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