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The Goodwood Festival of Speed

The new Vauxhall Astra GTC will be making its special debut at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed, two months before the official world premiere at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The announcement came after it was said that the order books have opened for UK customers for the Vauxhall Astra GTC, which was first previewed […]

New Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion

Volkswagen has announced that the new Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion and the new VW Passat Estate BlueMotion models will be ready for order imminently with deliveries starting towards the end of July 2011. The BlueMotion Passat features a modified 1.6 litre common rail TDI engine producing 105PS with a six speed manual gearbox. The Volkswagen Passat […]

BMW dealers tasked with going green

New BMW 3 Series dealerships are involved in this initiative and will have to play their part in the bigger green programme. The team were tasked with costing up increasing insulation and changing light bulbs to the most energy efficient types, as well as installing photovoltaic solar panels on the roofs, groundwater heat pumps, wind […]

Range Rover Evoque prices and specs announced

Land Rover Range Rover’s first compact Crossover SUV vehicle, the Evoque, will go on sale in the UK from September this year. it will be the first Land Rover model to be available with 2 wheel drive as well as the conventional 4 wheel drive. The Evoque sits under the Range Rover and will be […]

Audi Security systems are top of class

The British Insurance Vehicle Security Awards were created to raise awareness of best practice in vehicle security. Cars are graded according to the New Vehicle Security Rating Scheme (NVSR), with points awarded under the categories of ‘theft of’ and ‘theft from’ the vehicle. The winners are the makes and models achieving the highest score in […]