Peugeot 2008 GT 1.5 BlueHDi 110

First Report The compact SUV remains flavour of the month with this segment continuing to grown at quite a pace. Gone are the days of humdrum hatchbacks, if you want to be ‘on trend’ in today’s Instagram filtered world, you need one of these on your driveway. Preconceptions aside, the notion of a compact SUV, […]

Laser Tools Telescopic Support

Laser Tools has launched an ingenious telescopic bonnet and tailgate support strut, with applications for repairs where gas struts are faulty or need to be removed. It could also be used during restoration projects, as an alternative to a car’s standard bonnet support or in competition cars where they’ve been removed for lightness. Extending between […]

Skoda Octavia vRS 2.0 TDI

Well hello there game changer – the sportiest set of wheels to be found in the Our Cars pages of Diesel Car & Eco Car, currently. We’ve switched from the modest cabbie’s favourite up to the full fat choice of the UK constabularies and got ourselves an Octavia vRS, Skoda’s take on a Golf GTI […]

Critical EV raw materials

Most readers will be aware of the current shortage of what we’ll call “computer chips” that are used today in all sorts of technological areas, but critically in car manufacturing. Compared with only a decade ago, most cars contain ten times as many such chips today, many of them involved in safety systems, communications, and […]

Our moaner-in-chief on the car launch circus

Before I became a car hack, I had some rosy fantasies about what the job would be like. From the international travel to driving the cars themselves, motoring journalism seemed impossibly exotic, and I remember boring on to my dad about what a fabulous way to earn a living it must be. With great kindness […]

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