By the time that you’re reading this, it will be nearing mid-winter, officially the 21st December, and the days will start getting longer. Hurrah! But it doesn’t tell half the story. As we well know, the worst of the winter weather inevitably comes after Christmas, in January and February. Taking Heathrow as an example, in […]
From time to time we have considered the aspects of doing ìThe Extra Mileî from the perspective of hybrid and electric cars, and it’s time to update the picture. Plug-in hybrids have become more plentiful and, if we are truly economy-minded and not blinkered by diesel power, we should look at the potential appeal of […]
It’s quite an eye-opener to dig back into the archives and read a vintage copy of Diesel Car, in this case the December 1991 edition, and see the real world of diesel motoring as it then was. Diesel’s UK market share had just then cracked ten per cent, with sales dominated by the diesel pioneers […]
With the current anti-diesel atmosphere, it’s too easy to get carried away with some of the claimed fuel economy figures for many of the latest turbocharged petrol cars and forget that you won’t, in reality, achieve anywhere near those on-paper figures. In fact, you may well get less than you might even reasonably expect, because […]
We often refer on this page to the relatively poor fuel economy of a cold engine, mainly in terms of reduced combustion efficiency, not to mention the significantly higher emissions produced by a cold engine. A significant amount of energy and fuel is used to bring engine components, the transmission, and fluids like engine coolant […]
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