It’s a challenging time for diesel owners, assaulted regularly as we are in the media, and by the medical experts, for the noxious gases that our engines emit, and threatened with exclusion from city centres, or with heavy charges whenever we might need to enter them. So there is undeniable pressure to consider alternative power […]
Let’s take something of a drive into the future, and consider the principle of economy driving when cars have become electric, and potentially fully autonomous. Maybe general attitudes will be that electric cars are very efficient and economical, and the energy they use so cheap, that saving fuel won’t really be considered relevant. Range and […]
Let’s look at one of the fundamental issues of car buying, manual or automatic? Most of us know about using the right gear for the right speed, but it’s not quite as simple as that, as it also depends on the power required from the engine in any given situation. Many drivers take a view […]
Overtaking, inevitably, often becomes necessary in normal motoring, and it rarely helps your fuel economy, although there are some situations when it actually can ñ such as when it lets you escape from being stuck behind a driver who stops at every roundabout and slows excessively for every slight bend in the road. But overtaking […]
A reader letter, from Mr P.Walsh, in response to my column on preparing for winter motoring in issue 383, creates the subject matter for this month ñ engine pre-heating. For decades (but alas, no longer) the noble British company of Kenlowe offered British motorists the facility of after-fit 3kW coolant heater units, with pumped coolant circulation, […]
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