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Trinity Mirror Regionals Driving Force columnist STEVE ORME gives his take on everything from the car with the biggest cup holders (Ford Edge, 20oz) to congestion charges and how your money is spent getting toads safely across the road. It's motoring but not as you know it ...

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April 2008 Archives

Your licence details online

Posted by Steve Orme on April 28, 2008 3:37 PM

Right, happy Monday, or not as it is going to turn out when you read this.

Eight legs good, two legs bad - cost of petrol is no secret

Posted by Steve Orme on April 25, 2008 11:35 AM

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Squeeze goes on drivers


Such are the wonders of the deep, we will never really know them all. Perhaps the eternal search for free fuel would be ended if we new more about what lies beneath. I mean, that Mario Andretti trench is well deep.

Continental capers from the DfT

Posted by Steve Orme on April 23, 2008 2:53 PM

A couple of weeks ago someone with nothing to ban in the Department for Transportation of motorists came up with the wheeze of reducing the drink-drive limit to 50mg, “as it is on the continent.”

Kia hit by e-mail scam

Posted by Steve Orme on April 22, 2008 8:57 AM


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Kia Sportage


Kia has issued a warning on an e-mail scam hiding behind the brand.

Standing up for Queen and country

Posted by Steve Orme on April 21, 2008 3:06 PM

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Happy birthday, your majesty. Only one problem, the BBC 8am news.

Petrol prices predicted to hit £1.50 a litre by September

Posted by Steve Orme on April 18, 2008 12:04 PM

Got much planned for the weekend? Me? Oh, might finish building the front steps, out to eat with four friends on Saturday. May look at a used Shogun on Sunday, 56k miles, £1,800. If I knock them down there’s a quick £200 to be made.

Manufacturers making environmental progress. Tell your mate dave

Posted by Steve Orme on April 17, 2008 11:57 AM

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Save the planet - put your clothes back on

Speaking yesterday at the Living in a Low Carbon World 2008
conference, SMMT chief executive Paul Everitt highlighted the steady progress
made by industry to reduce carbon emissions. Latest figures show that the
average UK new car CO2 in the first quarter of 2008 was 161.4g/km, which is a
3.5g/km or 2.1% improvement on the 2007 full year average.

BBC Watchdog and the Ford Focus instrument cluster

Posted by Steve Orme on April 15, 2008 10:13 AM

No doubt all of you who responded to our Ford Focus instrument cluster appeal will have either been riveted to Watchdog on the BBC last night or are lamenting missing it.

Wear your badge with pride- even if it's a Skoda

Posted by Steve Orme on April 13, 2008 10:31 AM

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The new badge

What’s in a badge? More than a happy car owner like yourself may realise until you come to sell up.

Now Daihatsu offers five-year warranty - time for better value all round

Posted by Steve Orme on April 12, 2008 10:09 AM


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I’m not dragging my sorry bottom around the internet just to give you the effluvia of press release spin but...

Global cooling - it's the new global warming

Posted by Steve Orme on April 10, 2008 3:45 PM

Right, get your heads around this one. The next big danger is global cooling. Yep. This is a result of global warming.

Beefy Jeep Patriot road test

Posted by Steve Orme on April 9, 2008 2:47 PM

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BE afraid, be very afraid if you are remotely guilty of contributing to mother Earth’s fevered brow.
The Carbonfinder General is hunting down everything from cruise ships to patio heaters, seeking out with the cruel spike of taxation those heretics who reject Lord Cromwell’s exciting congestion charge initiatives.

Support your local car dealer- even the Government might join you

Posted by Steve Orme on April 8, 2008 2:42 PM

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Shriti Vadera

Support your local car dealer. No, really, it may not be as emotive as the death of a rural post office but the industry is up against the wall. And there are plenty of swivel-eyes who would like to see the trigger pulled.

Lost in space, the new BMW SUV that's not an SUV

Posted by Steve Orme on April 7, 2008 1:55 PM

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This is probably not the best time for me to be writing about BMW. You don’t want to know why. Okay you do, then.

Motor Show 2008 site

Posted by Steve Orme on April 5, 2008 3:11 PM

Months before the British International Motor Show opens at ExCeL in
London (public days from 23 July to 3 August), a sneak preview of the
exhibition’s main attractions is already available online.

Utilities dig 2.5 million road trenches worth of congestion

Posted by Steve Orme on April 3, 2008 12:58 PM

Following on from yesterday’s potholists feature, today we look at trench fever.
The RAC says it’s time for action over the huge number of holes in the road that overrun their allotted lifespan, utilities companies being so efficient and all that.