April 2008 Archives

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

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.

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 Sportage

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The new badge

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

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