The new Discovery 4 has taken home two accolades at the Caravan Club’s Towcar of the Year Awards 2010, which took place at the Royal Automobile Club in London last week. These are the first awarded to the new Discovery 4, which went on-sale in UK dealerships earlier this month.

The Discovery 4 won the ‘Best [...]

Increased output at Ford Bridgend has propelled the Welsh engine plant past its 15 millionth engine milestone.
Vehicle scrappage schemes introduced across Europe powered the facility towards its production landmark early.  The customer incentive programmes – extended this week in the UK – offer a new car discount against old trade ins and have triggered additional [...]

Online advertising spend in the UK has overtaken television ad expenditure for the first time, new research from the PricewaterhouseCoopers and Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has revealed.
Internet advertising spend grew 4.6 per cent to £1.75bn between January and July this year. IAB figures show ad expenditure online was up £82m to record market share of [...]

If you want comfort in your fast car, look elsewhere. The Murcielago LP670-4 SV is the most extreme version of one of the world’s wildest supercars, so cosseting suspension was never likely to be high on the agenda. What you do get is brilliantly controlled movements from the SV, which helps to negate the [...]

Mazda is reporting its best ever sales results through September, thought to be significantly boosted by the car scrappage scheme.
Despite the economic downturn Mazda has continued to increase its market share month on month, and with September volume forecast at 11,135, giving a passenger car market share of 2.9 per cent and a retail market [...]

The C6 introduces a new level of French precision and it feels special despite the faux wood veneers. The leather seats are beautiful things and the Interior reeks with class. It has damped door pockets, ambient lighting and lots of ingenious features. Citroën have suffered with weak electronics and the C6 is dependent upon [...]

Birmingham-based Citroen Motor Contracts has delivered 35 cars through September thanks to high profile exposure.
With deals advertised across the Citroen range of passenger and commercial vehicles, the car leasing company has seen a great levels of enquiries as a result of profiling its deals on the website.
Fantastic deals currently include the Citroen C3 1.4 HDi, [...]

Italian car manufacturer, Alfa Romeo, has improved its user-chooser landscape for company car drivers with the introduction of two brand new engines – a 200 bhp petrol unit and a 170 bhp diesel engine – plus two new trim levels for the head-turning Alfa 159 range.

The result is increased power, greater fuel economy, improved choice, [...]

The BBC is reporting that the UK government is to announce that the car scrappage scheme will be extended beyond the £300m fund set aside by Chancellor Alistair Darling in April.
With new car sale figures struggling through the recession the scheme was brought in to provide a shot in the arm to embattled carmakers, with [...]

Continental was awarded the highest accolade by members of the tyre industry this week (23 September) after being named Manufacturer of the Year 2009 by the NTDA (National Tyre Distributors Association) at the Tyre and Fast Fit (TAFF) Awards.
The company scored a double hit at the event, also taking the Industry Advertising campaign award for [...]