My lawnmower broke down the other week. The motor was turning but the rotary blade wasn’t. I tried to take it apart to fix it but got beaten by a crosshead screw which was stuck fast and worn too much to be able to turn. I had to borrow my neighbour’s mower in the end. [...]

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The cost of fuel is uppermost in every motorist’s mind at the moment. The price seems to just keep rising and there must be a point at which some people can simply no longer afford to run their cars.

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It’s that time of year when those of us who suffer with hay fever start to, well, suffer. If you are one of the 8-10 million hay fever sufferers in the UK you won’t need to be told by me that sneezing and itchy eyes are liable to affect your ability to drive safely.

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I suppose after all the problems that car manufacturer Toyota has been suffering these past few months, it’s only fair to allow it to blow its own trumpet on the few occasions when it still can.

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All the current talk about alternative fuels seems to centre around hybrid technology, electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells. Yet one of the most prevalent and easily accessible alternatives is often ignored. I’m talking about Liquid Propane Gas, or LPG, which is marketed by Calor under the name of Autogas in the UK.

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It was Jeremy Clarkson who said: “If I can liken the whole global car industry to the human body, Toyota is the brain, Aston Martin is the face, Cadillac is the stomach and Alfa Romeo is the heart and soul.”
I’m not sure I’d actually agree with him on the first three, especially as his nomination [...]

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Car manufacturers go to great lengths to publicise their products. They emphasise the new technology they have embraced, the environmentally-friendly nature of their latest creations, how low their CO2 emissions are and how economic they are to drive, or else they promote the sporty nature of the beast, how fast it will go and how [...]

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A friend of mine came up with an interesting point the other day, and one which I hadn’t considered before – how do you provide heating in an electric car?

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The public’s general perception of electric cars is that they are slow, unattractive and of limited range. Now a new project intends to prove that wrong by taking a 118mph electric sportscar the length of the longest road on the planet - the 16,000 mile Pan-American Highway.

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We’re all obsessed with speed in some form or the other, whether through a desire to want to go faster and arrive at our destination quicker or because of a concern that traffic should be slowed down for safety reasons.

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