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Driving the Route Napoleon in historic Vauxhalls

Driving the Route Napoleon in historic Vauxhalls

Rated 4 out of 54

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 19 March 2012 09:00

Recipe for epic road trip: take four decades worth of Vauxhalls, from the legendary Droopsnoot Firenza to the latest Insignia, add Europe’s most awesome driving road (the Route Napoleon) and set yourself for the 200-mile trip from Cannes to Grenoble. That was our task. What a weekend! Napoleon gave his name to the route – courtesy of his flight from ...

Download CAR wallpapers for your new Facebook page

Download CAR wallpapers for your new Facebook page

Rated 2.5 out of 52.5

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 10 February 2012 14:04

In the near future Facebook will introduce a new profile page layout for all users. Included in their new update will be the addition of cover images where you can personalise your page – and this is where CAR may be able to help.  We've taken a selection of fantastic images and tailored them to fit at the top of ...

Can we drive to Austria on one tank?

Can we drive to Austria on one tank?

Rated 3 out of 53

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 13 April 2011 10:50

It seemed like an innocuous enough challenge. Volvo asked us to drive to Austria on one tank of fuel in its new Volvo S60 DRIVe. That's 840 miles, from Marlow, Buckinghamshire to Mayrhofen in Austria for the seventh annual Snowbombing festival. Game on! Snowbombing is a skiing/boarding and music festival, featuring a fresh line-up of DJs, bands and various other acts each year. Volvo ...

Speed awareness courses: do they work?

Speed awareness courses: do they work?

Rated 3 out of 53

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 25 November 2010 13:39

Speed awareness courses are being offered by a growing number of counties in England. I should know: I’ve just been on one this morning. I took part in one that’s been run by the local Cambridgeshire and Peterborough councils for the past six years. Mine was a typical story: I was once again late on my way to work, it ...

Racetrack driveway revealed by Google Earth

Racetrack driveway revealed by Google Earth

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 17 September 2010 12:23

Google earth reveals many things, but this has to be by far the best. A racetrack driveway. One car nut has converted what could potentially be a long boring driveway into a, complete with FIA curbs, racetrack instead.  What better way to relieve any stress after a hard days work than taking in a few laps before you head to ...

Facebook in your car: friend or foe?

Facebook in your car: friend or foe?

Rated 4 out of 54

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 16 September 2010 12:45

Bored with concentrating on the road while driving? Frustrated by having to do mundane things like steer and brake when you really want to be updating your Facebook page? Here’s the answer – new in-car technology from Onstar which takes the obsession with social networking to an absurd new level. Using voice-recognition, the system allows you to update your own status ...

Ken Block Gymkhana Three , part 2 video

Ken Block Gymkhana Three , part 2 video

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 15 September 2010 10:54

Ken Block's drift skill Gymkhana videos, previously performed in the Subaru WRX STi, took Youtube by storm fetching millions of viewers. His latest instalment sees the same action coupled with some eye-popping new stunts, but this time in his new steed, the rally-spec Ford Fiesta. Ever the Duke of Drift, Ken Block displays his talents at the l'Autodrome de Linas ...

Bloodhound SSC video: see the 1000mph car in action

Bloodhound SSC video: see the 1000mph car in action

Rated 4 out of 54

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 03 August 2010 17:10

The Bloodhound SSC project team have recently shown a lifesize version of the car at the Farnborough airshow 2010 - and now they've released an animation video showing us more details of the potential record breaker due for launch in 2012. Fitted with the Eurofighter Typhoon engine, the Bloodhound is designed to snatch the previous landspeed record held by the Thrust SSC. Where the Thrust hit ...

Star Wars TomTom and the craze for novelty sat-navs

Star Wars TomTom and the craze for novelty sat-navs

Rated 3 out of 53

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 09 July 2010 14:45

May the force be with you, or at least Yoda, Darth Vader and C-3PO. The Star Wars clan are now available on your TomTom to direct you. Darth Vader will take you to the Dark Side, C-3PO can witter away to dispense annoying road trip advice and Yoda will probably take you backwards. Why am I blogging about this? Novelty ...

My track ride in an Evora with an F1 driver

My track ride in an Evora with an F1 driver

Rated 4 out of 54

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 23 June 2010 13:44

A passenger ride in a Lotus Evora with Heikki Kovalainen as the driver? Yes please! An invite to the Lotus festival was already looking pretty enticing what with every lotus F1 from 1958 to 1994, being in one place for the first time ever. On arrival to Snetterton race track in the morning, I spotted Kovalainen in the queue next to ...

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