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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

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 ...

Nissan Juke R takes to the track on video

Rated 3 out of 53

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 09 December 2011 15:46

The road-legal Nissan Juke R may never be built, but today Nissan showed off its the GT-R-powered Juke performing on track.  It's a madcap one-off Juke pepped up with the GT-R's 523bhp 3.8-litre twin-turbo V6. The video below was recorded at the MIRA track in Warwickshire, as engineers had a chance to fine-tune the chassis. Brilliant! When can I buy a Juke-R? Hold your ...

Renault Wind 1.6 Dynamique (2011) long-term test review

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 29 July 2011 13:00

Time to say goodbye The Wind blew in on the 28 December 2010 and has just recently blown away again. It was a long visit, which turned out to be a good thing as a convertible arriving in December is not the best time of year to fully test it's main selling point, however the Wind was still with us ...

British Grand Prix 2011: Button and Hamilton's video guide

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 07 July 2011 09:30

Where will you be Sunday lunchtime? Anyone who's even remotely interested in Formula One will be in front of the TV getting psyched up as 12 F1 teams take to the world’s fastest circuit.  Yes, 15 weeks in and 22 of the finest F1 drivers will be lining the grid, thinking about how they will tackle Abbey, the first right-hand ...

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011 preview

Rated 3 out of 53

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 30 June 2011 09:21

News | Drivers | Cars | Entertainment | Live coverage Festival of Speed news Welcome to CAR Online's page for Goodwood Festival of Speed news, leading up to the 2011 event on 30 June - 03 July. Newest items appear at the top of the page. [If you're heading to Goodwood this weekend, make sure you stop by the CAR stand and pick up your ...

Tomorrow's world: the touchscreen steering wheel

Rated 3 out of 53

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 13 June 2011 11:02

You might think the steering wheel has done a pretty good job of directing cars for the past century. But now a team of researchers from the University of Stuttgart is attempting to reinvent the wheel. The scientists have come up with a touchscreen steering wheel, which they reckon could replace the humble wheel with stereo and cruise controls. What's the ...

Bluebird electric car guns for new EV speed record

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 08 June 2011 10:13

The grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell is continuing his quest for land speed records - with a new attempt to set the electric car v-max. Don Wales has announced he will attempt a world speed record of 500mph in an electric car in 2013. 500mph? In an EV? He won't be driving a Leaf then!  Wales will be driving the Bluebird electric car that set an earlier ...

17,000 solar panels to power Toyota’s Derbyshire plant

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 06 June 2011 10:24

Toyota’s manufacturing plant at Burnaston in Derbyshire, where the Auris and Avensis are built, will install the biggest solar panel system yet seen in a UK car plant.  British Gas, which will stump up the £10 million cost of installing the solar panels, and Toyota are working together to save 2000 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. Once the solar ...

Kia Soul facelift (2011) first official pictures

Rated 2.5 out of 52.5

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 21 April 2011 16:00

Kia picked the 2011 New York auto show to real the facelifted Kia Soul. As well as packing some visual scrub-ups, there's a bit of new tech too. The 2011 facelifted Kia Soul matches a six-speed manual transmission to a 1.6-litre direct-injection engine. In the capacity-obsessed US there's a 2.0-litre four-cylinder but we won't get that. So what about the new Kia Soul's fuel economy figures? The ...

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