http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/shared/handlers/rsshandler.ashx?N=692+4294750344&Ns=P_Publication_Date|1CAR Online | Blogs | Tech RSS Feed(c) 2013, Bauer Media. All rights reserved.30You’ll find a plethora of new car verdicts tucked away in the reviews section of CAR’s website, but (unsurprisingly) very few appraisals of a car from the back seat only. After all, a car would have to be a more...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/Jaguars-122k-XJ-Ultimate---a-guided-tour/Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:00:00 GMTBlogsIn an effort to get the next generation of budding automotive engineers excited about economical cars, Goodwood motor racing circuit will once again play host to the Greenpower Finals next month. The event centres on a race between school teams...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/Greenpower-Nationals-2012-the-3000mpg-Goodwood-race/Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:00:00 GMTBlogsAfter more than 100 years of electric car dross, at last there’s a good one. The BMW i3, likely to go on sale late next year, is the first intelligently conceived electric car I have experienced. Rather than just a...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Gavin-Green-on-the-worlds-first-good-electric-car/Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:24:00 GMTBlogsThere are no 200mph-plus hybrid supercars on sale and then suddenly, like London buses, four come along all at once. The new Ferrari Enzo F150, mega McLaren P12, Porsche 918 Spyder and Jaguar C-X75 will all likely compete in the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Gavin-Green-gets-the-inside-story-on-Jaguars-new-C-X75-supercar/Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:37:00 GMTBlogsEver wondered why the speedometers in modern cars have such high readings stretching way beyond the car's actual top speed? I do on a nearly daily basis - and in fact have blogged on this before. It's incredibly frustrating when...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Why-does-your-speedo-go-so-much-faster-than-your-car/Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:17:00 GMTBlogsIs VW’s recently announced MQB (Modular Transverse Matrix) a new idea or old hat? Starting with the new VW Golf Mk7 arriving in the UK in spring 2012, the idea heralds a return to basic principles of mass production in...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Jesse-Crosse/Tomorrows-world-Volkswagens-new-MQB-platform-tech-explained/Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:12:00 GMTBlogsThe new January 2012 issue of CAR Magazine has a free 32-page Green CAR supplment with it - and in it we chronicle how one Lincolnshire village runs a Ford Transit Connect on... sunshine. Long Sutton has what is claimed...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Greg-Fountain-Blog/The-green-car-county/Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:21:00 GMTBlogsFerrari recently passed a quiet milestone that's bound to upset traditionalists: Maranello no longer offers Brits the choice of a manual transmission in its supercars. Those wonderful, exposed metal gates with polished gearsticks click-clacking from cog to cog are no...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Ferrari-click-clack-manual-transmissions-RIP/Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:30:00 GMTBlogsHonda has unveiled the new 2012 edition of the Asimo humanoid robot. And this one can move around without being controlled by an operator, says Honda. So Honda Asimo will soon be running the world? Don't mock. We worry that...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Honda-unveils-the-new-2012-Asimo-robot/Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:42:00 GMTBlogsIf you’ve seen the latest September 2011 issue of CAR Magazine, you might have noticed a news story about diesel particulate filters, and how a failing one could land you with a £1500 repair bill that isn’t covered by any...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Chris-Chilton-Blog/Are-diesel-particulate-filters-more-trouble-than-theyre-worth/Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:50:00 GMTBlogsYou might be more used to sitting on porcelain in the smallest room in the house and wrapping yourself in a cashmere scarf - but these expensive materials are making their way into the car world. A couple of recent...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Expensive-lavish-materials-the-new-luxury-touch/Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:34:00 GMTBlogsThis is the Thrustmaster T 500 RS, a £500 professional-grade wheel and pedal set for the Playstation 3 and the officially-licensed wheel for the Gran Turismo 5 game. Can any gaming console peripheral be worth that much money? We take...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Dan-Thornton-Blog/Thrustmaster-T500-RS-2011-CAR-review/Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:50:00 GMTBlogsDrove the new Honda CR-Z hybrid coupe this week – and it knocked my socks off. Every year I reckon two or three cars come along and surprise me. The cars that deliver the greatest shock are often those when...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Hondas-CR-Z-the-first-hybrid-with-sports-appeal/Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:21:00 GMTBlogsBored 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...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Sarah-Jayne-Harrison-Blog/Update-your-facebook-on-the-go-with-Onstar-in-car-technology/Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:45:00 GMTBlogsThink you know what makes a car tick? I thought I did. Now I’m no engineer or even a particularly gifted mechanic, but I’ve stripped cars to naked shells, rebuilt engines from the bare block up, changed clutches, swapped head...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Chris-Chilton-Blog/Why-weve-all-got-to-retrain-for-the-electric-revolution/Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:37:00 GMTBlogsThe 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...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Sarah-Jayne-Harrison-Blog/Bloodhound-SSC-animation-video/Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:10:00 GMTBlogsSo, you’re lucky to head home for the night in Audi’s new A8, and set about trying to impress your girlfriend with its multitude of gadgets. Our car had everything from heated and cooled seats, night vision with pedestrian recognition,...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Pulman-Blog2/Learning-to-draw-in-the-Audi-A8/Thu, 27 May 2010 11:15:00 GMTBlogsEver wondered just how powerful smartphones are? Or how they could be integrated into your car? OnStar in the US is working with Google on new Android smartphone apps that are claimed to work seamlessly in the new Chevrolet Volt...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Sarah-Jayne-Harrison-Blog/OnStar-and-google-work-together/Thu, 20 May 2010 13:21:00 GMTBlogsDrove the new Jaguar XJ for the first time the other day: a 3.0-litre diesel long-wheelbase model that struck a chord with me for two reasons. One, I'd written the preview piece for CAR Magazine and had followed its genesis...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Jaguar-XJ-and-speccing-your-car-at-the-App-store/Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:43:00 GMTBlogsSo, Toyota has added the Prius to its lengthy list of cars to recall, but it’s not – as has so far been the case – an accelerator issue. No, the Prius is being recalled due to a problem with...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Barry-Blog/Late-breaking-in-the-the-Prius-/Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:30:00 GMTBlogsFront page news in The Times, lead item on the BBC Nine O’Clock TV news, wake-up to it on the Today programme. A car story hasn’t received this much publicity since Top Gear’s Richard Hammond almost killed himself trying to...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/What-the-Toyota-recall-means-by-Gavin-Green/Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:00:00 GMTBlogsBuzz. Hype. Spin. Religious zeal. Computer firm Apple has it all – and today the evangelical marketing machine is in overdrive, as founder Steve Jobs prepares to unveil a new product, widely tipped to be Apple's tablet computer, in San...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/The-car-industry-would-die-for-Apple-fervour/Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:35:00 GMTBlogsWe don’t often get heavy snow in this country, but when we do I find myself longing for one thing in a car, and it isn’t four-by-four; it’s a manual gearbox. Another bout of snow hit CAR HQ yesterday, and...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Barry-Blog/Why-manual-cars-rule-in-the-snow/Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:30:00 GMTBlogsThe fourth member of the impressive E-class family is the world’s first convertible designed as much for snowy Detroit as sunny St Tropez. Two ingenious bits of simple all-weather tech – namely, a deflector on top of the windscreen that...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/In-detail-Gavin-Green-on-the-new-E-class-Cabriolet/Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:22:00 GMTBlogsAll these supposed eco-cars with their start/stop systems are driving me nuts. They just don’t do what they’re claimed to do. It seems simple enough in concept: you roll to a halt, pop it into neutral and the engine cuts...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Glen-Waddington-blog/Eco-blog/Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:55:00 GMTBlogsIt’s probably the same every British winter, but the one we’re in the middle of now has been like watching a live Coldplay concert on loop – a perpetual festival of dreariness. Driving 70 miles to work and then back...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Stephen-Worthy-Blog/Is-it-time-for-UK-compulsory-headlight-laws/Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:11:00 GMTBlogsWorking from home as I write this. Woke, like much of the country, to a white-out. No problem, I was sensible enough to park the Toyota Prius on the main road last night. Here’s a picture of it, under its...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Glen-Waddington-blog/Idiot-Prius-/Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:41:00 GMTBlogsToyota has let CAR inside its astonishing, $15m driving simulator, designed to research safer driving. You drive an actual Lexus LS460 around a virtual cityscape projected within a 7.1m-wide dome, which itself charges across an area the size of four...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Phil-McNamara-Blog/Inside-Toyotas-15m-driving-simulator/Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:59:00 GMTBlogsJust driven the new Vauxhall Astra for the first time – really liked it. Ours was the 1.4 turbo, which I found to be very well built, stylish and a satisfying drive: nice steering, a well damped ride and a...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Vauxhalls-Astra-good-whopping-blindspot-bad/Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:29:00 GMTBlogsThe new Jay Leno show is underway in the US and while it promises to be chockfull of comedy and the usual features that made Leno famous in the previous Late Night show, it also features a 1100ft practice track...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Sarah-Jayne-Harrison-Blog/The-Green-car-challenge---Jay-Leno-show/Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:47:00 GMTBlogsDo you ever text and drive? I watched a new viral video doing the rounds today that’ll ensure I never again even consider using my phone in the car. It’s not for the fainthearted. They previewed this video on breakfast...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Sarah-Jayne-Harrison-Blog/Texting-whilst-driving/Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:26:00 GMTBlogsGordon Brown can’t drive and there’s nothing wrong with that. But there’s plenty wrong with him preaching what sort of car we should drive. By 2020, says our prime minister, all new cars sold in Britain should be electric or...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Electric-Gordon/Mon, 04 May 2009 10:00:00 GMTBlogsI love good small cars. A small, light, inexpensive car is the ultimate expression of the car engineer’s art. Just as the easiest car in the world to engineer is a Rolls-Royce because there are so few compromises and cost...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Why-Toyotas-iQ-doesnt-live-up-to-the-hype/Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:28:00 GMTBlogsI was recently given a sneak peek at Renault’s engineers’ crystal ball – affording me a glimpse into a new, downsized and lower-carbon future. And believe me, we will indeed be driving shrunken, smaller petrol and diesel engines – and...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/The-future-of-engines-why-were-all-downsizing/Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:53:00 GMTBlogsWe solved an unusual CAR spy photo problem earlier today. A few weeks back forum regular Petrolheadinrussia passed us some shots of a strange new car tyre on test on an Audi A4. Instead of rubber sidewalls, these boots had...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/How-Nasas-new-lunar-tyres-solved-a-CAR-scoop/Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:45:00 GMTBlogsThe chairman of General Motors, Rick Wagoner, once told me – over a Starbucks cappuccino and bran muffin in his office in Detroit – that his worst managerial mistake was to kill the EV1 electric car. ‘It didn’t affect profitability...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Why-the-American-car-market-should-adopt-diesel-By-Gavin-Green-160109/Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:48:00 GMTBlogsI recently spent time with Saab’s bioethanol experts – and it got me thinking. Are they heading down a dead-end with their E85-fuelled vehicles? Or are they right to persist with biofuels, even if public perception swung dramatically in 2008?...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Sarah-Jayne-Harrison-Blog/How-do-biofuels-perform-on-the-road/Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:27:00 GMTBlogsMost car cabins have a profusion of buttons, knobs, switches, dials, stalks, toggles, levers and controls, proffering a choice in adjusting everything from car temperature to car temperament. Do we know what they’re all for? Do we care? Do they...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Gavin-Green-Blog/Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:00:00 GMTBlogsI’ve developed a thing about gadgety headlamps recently. I’ve blogged before on mynew rural existence and how I’ve seen the light: bi-xenons, twisting beams, multi-beam lights like Mercedes’ that assault the dark depending on the road circumstances. I love them...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Why-I-love-gadgety-headlamps-by-Tim-Pollard/Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:27:00 GMTBlogsAmazing how one little thing can mess up a good car. I always liked the Lotus Esprit. But when I discovered it had Morris Marina door handles (so did the first Range Rover) that warm supercar glow became just a...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/How-paddles-ruined-the-Porsche-911-By-Gavin-Green/Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:34:00 GMTBlogsAs our cars become more like hermetically sealed containers, and less like social-minded carriages, so road rage and dreadful driving and tarmac terror increase. Air conditioning, I suspect, is partly to blame (and let’s face, most new cars today have...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Air-con-causes-road-rage-says-Gavin-Green/Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:26:00 GMTBlogsLudwig Mies van der Rohe, the great German-American architect and designer, was famously known for his ‘less is more’ style. His minimalist philosophy works for me. But sometimes less is not better. Take a five-seat car redesigned to seat four...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Why-less-isnt-always-more-by-Gavin-Green/Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:03:00 GMTBlogsNews that there will be more recharging points dotted around London in the expectation of a boom in electric cars is, in theory, welcome. For once, a government or council is partly financing our fuel rather than taxing it. I...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Shocking-Safety/Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:59:00 GMTBlogsI’ve never liked the Vauxhall VXR's gear knob. Too short, anatomically plain weird, and finished with hefty stitching so coarse it can scrape your skin off. I’ve just never understood who thought this was a good idea. CAR’s Chris Chilton...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Adam-Towler-Blog/Are-you-VXR-enough/Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:53:00 GMTBlogsJust as the Greenham Common women did not get rid of cruise missiles in Britain, so eco agitators have played no significant part in persuading America’s masses to go green. But just as one is now history, so the other...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Time-up-for-trucks/Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:11:00 GMTBlogsGavin Green blogs on why Gordon Brown's carbon tax system is wrong, and offers a simple, honest solution that is probably far too straightforward to ever be adopted. If Gordon Brown really is the honest tell-it-as-it-is politician he pretends to be, he...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Why-a-Ferrari-can-be-greener-than-a-Fiat/Fri, 02 May 2008 15:12:00 GMTBlogsIs the Congestion Charge fixing all London's problems? Far from it, says Gavin Green The focus of the original 2003 London Congestion Charge was sharp, never mind that it bludgeoned millions of motorists like a giant tax-collecting mallet. London traffic...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Why-city-tolls-make-London-traffic-worse/Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:12:00 GMTBlogsTim Pollard is fed up with wildly excessive speedo readings. Here's why It was a few miles into my drive of Audi's slinky new A5 3.0 TDI when I noticed it. The oh-so-cool, Germanically precise speedometer read to an absurd...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/My-speedos-bigger-than-your-speedo/Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:51:00 GMTBlogsBen Pulman wonders how sincere some car makers' eco efforts are... I recently sat down to watch Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. While I fell asleep by the end of it – due to tiredness, not boredom I should add...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Pulman-Blog2/A-CO2-obsession/Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:55:00 GMTBlogsMobile phones are one of many distractions behind the wheel, finds Ben Oliver Just did a radio interview, by mobile phone, on the dangers of using a mobile phone while driving. When the call from the studio came through I...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Oliver-Blog2/Driven-to-distraction/Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:03:00 GMTBlogs