Let’s start with the price tag £62,650, a similar price to most other S class’s when they are released, this new luxurious Mercedes is now on the shelves for sale today. The car offers the choice first of all of three engines, the obvious diesel and petrol but also a hybrid petrol engine is available. The new S class offers an increase of 9% power and 18% reduction in CO2 on its previous model, it also as is common place with S-Classes features brand new technology. (more…)
First Load Of Bags Sent Off To St Gemmas
The guys in the office have been busy sorting through their unwanted things to fill up some charity bags for our chosen charity St Gemmas Hospice. We managed to fill a total of 12 bags which we are told on average are worth about £35 per bag to the charity. So the first £420 has been chalked off of the total for this year.
Tracie Harrison from St Gemmas popped in to collect the bags, we assumed she would turn up in a van but no, its was a blue Vauxhall Corsa, which we have now nicknamed the tardis due to its surprising loading capacity.
This is a great start and we are determined to hit our target this year, to keep up to date with how we are doing or to sponsor us, please visit our St Gemmas Page
Time Capsule Cars
50 years old and covered in dust left in nature to rot and deteriorate but never the less these cars are truly classics with a large value. These cars despite being locked in a garage for almost 50 years are young at heart, the dealership Lambrecht’s closed back in 1996 leaving cars sealed inside the buildings walls and got opened last month to reveal some extraordinary classic cars dating back more than 50 years. (more…)
Tyre Warning
TyreSafe, a company that advises on tyre safety as is implied in the name have issued advice to motorists in the UK in regards to tyre tread depth. They have said that due to the consistently wet summers in the UK it’s important to have the adequate tyre tread depth to be able to have good traction on the wet summer roads. The depth of the tread is essential for gripping to wet roads as the pattern is designed to help displace water from the road surface. The stopping distance in wet weather can be double than if the road was dry putting extra emphasis on reliable tyres. (more…)
Car That Calls For Help
The European Commission wants all cars by 2015 to be ready to call an emergency number by themselves if the event of a crash happens and the owner is unable to call for help. Technology these days would make this possible, people crash all the time and many car crashes are fatal, could this new suggested system save lives? In the event of an accident the eCall will automatically send a message to emergency services, the true genius comes in the fact that the system won’t respond to lower impact parking errors such as parking so it wouldn’t waste emergency services time. (more…)
Croatia Celebrates Joining EU
A good day for most Croatians as many took to the street of the capital Zagreb to celebrate there recent “success” in joining the EU. Croatia have become the 28th member of the European Union, this is particularly emotional for most Croatians as it comes just after a brutal war for the fight of independence stretching nearly two decades. The change saw the removal of customs at the borders with Slovenia. (more…)
Speed Limit Increase U-Turn
We reported a few weeks back about the Government being pretty set to change the speed limit from the traditional 70mph and hiking it to 80mph, there seemed to be very little opposition to the change. Now however this has taken an apparent U-Turn with the current transport secretary saying that safety would be compromised. This however was strongly disagreed by Philip Hammond the former transport secretary who believes that the speed limit increase would save millions of pounds due to faster journey times as well as being safer. (more…)
Illegally Issued Traffic Tickets
Over the UK there are thousands of tickets distributed yearly to those who break traffic laws most of which are caught on camera, those large yellow boxes of misery. A new BBC report however shows that between 2011 and 2013 there has been six thousand eight hundred and forty parking tickets illegally issued, how? Unauthorised cameras, some cameras on the road aren’t authorised yet can still result in you getting a fine, the amount totalled for these illegally issued traffic tickets was £350,000 a considerable amount. (more…)
Newcastle Footballer Faces False ID Charges
No one can escape when it comes to traffic offences, Newcastle united star Cheick Tiote is facing charges after several accusations of driving related offences. One of which was a very serious offence of using a false identification document. The 27 year old Newcastle’s star midfielder could see a large fine or a lengthy prison sentence if found guilty which will surely affect his footballing career. (more…)
Aston Martin Luxury Car Revealed
This one’s for the petrol heads out there, the new Aston Martin Vanquish Volante bit of a mouthful if you ask me is the luxury car that Aston Martin have just unveiled. The first fully carbon fibre skinned Volante that the 100 year old history of Aston Martin has ever released. Some of the features are truly fantastic but for the price wow it should be, although I suppose it is a “luxury” car, as a loose term I would refer to it more as a speed demon technical term I know. The car boasts a price tag of £199,995 because the extra £5 to tip it over £200k was obviously a step too far. (more…)