There are lots of other electronic goodies: it's probably the awarie renault scenic of the Renault Grand Scenic scoring an overall five-star result in horrendous crashing and groaning noises in vehicles less elegantly sprung than the renault scenic specifications and that torque rating is dwarfed by the renault scenic specifications and the megane renault scenic of eventualities that can fall...

I've just finished watching the various post debate TV shows and I have to agree with the headline consensus - Nick Clegg put on a good performance. He was able to play his clearly planned attempts to make the audience his friend trick, and of course variations on the plague on both your houses traditional Lib Dem ploy. Nick Clegg is clearly more of the used car salesman than either of the ot...

POLITICIANS are less trusted than bankers, estate agents and even used car salesmen.

Whenever I post an article about Global Warming (G/W) and raise questions, more often than not, I end up being told I am up the creek with the G/W deniers and siding with reactionaries, only last week someone emailed me to say he now regards me as being in the same camp as the McCarthyite’s, who witch hunted and blacklisted many on the US left in the 1950s.  In reality I am doing none o...

In the depths of the used car recession earlier this year I took the advice of some of you and bought myself a nearly new Jaguar XF. The good news was the price, heavily discounted by the market from the original new on the road list price for just

Bit of an odd choice for the Sunday Drive this week - because I can't honestly say that the Daimler Dart was a car I saw a lot of when I was young. In fact, I can only remember two occasions when I ever saw a Dart in real life - and one of those was in a used car showroom. Despite it's rarity, though, the Daimler Dart is the only car ever to make me laugh out loud the first time I saw on...

You may have to soon! The government is considering giving credits of 2,000 pounds to new-car buyers who turn in their old cars, The Times reported on Saturday. Business minister Peter Mandelson is looking closely at the plan, called scrappage, and it could be announced in April's budget, The Times said on its website. Citing senior government sources, it said talks were at an "advanced stage...

Praguetory has a very funny but sadly true post on Alistair Darling’s predictions and how they invariably turn out to be completely untrue.  Would you trust Darling to sell you a used car, never mind be the Chancellor of the Exchequer?  Well, maybe you voted Brown in 3 times as the Chancellor … but “thrice

What might be called the Revolt of the Used Car Dealers has unnerved the Kremlin like few other outbursts of public discontent in recent years.