My Car of the Year
From muscle cars to electric cars 2016 was a bumper year so choosing my Car of the Year is not an easy task and several great cars have been left off my list writes Geraldine Herbert High on my list is the new Mercedes E-Class. It oozes style, sophistication and luxury and is crammed with new technology. While the look has changed very little it has finally emerged from the shadows of it’s talented siblings and delivers the very best...
Nine Things I Learned Driving a Nissan Leaf for 4 weeks
To find out if I could successfully adapt to the plug-in lifestyle I spend four weeks Living with a Nissan Leaf writes Geraldine Herbert and discovered quite a bit along the way 1) Charging is easier than you might think. Instantly living with a Leaf adds a new dimension to my evening – plugging in my Leaf. It takes over night to charge but by the end of week the Nissan Leaf and I are in a nice little routine. 2) The range on many...
The Challenges of Keeping an old car on the Road
How hard is it to tax, insure and maintain an old car asks Geraldine Herbert Late last year two insurance companies Aviva and Allianz Insurance announced that will no longer be insuring older cars. By older they mean anything 15 years or over and while they assured existing customers who own cars that exceed these limits they would continue to insurance them, they would not however be accepting new customers. In May 2000 I bought my...
2016 Women’s World Car Of The Year – Winners
Women motoring writers have their say! Voting is complete to find out the 2016 Women’s World Car of the Year writes Geraldine Herbert The Supreme Winner of the 2016 Women’s World Car of the Year is: Jaguar F-PACE Judges vote initially for the car of their choice in six different categories. The Jaguar F-PACE won the SUV/Crossover category from six other contenders. Judges then voted again from the list of six category...
Nine things to know about the Jaguar I-Pace concept car
Jaguar sets its sights on Tesla’s Model X with the new I-Pace writes Geraldine Herbert Revealed at the LA Motor Show, the I-Pace is Jaguar’s first all electric car. With two electric motors, 400bhp and 700Nms of pure pulling power this electric SUV reassuringly has four-wheel drive. It is also no slouch and goes 0 – 100 km/h in just 4.0 seconds and promises to go 500kms on a single charge. The production version will...
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