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...
Living with a Leaf – Week 3
Its week three of driving an electric car and its time to venture a little further afield writes Geraldine Herbert According to Nissan you can do 250 kms between charge but my own experience up to now had been quite different if you use the heated seats and air con pretty much like you normally would it depletes rapidly. Battery kilometres, it seems are significantly shorter than real kilometres. Many mornings setting off on what is...
Eight things to know about the 2017 Volkswagen Golf
Volkswagen has revealed details about the latest version of its Golf due here early next year writes Geraldine Herbert 1) As with most new Golfs you will struggle to spot the difference from the outside but changes include new bumpers and front wings plus LED taillights across the range. 2) There is a new petrol engine under the bonnet a 1.5 TSI that promises to be super efficient 3) A seven-speed...
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