The buzz of buying a car means drivers can't help popping out to take it 'for a quick spin' purely for the thrill of driving it. New research has revealed the extent of this driving phenomenon with 'spinners' in the UK racking up over a billion...
The Volkswagen plant at Setubal in Portugal is to produce a further product, the company announced last month. The VW management board decided the new model would start being built at Autoeuropa during the first half of 2008 in addition to the existing...
Auto sales Ltd launched the all-new Mercedes-Benz S-Class at their showroom in Lija late last month. General manager Mario Xuereb said this was the top model in Malta for Mercedes-Benz. "Since the early 1950s, the S-Class has always been a world...
The Alfa 159 has been awarded the prestigious five-star rating from Euro NCAP, which puts it ahead of the field for its segment where safety is concerned. It is an important achievement, which underlines yet again the great attention that Alfa Romeo...
After the Christmas break and postponements due to bad weather, the 2005/06 National Four-stroke Karting league continued last Sunday at Badger Karting with the sixth race of the season. The introduction of weights this year has proved quite...
A new Website dedicated entirely to the Subaru Impreza has been launched by Subaru (UK) Limited: www.subaru-impreza.co.uk. The new site brings the product to life, with exciting mini movies of the cars in action. It is designed to echo the heavyweight,...
Any Seat customers looking for that sporty image can now consider the new Seat Leon, which was launched on January 19 at the Malta Classic Car Collection private museum in Qawra, as part of the Seat's new generation line-up. Designed by Walter de Silva...
The new BMW 3 Series is the Car of the Year at this year's motoring 'Oscars', the What Car? Awards. The BMW overcame tough competition from 14 other category winners, celebrated at a glittering ceremony in the Grosvenor House Hotel on London's Park...
The Ferrari F430 Challenge made its UK debut last week at Autosport International at the Birmingham NEC. The new racing car is derived from the eight-cylinder road-going berlinetta and will take part in the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli one-make...
Customers buying a Volkswagen Polo directly from Continental Cars Ltd in Msida or Arkadia Motors Ltd in Gozo this year are eligible to take part in the Buy a VW Polo and get your money back 2006 competition. Through the competition, the winner will get...
Visitors to Autosport International show at the Birmingham NEC this weekend were the first in the UK to see the new Mégane Renaultsport 225 in the metal. Renault already had an impressive show line-up, with last season's FIA Formula 1 World...
Subaru unveiled a new, 'discreet' high-performance Impreza last week at the Autosport International show at the Birmingham NEC for those wishing to combine blistering performance with restrained exterior styling. Called appropriately, Impreza WRX STI...
Friday 13 could mean bad luck for road users, with more deaths and injuries on Friday evenings than at any other time of the week. And while paraskevidekatriaphobics - people afflicted with a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th - may have stayed...
With record-breaking sales in 2005, Lexus has retained its title as America's top-selling luxury brand for the sixth consecutive year. The luxury brand reported total year-end sales of 302,895 units, up 5.5 per cent over last year's record-breaking...
EurotaxGlass's, publishers of the Glass's Guide to Used Car Values, is predicting a modest rise in rates of used car depreciation during 2006. This is expected to result from a continued slowdown in sales of new and used cars, coupled with an increase...
Forget about joining the gym or giving up smoking - the new year's resolution guaranteed to increase your life expectancy is to improve your driving. Autocar magazine, in conjunction with the RAC Foundation, is calling for changes in thinking from...
Volkswagen is back in first place in Europe. Measured by the number of new vehicle registrations, the brand has regained first place in 2005. "Volkswagen is a powerful brand," Dr Wolfgang Bernhard, chairman of VW's Management Board said in Wolfsburg.
When Rudolph Diesel devised a more efficient engine in 1892, he probably did not envision the situation that exists today: petrol and diesel sold next to each other from look-alike pumps, sometimes three or four in a row. But for anyone who...
Toyota Peugeot Citroen Automobile (TPCA), the Czech-based Franco-Japanese carmaking joint venture, on December 19 announced that the 100,000th car had rolled off its production lines at Kolin, around 40 km east of Prague. Production started in February...
The Opel Zafira won the prestigious Golden Steering Wheel award for the Best Compact Van in 2005. The award is voted for by the 11 million readers of the German weekly Bild am Sonntag. In this year's Compact Van category readers had the choice of...
The fifth race meeting in the National Four-stroke Karting league organised by Badger Karting was held on December 18. In the first race Mario Micallef returned to winning ways with a hard-earned win. Alan Curmi had an excellent qualifier and started...
Price and function play a primary role in the choice made by consumers across Europe considering buying a new car, according to a survey Euro NCAP recently commissioned from Market & Opinion Research International (MORI). Consumers were asked to...
Have you heard the one about the Skoda which beat all of Europe's best-known car manufacturers in a readers' survey? You have now - and it's not a joke. The days when Skoda was the laughing stock of the car world are well and truly over and Skoda's...
The renowned Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) in the United States has now also awarded the Audi A3 its highest rating of 'Double Best Pick'. This is the third Audi model to earn the 'Double Best Pick' title this year. The Audi A4 and the...
The most powerful cars, the most wicked music and the grooviest people: all this and more at the most important feast of automotive engineering in Italy, the Bologna Motor Show, held a few weeks ago. For this special occasion, Alfa Romeo created a...
Safety concerns over tens of thousands of counterfeit truck tyres, largely from Asia, have spurred Michelin, the world's largest tyre maker, to write to the European Commission, the Financial Times reported last week. Michelin has asked External Trade...
Polidano Brothers Limited (Polidano Group) became the proud owners of a brand new fleet of Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks. This fleet, consisting of 20 new tipper trucks and concrete mixers, is surely a first for Malta and goes to show the progressive...
The European New Car Assessment Programme has announced that the Citroën C6 launched last week in Paris is the first car to be awarded the maximum four stars for pedestrian protection. The executive-sized car is also awarded five stars for adult...
Meli Car Rentals Limited expressed their sincere gratitude to the Maltese authorities for entrusting them with the provision of the transport services for the recently held Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), in a statement issued last...
The Guardamangia car park next to PBS's TV studios has been transformed into a luxury car paradise as 59 BMWs used by the Commonwealth heads of state go under the hammer in a charity auction from 9.30 this morning. A car viewing session was held all...
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