Motoring Articles and Features
Making the credit crunch work for car buyers 09/10/2008
The credit crunch is starting to impact on car-buying, with dealers and manufacturers feeling the pinch. But now could be the best time to buy a new or used car, or get good leasing and finance deals. How to make the credit crunch work for you.
Guide to parking signs and rules 23/09/2008
With figures showing that UK motorists are baffled as to the meaning of parking signs and regulations, we present our guide to parking signs and regulations.
Best 90's TV car adverts
19/09/200820 of the best 90's TV car adverts showcase an industry wising up to the buying power of women, and putting the battle of the sexes at the forefront of car commercials.
Nuclear reactors, nappies, dead cats: weirdest alternative fuels
05/09/2008Cow pats, coffee beans, deceased cats and dirty nappies might not sound the sort of stuff you want to fill your car with, but all have been posited as potential alternative fuels to oil.
Guide to the best 4x4 estate cars
05/09/2008As more drivers turn to all-road estate cars to fill the gap left by a gargantuan 4X4, MT scouts Volvo, Audi and Subaru to see how the leading lights shape up against one another.
Electric car: Timeline
04/09/2008Stopping short of well-documented Tesla Roadster and Chevrolet Volt, MT takes leisurely saunter down electric avenue littered with ghosts of these vehicle’s spiritual predecessors.
Ten cars to drive before you die
02/09/2008Who’d have thought a Saab, Volvo and a knackered Datsun would have made final list of ten cars to drive before croaking it? Probably no one. But MT did; yet mercifully added more obvious Porsche 928, Subaru Impreza and Ford Sierra RS Cosworth.
Hot hatch face off: Then and now
01/09/2008MT referees the ultimate hot hatch death match as it's gloves off, seconds out for 1990s hot hatches versus 2000s hot hatches. Sounds tasty? It should be.
Top Ten Supercars of Last Decade – Caterham R500
30/08/2008The Caterham R500 Superlight marks the final tyre screech on MT's whistle-stop journey through what it considers the Top Ten Supercars of the Last Decade. With Veyron, Reventon, Sagaris and 911 but a distant memory.
Body kits explained
29/08/2008As more and more views of cars are seemingly spoilt by introducing colour-coded plastic body mouldings, perimeter steps and other aftermarket exterior accessories, MT takes timely look at whole sorry body kit story.
Best Used Family Cars Under £1,000
29/08/2008There might be more than one way to string a cat, but there’s definitely more than one way to afford a credit crunch-beating used family car in 2008, as MT finds out here. Two of them are Rovers. Crikey, times must be tough.
Ultimate Car Travel Game A - Z
29/08/2008In-car travel games go back to basic ways of entertaining kids on long car journeys, and finds that it’s as easy as ABC. Reconnect with your family next time you plan a car trip out.
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- Top Ten Supercars of Last Decade – Spyker Laviolette C8 - 27/08/2008
- Part nine in MT’s mini-guide to Top Ten Supercars of Last Decade reaches for the stars. Well, skies above. There’s odd references to aviational feats included in the entrance fee, and some sexy pics of Spyker Laviolette C8.
- Top Ten Supercars of Last Decade – SSC Ultimate Aero - 26/08/2008
- MT's bitesize blast through what it considers the top ten supercars of the last decade moves into a higher gear, as Shelby Super Cars Ultimate Aero TT enters our thinking. And hangs around a while.
- Top Ten supercars of Last Decade – Porsche 996 GT3 - 22/08/2008
- Top Ten Supercars of Last Decade has already seen Bugatti Veyron, Lamborghini Reventon, TVR Sagaris, Ferrari 360 Modena and others come and go. So don’t – whatever you do – not click on Porsche 996 GT3 chapter and verse. You'll regret it.
- Top Ten Supercars of Last Decade – Ferrari 360 Modena - 21/08/2008
- Ferrari 360 Modena proves that it's not just green that brings out the worst in supercar-envious people, as MT's painstaking compilation of its Top Ten Supercars of Last Decade continues.
- Batmobile: Show us what you’re made of - 21/08/2008
- The ‘Tumbler’ Batmobile – as seen in The Dark Knight - is always cause for much discussion amongst Bat fans. Some though go that much further, by making their own Batmobile. These people often carry American passports.
- Top ten motorway services - 20/08/2008
- Not always seen as a welcome break, UK’s motorway services institution provokes Marmite effect in motorists. As a result here are the ten best motorway service stations in Britain..
- Top Ten Supercars of Last Decade – Nissan GT-R - 20/08/2008
- Day five of MT’s gander at what it considers Top Ten Supercars of the last decade, and things are looking livelier than ever. Like an eel in a bowl of jelly, the Nissan GT-R removes lingering notions that handling will be tamed.
- World’s Most Expensive Car Crashes - 20/08/2008
- The chronically unlucky - and fire un-retardant - Lamborghini Murcielago, complacent Ferrari Enzo, idiot-prone Bentley Continental GT and a few other finalists in our round-up of the world's most costly prangs.
- Top 10 Supercars of Last Decade – TVR Sagaris - 19/08/2008
- Day four of our trawl through the Top 10 Supercars of the last decade can mean only one thing. And it's excruciatingly loud, justifiably proud and a complex anagram of TVR SAGARIS. Good luck.
- The crash test dummy: A life in slow motion - 19/08/2008
- Crash test dummies – the unsung heroes of the motoring world – have their moment in the MT spotlight, as we take trip down memory lane with those who have made it their life’s work to ensure we can drive here, there and everywhere. In safety.
- The Coolest TV Drivers ever - 19/08/2008
- Occasionally set against a melodic backdrop of country and western music, these are the coolest drivers ever to get behind the wheel of a car. And they're all off'a your telly.
- Top 10 Supercars of Last Decade – Lamborghini Reventon - 18/08/2008
- Our third batch of Supercar exotica from the last decade comes in the futuristic form of the Lamborghini Reventon.
- Mods and shockers - the good, bad and ugly of modded cars - 15/08/2008
- Wince as Ferraris meet Turkish designers; gasp as a Jaguar XF meets its end in an American ride-pimping garage; weep as a Maserati Quattroporte gains another, er, porte. These are the best and the worst car mods.
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