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Karen Brady Me and My Motor

Me and My Motor: Karren Brady

Karren Brady, the businesswoman, life peer and star of The Apprentice, can afford to splash out on nice cars — but that doesn’t mean they are...
Published 04 May 2018
Project Neptune, Aston Martin's £4m submarine, can take you and two passengers 500m under the sea

Project Neptune, Aston Martin's £4m submarine

Q-Branch has outdone itself this time. Aston Martin has announced it has finished the design phase of its first submarine and has now starting bu
Published 03 May 2018
Watch this dog drive a truck into phone shop

Watch this dog drive a truck into phone shop

Dogs are meant to be man's best friend but you'd probably have a bit of a falling out with Fido if they drove your pick-up truck into a shop.
Published 03 May 2018
Around $600,000 strewn across highway after armoured truck's rear doors open while on the move

Armoured truck doors open releasing $600,000

What would you do if the doors of an armoured truck you were following opened up and bank notes started flying out across the road?
Published 03 May 2018
Father of two killed after crashing garage-built buggy he called 'Deathkart'

Father of two killed after crashing garage-built b

In a sobering tale for anyone with plans for a home-built 'project car, a Virginian man has been killed after crashing a Honda Civic-based buggy.
Published 02 May 2018
Live life in the fast lane: luxury Maybach limo said to have been owned by Lewis Hamilton up for sale

Lewis Hamilton's luxury Maybach limo for sale

It may have had two previous owners in three years, but when one of the is Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton, who cares?
Published 02 May 2018
BMW failed to act over electrical 'blackout' that risked the lives of its customers

BMW failed to act over safety fears on new cars

BMW failed to act on customer complaints and issue a recall for thousands of cars affected by a dangerous electrical fault that led to the death
Published 02 May 2018
Video: Ford's new Feel The View tech helps blind car passengers take in a view

Blind passengers Feel the View thanks to Ford

It is all too easy for drivers and their passengers to take the views out of the windows for granted. But for the visually impaired, the passing
Published 01 May 2018
Safety training urgently needed for mechanics working on electric and hybrid cars

Electric cars endanger mechanics' lives

The government has said every new car on sale from 2040 to be electric or hybrid but a leading industry body says new laws are needed to protect
Published 01 May 2018
It's the Land Rover's 70th birthday — here's the British 4x4's remarkable story

Celebrating Land Rover's 70th birthday

Land Rover has some pretty bold claims about its famous 4x4: that it has helped map the world, discover lost civilisations, and enabled...
Published 01 May 2018
Cost of car insurance drops for the first time in two years

Cost of car insurance drops

Drivers could be forgiven for wondering whether running a car would ever stop costing them more money each year. The price of insurance and fuel,
Published 01 May 2018
Tesla owner filmed in passenger seat using Autopilot says he was "unlucky one who got caught"

Tesla Autopilot user caught in passenger seat

The owner of a Tesla Model S who was caught on camera using his car’s self-driving Autopilot function while sitting in the passenger seat...
Published 30 April 2018