Digging the dirt on cleaning

There’s a thin line between taking pride in a clean car and clinical obsession. Step over it, warns Simon Hacker, at your peril… Readers with young children might scratch their heads at any tribute to the world of cleaning and valeting: “Ah yes,” the thought process goes, “a clean car… I remember having one of […]

The weird world of ECOTY

With more than half a century of dishing out gongs, the European Car of the Year has been no stranger to controversy. Simon Hacker selects the keys to five cars of contention. Just what was that Fred van der Vlugt thinking? When he conceived the idea of a European award for the best motors, supposedly […]

Parking a nightmare

It’s not the number of cars on our roads that creates a problem, so much as the headache of where we leave the things. Simon Hacker searches for a safe place to park your sanity. 1 A new website that catalogues the rude messages drivers post on each other’s badly parked cars marks just another step […]

The quick and the dead

Reports of waning popularity for unrestricted autobahns prompts Simon Hacker to ask if 2016 could be the year the world slows down. 1 It’s official: we’re slowing down. Sort of. Scientists have worked out that the tidal pull on our oceans, thanks to the moon, is making our earth days longer. It’s not something we’re that […]

The new age of socket wars

Could the energy of the electric vehicle movement soon consume itself? As popularity for hybrid and EV cars continues to rise, Simon Hacker warns sparks may soon fly in the UK… 1 Individuality is a cool thing, you might say, until everyone’s doing it. Take the inexorable global rise of the electric vehicle (EV). Everybody, including […]

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