How many of you know that it’s Opel’s 150^th year of celebration?  There are many cars that have recently celebrated 50 and 100 years but these are spring chickens compared with other car makers like Opel.

Opel started off with sewing machines.  They mastered the sewing machine and then moved on to build bicycles.  Go to any Opel manufacturing plant, and you’ll still be able to buy conventional bicycles and electrically powered bicycles from ......

Let’s hope the 5 sat navs we are giving away in our Easter competition don’t land the winners in the same sort of trouble as these guys

Most direct route to Straddie

A couple of months ago our newsletter looked at how best to clean your car

We completely overlooked another way, and you need only one bucket of water to do it. What’s more, you never need to clean your car again!

Intrigued? Click here to find out how…..

You’ve probably seen that joke doing the rounds about the male way of changing the oil versus the female way of changing the oil, where the guy does it himself – with the “help” of a crate of beer or so – while the woman just heads down to the local service station and enjoys a paper and a coffee while someone else does it for her.  This wee script is a good laugh, but it is, of course an exaggeration.  Women can ......

Right.  You’ve read up all the reviews to find out which set of wheels suits you best.  And now you’re down at the car yards and you’re about to take the model you’re interested in for a test drive.  While the basics are the same in all cars – you have the steering wheel in front of you, the gear stick somewhere on your left (unless you’re in a left-hand drive car imported from the US or Europe), the accelerator pedal by ......