Top Drives gets 80 Porsches to play with!
We love this game at Free Car Mag and Hutch announces the latest manufacturer addition to Top Drives: Porsche, one of the world’s most prestigious sports car brands. The update is set to add over 80 new licensed models to Top Drives, the first automotive card...
Best Cars to Buy says Go Compare
Buying a car can be a daunting task. With so many makes and models out there, how do you know which one is right for you? Luckily, GoCompare car insurance has made the decision easier by rating the top ten most popular cars in the UK for speed/power, value for money,...
Is Hyundai buying Jeep?
Free Car Mag just wondered, because things at Jeep have gone very quiet in recent months. So quiet in fact, that there was no one to answer our phone calls. It was the same at Hyundai. Perhaps there is a big story about to break and anyway We wanted to find out if the...
Santa test-drives his new electric sleigh with Renault
Here is the sort of brilliantly silly stunts that Free Car Mag love... Santa’s Reindeer emit 40,600 tonnes of greenhouse gas during their worldwide Christmas Eve trip Santa is test driving an electric Renault Zoe sleigh this year to calculate how far he can get and...
WINTER CAR BUYERS CAN BAG A BARGAIN SAYS EXCHANGE & MART
Winter’s cold, wet weather, long, dark nights and the countdown to Christmas - put off most people, when it comes to buying a car. However, Exchange and Mart advises that now is the ideal time to bag a bargain for those thinking about upgrading their car, and offers...
Nicolas Prost wins FIA LMP2 World Endurance Title
Delphi partner, Nicolas Prost, helps the No. 31 Vaillante Rebellion car secure a first LMP2 World Endurance Championship with fourth win this season. Delphi Product & Service Solutions’ brand ambassador, Nicolas Prost, alongside team mates Bruno Senna and Julien...
Video is Killing the Classified Ad says CitNOW
Well this is the good news, boring, lifeless and sometimes less than informative classified advertisements are just not cutting it with car buyers anymore. Far better to see the car you want to buy in proper video demo detail like the one above. Urban car buyers may...
Guy Martin Builds Self Driving Van
AB Dynamics, a leading supplier of automotive test systems, has enabled Guy Martin to build a self-driving Ford Transit for a Channel 4 programme. The company supplied a variety of systems including pedal, steering and gear change robots to the project, which followed...
The cost of Driving Green according to Moneysupermarket
New research from leading price comparison website MoneySuperMarket reveals the countries environmental driving habits and the attitudes of British drivers with regard to ‘driving green’. In light of the government’s plans to ban all petrol and diesel cars by the year...
The Aston Martin Vantage has landed
Free Car Mag were at the launch of the new Aston Martin Vantage and the racing GTE. They also debuted a groovy film by Rankin. To introduce the new Vantage, Rankin brings his talents to a classic tale of rivalry, a portrait of a car born on the track, shaped through...
Top 5 Car Boot essentials this winter
The question we get asked at Free Car Mag quite often is just what should we be packing in our boot at this time of the year. Well, here is your expert answer. Richard Hitchman, Product development manager at Holt Lloyd, has put together his top five car boot...
Brits admit to breaking road safety laws
New research by car finance broker, CarFinance 247, found that despite the new, increased speeding penalties that came into force more than six months ago (24 April 2017), UK drivers are still willing to break the law to satisfy the love of their need for speed....
Vote for your favourite Classic car
It may be too cold outside for a Classic Car show, but here is your chance to relive the summer of 2017 courtesy of @HiKennys and his #HiKcoTY17 Here is your chance to play the classic concours judge, but without the clipboard and flat cap. Your vote really will count...
Self Driving Jaguar and Land Rovers now on UK roads
The good news is that we are now getting some better looking self driving cars. Free Car Mag is still a bit wary of the whole trend, but Jaguar Land Rover have a better chance of convincing us that this might at least be a cool thing to be part of. As part of the £20m...
Simoniz Scientists help you prepare for winter
Here is Phil Carruthers Chemist at Simoniz, just one of the scientists helping to protect your car this winter. Washing your car in the winter months can seem like a fool’s errand! Who hasn’t experienced the feeling of seeing the rain pour onto a just-cleaned car?...
Exchange and Mart Highlight Dangers of Device Driving
BRAKE’s annual spotlight on Road Safety starts from 20 November this year and Exchange and Mart is embracing this opportunity to remind drivers to put their phones down to save lives. Exchange and Mart figures* show that 28% of motorists admit to using their phone...
Alice goes riding in Central Park for the Pirelli 2018 Calendar
Imagine riding in Central Park alongside the Mad Hatter or Alice or the Queen of Hearts. The impossible happened in New York thanks to the "The Mad Hatter's Ride", promoted by Pirelli on the day of the launch of its 2018 Calendar by Tim Walker and inspired by "The...
Vauxhall and the London to Brighton.
We would have posted this days ago, but producing prints from those Edwardian cameras takes rather longer than digital. Vauxhall’s 1904 6HP is one of London to Brighton’s best-known entrants and had its 55th outing last weekend. Vauxhall’s former MD, Percy Kidner...
MotorEasy adds breakdown cover
Car maintenance and ownership service, MotorEasy, has launched a unique new breakdown cover product, the first to include a free health check at inception which comes with access to its comprehensive online car maintenance management portal. This means that customers...
Tyreweld, we always have one or two in our boot
Tyreweld - the ‘emergency service’ in your boot and we couldn't agree more. We just checked the boot of the Free Car Mag Classic BMW 3 Series and found two! We’ve all been there, dashing to a meeting last minute, on the school run or heading to the airport when a flat...
