The world’s biggest motoring show is back! Top Gear Series 25 sees Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris, Rory Reid and The Stig return to your screens. Six hour-long episodes see the team confronting the big issues: building the world’s fastest tractor, tackling America’s Wild West in shiny new V8 sports cars, attempting to land a NASA
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The new Ginetta G60-LT-P1 had its first roll-out test after being unveiled just over a week earlier, at the Autosport International Show.Now this is something to look forward to. The LMP1 machine undertook several high speed straight line runs at Leeds East Airport, Church Fenton, North Yorkshire with Ginetta Factory Driver Mike Simpson at the
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The average price of a used petrol car rose by almost 10% (9.4%) during 2017, following the Government’s continued demonisation of diesel vehicles. Over the same 12-month period, the average price of a used diesel car fell 5%, according to research conducted by car buying comparison website Motorway.co.uk. There is a lot of references to
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If you have gripe with a major motor manufacturer, in this case Audi, it pays to make your point with as much good humour and style as possible, rather like Peter Boswell has. Using the hashtag #AudiBrokeMyAudi he relates the story of just what happened when his dealer bought Audi started to play up. Like
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You don’t need to have a handbuilt Morgan to get your hands on a fabulous watch. Due to popular demand, premium British watch brand Christopher Ward, and luxury motor car manufacturer Morgan Motor Company, have announced the exclusive C1 Morgan three-piece watch collection will now be made available to all. Previously only available to Morgan
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Diesel cars are more than three times as likely to break down as their petrol counterparts and are more expensive to fix when they do, according to data from car ownership and maintenance firm, MotorEasy. Based on analysis of 30,000 faults on 3-8 year old cars across a 12-month period, MotorEasy found that the average
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When Volkswagen had to recall many of its vehicles a few years back because of the emission cheating software they had installed, you might have been forgiven for thinking that this was the biggest mistake a car company has ever made. The truth is that car recalls are not unusual and Volkswagen’s is certainly not
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We have been meaning to give a regular mention to our friends at the motoring Podcast. We will try and remember to do this every week, because it contains all the motoring stories we want to listen to, learn about and sometimes pulled to pieces and spat out the other end. In Episode 156 they
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MotorEasy, one of the leading providers of warranties, service plans and supporting products, is joining the 2018 Newspress Awards as headline sponsor. We like the Newspress awards as Free Car Mag seem to do rather well at the annual event. We are even more pleased that MotorEasy are now closely involved with the prestigious awards.
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Free Car Mag were out and about in the new SEAT Arona today. It was the smallest 1.0 litre engine which was very perky and brilliant around town. More details coming up in the February edition of Free Car Mag. The spoiler alert is that we did rather love it. SEAT’s eagerly awaited New Arona
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After eight hours of continual sliding, BMW drives away with the Guinness World Record, now standing at an impressive 232.5 miles of unbroken drifting. This obliterates the previous record by a whopping 143 miles. Enjoy the video.
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We rather liked the idea of this, but the thing is Skoda, made it come to life. Known for some of the most family-friendly cars in the business, ŠKODA has taken things a step further with the creation of a special one-off Karoq made entirely from cardboard. The handmade ‘Kid Karoq’ has been designed as
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