Over the past year or so my car’s been looking a little worse-for-wear. What with moving house and the long commute I’ve not really had a chance to wash it as much as I used to. Having read though a tonne of car cleaning threads on Seloc I thought I’d tool up with some new …
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Going for a drive…
After having a fantastic drive to work this morning, I thought I would dig out an old route for a ‘run’ I’ve done with the Lotus guys in the past. It’s based around the country roads in Surrey and Sussex and starts fairly close to my office finishing not too far from home. With the …
Fisker Karma
I was just looking through some car news and noticed this, the Fisker Karma: It’s a rather clever hybrid sports car, it even has solar panels in the roof to boost the batteries. But… it is just me or does the front look a little like the Joker? Fortunately the rest of the car looks …
Green fuels again
Just following on from my lost post, I’ve just watched an interesting piece on Channel 4 news about fuel prices and green taxes. In the piece, one of the talking heads said something like "road pricing is far fairer [than fuel duty] by pricing on distance travelled". I can’t help thinking that this way of …
Lotus and fuels for the future
Being a fan of all things Lotus, I’ve been following news about their tri-fuel Exige 270E technology demo with some interest. It’s essentially a standard Exige that has been modified to run on either Petrol, Ethanol or Methanol – or any combination of the three. Sensors tell the ECU what fuel is being used and …