IT’S NO secret that these are the days of the diesel. The past 12 months have seen quite phenomenal growth in the sale of cars powered by oil-burning engines. Of the record-breaking total of more than 2.5 million new cars which left showrooms to grace UK driveways in 2002, around one in four were diesel [...]
NISSAN’S Note is a cracking small MPV with no downsides that I can see. It’s available with either 1.4 or 1.6 petrol engines plus a Renault-sourced 1.5 diesel, and all offer good pace and refinement. The 1.6 petrol is a gem, giving surprising response and performance, but much to my amazement, the diesel is very [...]
NO-ONE could call the NISSAN Micra pretty, with its pug nose and bulbous headlights, but it’s one of the best superminis to own because it provides huge fun and is very easy to drive. I have just sent back the most powerful in the range – the 160SR, which refers not to the power output [...]
A UNIQUE golden NISSAN Micra C+C has been produced to mark the tenth anniversary of Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s flagship campaign, Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. The one off 1.6-litre Sport model has been customised by former Atomic Kitten star Jenny Frost and can be won in a fund raising competition. In addition to the standard equipment [...]
NEW cars are being developed more quickly than ever before and there’s a raft of newcomers lining up for the September 57 registration plates. Despite the efforts of a vociferous minority of anti-car lobbyists the overwhelming majority of us value our personal transport more than ever and the automobile manufacturers are moving swiftly to cater [...]
REMEMBER the Matra Rancho? Shaped like a badly designed council house the Rancho had a kick roof, Range Rover-style split tailgate, meshed spotlights and all round wide rubbing stakes for those inhospitable parts of the dark continent. Except there was no way, despite the publicity images Simca dreamt up for the Rancho, that it was [...]
NOW that the deputy King of England, William Welsh, has signed up for the army, the Royal Navy must be somewhat storm-tossed. It is the senior service and note the Royal bit. Since when was it called the Royal Army? The Admiralty may be wondering what on earth has gone wrong. Especially in this year [...]
ACCORDING to Katie Melua there are nine million bicycles in Beijing, which suggests that as a holiday venue it is only of interest to maddists. China, it seems, for all its tiger-like economic growth is still the peoples’ utopia of sustainable transport and as such should immediately be twinned with Liverpool where the barmy tendency [...]
ACCORDING to Katie Melua there are nine million bicycles in Beijing, which suggests that as a holiday venue it is only of interest to maddists. China, it seems, for all its tiger-like economic growth is still the peoples’ utopia of sustainable transport and as such should immediately be twinned with Liverpool where the barmy tendency [...]
NISSAN’S stylish new coupe-cabriolet version of the Micra model has been given the go-ahead and will be built at Sunderland with the aid of a multi-million pound Government grant. NISSAN has secured a Regional Selective Assistance grant of £3.26 million from the Department of Trade and Industry to build the new car at its North [...]
