Category Archives: Motoring News

M6 motorway to get Dunlop Motorsport bridge

March 31, 2012   Sean
Dunlop bridge
A 20-metre-high and 50-metre-wide bridge will tower over the M6 in Birmingham as tyre company Dunlop Motorsport plans to pay homage to its original factory, making rubber since 1916. Set to cost £5 million, the Dunlop Centenary Bridge is due to be completed by 2016, and will replicate the famous bridges seen on display by the manufacturer at racing circuits such as the Cirque de la Sarthe and Bathurst.
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managing managed motorways, Tips from the experts

March 31, 2012   Sean

Driver training specialist IAM Drive & Survive is offering weekly motoring tips to drivers from its head of training, Simon Elstow. This week he is advising on managed motorways.

“Managed Motorways” is the term for variable speed limits, sometimes in conjunction with opening the hard shoulder to traffic at peak times. The IAM says that managed motorways are very successful: the first one was the M42 near Birmingham, in 2006, and it has shown a decrease in personal injury crashes of more than half, none of them fatal.

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China bus drivers, Don’t hit those cars!!

March 30, 2012   Sean

Bus drivers in China have been instructed explicitly not to hit supercars, and to that end have been shown posters featuring the badges of various supercar makers to memorise.Yep, according to Car News China, the average bus driver in Jinghua couldn’t tell a Kia from a Koenigsegg. But now they have no excuse, because they officially know what the badges look like – and how much the cars are worth, which is also printed on the poster.
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Fuel sales soar after Government hits panic button

March 29, 2012   Sean

Petrol sales went up by 45% yesterday, and diesel by 20%, seemingly the result of the Government’s suggestion that drivers stock up prior to a tanker driver strike.”People, but especially businesses, should look at their contingency plans [for fuel],” said a Government spokesperson yesterday.And David Cameron was evidently not careful enough with his choice of language when he suggested, with typical verbosity, that “if there is an opportunity to top up your tank if a strike is potentially on the way, then it is a sensible thing if you are able to do that.”
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Saab to become Electric Vehicle specialist?

March 29, 2012   Sean
According to a report in industry website, just-auto, a Japanese/Chinese consortium has expressed interest in buying bankrupt Saab in order to turn it into a specialist manufacturer of electric vehicles.
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