Monthly Archives: July 2012

M6 Toll Road pricing cars off the road?

July 20, 2012   simon

It appears that steep rises on the M6 toll road mean motorists are going back to the traffic jams on the old M6 route.The M6 toll was designed to handle 100,000 cars a day – the normal figure for a three-lane motorway. However, last year it was handling just 34,000, down from 55,000 in 2006, and the lowest figure since it opened in 2004. Since 2004, tolls have gone up from £2 to £5.50. Most of those displaced cars appear to have gone back to the old route, which is now gridlocked again.
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MP’s report on road safety: more training and more action needed

July 20, 2012   simon

The Transport Select Committee of MPs has criticised the government after the first increase in road deaths for nearly a decade. 1,901 people were killed on Britain’s roads last year, which is 51 more than the year before and is the first increase since 2003. Road accidents are the main reason for deaths among the 16-to-24-year-old age group.
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Land Rover: only happy when it rains

July 19, 2012   simon

Working in marketing at Land Rover gives you a strange view of the world: every autumn they pray for a really bad winter and now they are pointing to the floods as proof that Land Rovers are the essential choice. For the last couple of years, they have run big campaigns in the run-up to winter reminding people of the chaos snow can cause. It has certainly served them well: we spoke to one Land Rover dealer in the Cotswolds who said that people had been coming in during the snow of 2010 and refusing to leave until they had been sold a Land Rover – any Land Rover.
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New Honda CR-V announced

July 19, 2012   simon

An all-new Honda CR-V has been announced today, with the new car going on sale in October.Unusually for a new car, it is slightly smaller than the outgoing model. It is 5mm shorter and 300mm lower, but a lower floor means luggage space has actually gone up by 148 litres to 1648 litres. Interior space is also slightly better and the new CR-V has one of Honda’s clever rear seat folding systems (first seen on the Jazz). This one enables the both the squab and the backrest to fold down with a single movement.
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TVR: gone for good

July 19, 2012   simon

A report in Autocar says that TVR owner Nikolai Smolensky has ruled out going back into car manufacturing. Smolensky bought TVR in 2004 in controversial circumstances – and he became steadily more controversial until he abandoned the UK in 2006, leaving some unanswered questions.
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