Want to watch some car ads from yesteryear, filmed in FuzzyvisionTM and featuring comically outdated clothes/attitudes? Of course you do! All TV admakers face the same problem: they have a minute or less to make a product stick in your mind. Ideally, you should associate that product with things or you like. Just imagine the… read more
If we didn’t LOVE car maintenance, something would be terribly wrong! After all, as a successful independent garage, it’s what we do all day, every day, keeping car owners from Cardiff and South Wales on the road. But we get it – not everyone thinks like us. Some of you out there would rather watch… read more
Question: What percentage of British drivers would do something unsafe if they broke down on the motorway hard shoulder? Answer: 78%. That alarming result comes from a recent survey conducted by the RAC. They asked 1,900 drivers what they would do in the event of a motorway breakdown that left their vehicle on the hard… read more
Elon Musk claims that the new Tesla Roadster will hit 60 mph in less than one second. Yeah, well, Elon Musk says a lot of things. Then again, he’s achieved a lot of things too. So, for the sake of argument, let’s say that when the Roadster hits the roads in 2025, it achieves that… read more
The proposal to put restrictions on new drivers keeps reappearing. In the first part of this post, we looked at where we are with that. In Part Two, we’ll look at the pros and cons of Graduated Driving Licenses. Need a quick recap on Graduated Driving Licenses (GDL) systems? Here we go: GDLs put restrictions… read more
The proposal to put restrictions on new drivers keeps reappearing. In this two-parter, we look at where we are with that, and whether it’s a good idea. Remember the day when you first got your driving licence? If you were young – and you had a car – it felt like someone had handed you… read more
One of the key arguments for introducing 20 mph speed restrictions on many Welsh roads has been that lower speeds will improve air quality and lower emissions. Yet with claims of increased travel time and choked roads following the restrictions, some are finding that difficult to swallow. In our third and final piece about the… read more
Last time, we looked at two aspects of the new 20 mph speed restrictions in Wales – how they were being enforced and whether they still had public support. On this outing, we’ll investigate whether the restrictions are actually doing what they’re supposed to, and what the effects are for everyone. Have the restrictions actually… read more
Back in December 2022, we published a blog post with the title Life in the slow lane: are you ready for Wales’ 20mph limit? You could check it out right now (thereby enriching your life almost infinitely), but to summarise, it looks at the pros and cons of the Welsh government’s introduction of new 20… read more
So, despite eating your own weight in turkey and Pringles, you’ve somehow made it into 2024. Well done, that’s the first hurdle out of the way! What does the rest of 2024 have in store? We were researching that very question when we came across this story in The Telegraph: ‘Electric SUVs dominate Car of… read more
