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Driving Green: What are hybrid cars?

The first alternatively fuelled cars to hit our roads in significant numbers were petrol-electric hybrids...
Published 05 August 2015
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Driving Green: Nine tips for eco-driving

You don’t have to have a new car or one with green tech to cut your fuel bills. Whatever you drive, a few simple steps will help cut fuel use –...
Published 05 August 2015
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Driving Green: Why have "green" cars been developed?

Burning fossil fuels releases all sorts of pollutants and carbon dioxide (or CO2) into the atmosphere. The former is being blamed for...
Published 05 August 2015
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Driving Green: What does Euro 6 mean when it comes...

Internal combustion engines emit a whole array of gases and until 1992, when the Euro 1 emissions standards were introduced...
Published 05 August 2015
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Audi S8 Plus is a 595bhp Porsche-eating stealth saloon

At first glance this large silver Audi may appear to be a lumbering luxury saloon that ferries fat cats or celebrities to meetings
Published 05 August 2015
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Driving Green: What is a "green" car?

What constitutes a green car isn’t as cut and dried as you might think. While for many, CO2 emissions are at the heart of what makes a car green...
Published 05 August 2015
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Letters of the week, August 2

This week: London's supercars, travelling in Iran and undertaking
Published 03 August 2015
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Road to hell: getting stuck in Operation Stack (and...

As a battlefield tour guide, Marc Raven frequently travels to France to visit key sites from the First World War. This year combat began before he...
Published 03 August 2015
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Inside Britain's strangest car show: the Festival of...

Why spend an afternoon at a festival for cars such as Ford Escorts and Austin Allegros?
Published 03 August 2015
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Car of the week: Ferrari 488 Spider

It is one of the fastest-accelerating roadsters that money can buy, but waiting for delivery of the new Ferrari 488 Spider will be agonisingly slow...
Published 03 August 2015
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First Drive review: Toyota Auris (2015)

The only problem I’ve really had with the Toyota Auris is mild confusion over the name. What exactly is an auris?
Published 03 August 2015
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Dom Joly reviews Volkswagen Golf GTE

The Volkswagen Golf GTI has come a long way since I was the proud owner of one
Published 03 August 2015