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China builds world’s biggest floating solar plant in drive to switch to electric cars

China's floating solar plant for electric cars

China is to build the world’s biggest floating solar power plant to meet the drive toward electric cars, as it attempts to reduce the country’s...
Published 21 December 2017
Beam me up: advice will be streamed to dashboards by fibre-optic cables in motorway

Beam me up: advice will be streamed to dashboards

Hundreds of miles of fibre-optic cables running along the centre of England’s busiest motorways will aim to eradicate congestion by beaming traff
Published 20 December 2017
Me and My Motor: Adam Henson, the Countryfile presenter

Me and My Motor: Adam Henson, of Countryfile

Adam Henson, the farmer and Countryfile presenter, was driving Land Rovers around his father’s Gloucestershire farm from the age of eight. He gra
Published 20 December 2017
York becomes second city to ban Uber

York becomes second city to ban Uber

York has become the second UK city to ban Uber after receiving more than 150 complaints about the taxi-hailing app.
Published 20 December 2017
Booze cruise: why it's rarely safe to drive the morning after drinking alcohol

Booze cruise: driving the morning after alcohol

Tis the season to be jolly. But things may not be so jolly for drivers who drive the morning after the night before, without having checked wheth
Published 19 December 2017
The Clarkson Review: 2017 McLaren 720S

The Clarkson Review: 2017 McLaren 720S

By and large, it’s a fact that when Ferrari is making excellent road cars, its Formula One racers are slithering about, and then breaking down or
Published 19 December 2017
Fiat Punto Euro NCAP zero star crash test safety issues

Fiat Punto: Euro NCAP’s first ever zero star car

European vehicle safety organisation Euro NCAP has issued its first ever rating of zero stars in its latest round of crash tests.
Published 15 December 2017
Haynes how to change a spark plug guide

Haynes How-To: change a spark plug

Spark plugs are used in petrol engines as a source of ignition. An electrical spark ignites the fuel, which forces the piston along the cylinder.
Published 14 December 2017
First Drive Review: 2018 Audi RS4

First Drive Review: 2018 Audi RS4

Picture an estate agent mid mid-life crisis. We shall call him Giles, for that is his name. He used to commute to London by Porsche 911, because
Published 13 December 2017
Al Murray Pub Landlord cars Me and My Motor Sunday Times interview by Danny Scott

Me and My Motor: comedian Al Murray

"I often used to wonder what the Pub Landlord would drive,” says Al Murray of his comedy alter ego. “I decided he would have a cut ’n’ shut...
Published 12 December 2017
Jeremy Clarkson 2017 Land Rover Discovery review

The Clarkson Review: Land Rover Discovery

I have always hated the Land Rover Discovery. The first model was cobbled together out of some steel girders and bits and bobs from the dying...
Published 11 December 2017
The grand tour season 2 episode 1 review round-up

The Grand Tour season 2 episode 1: reviews

The critics have begun delivering verdicts on the new series of The Grand Tour, which was published on Amazon Prime video last night.
Published 08 December 2017