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A study funded by UK retailer Halfords found that bird poop appears on red cars more than any other color, and it came to the conclusion that this means birds prefer to poop on red cars.  The study looked at 1,140 cars over two consecutiv...

It is meant to conquer range anxiety

Hyperdrive, a UK company that specializes in developing electric vehicle tech, has created a small, modular petrol engine that could be added to EVs to increase range and mitigate range anxiety. It calls the range extending engine the Range Extend...

It posts the best April sales since 2008

The United Kingdom continues to beat the trend of falling European auto sales. April auto sales were up 15% over last year, and it was the highest April sales since 2008. The UK Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) predicts that ...

The UK is getting two specially tuned BMW M cars that add thousands of pounds of extra equipment including three new colors. The M3 and M5 Performance Editions come in BMW Individual Japan Red with a Frozen Red wrap, Frozen White and Frozen B...

UK buyers will get a special Jeep Grand Cherokee S-Limited that goes on sale at the end of October.  “Styled and targeted to the important sports-line SUV sub-segment and with a high level of equipment on offer, the S-Limited is ver...

BMW is selling 100 limited edition M3 Coupe Frozen Silver editions in the UK, and each one is individually numbered.  The limited cars come with the standard 420hp V8 with a seven-speed M DCT transmission with M differential. What the car...

The government is investing half and 27 companies are investing the other half

The British government and 27 companies including BMW, Ford, Nissan and Tata will invest a cumulative 1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) over the next 10 years into researching cleaner engines. The government will provide half of the money, and ...

The government in the UK is taking the first baby steps towards creating a hydrogen fuel cell infrastructure. It launched a £400 million project together with Nissan, Toyota, Vauxhall, Daimler and nine other companies to make fuel cells in t...

The car is over a year away from production

Would you buy a car without being able to drive, or sit in it or even see it in the metal? That is what UK Honda dealers are asking buyers to do for the new NSX. The dealers have just opened pre-orders for the car before most of the details about ...

Does a previous owner increase a car's value? A 1971 Fiat 500 L owned by UK Prime Minister David Cameron will cross the auction block at Footman James Classic Motor Show at the NEC on November 17. Cameron received the car as a birthda...