It seems that despite the easing of the lockdown after the height of the Covid-19 pandemic many people are still very wary of using public transport. This is despite the various safety measures that have been introduced, including making mask wearing compulsory on public transport. As a result, according to many of the used car trade publications, dealers have seen a surge in demand for used cars, but particularly for prestige used cars. It is possible that this has been further ...

Our customers can be reassured that we are doing everything we can to ensure your safety as the pandemic lockdown restrictions gradually ease. Of course, most of you won’t want to buy a car without viewing it, although some customers have done so using the detailed videos of their chosen models on the cars for sale page. For those of you who do want to view a car, these are arranged individually, by appointment at a private location where we can maintain social distancing. All cars ...

Many customers purchase from me without seeing the car or would like to know about delivery and so I have put some information together which I hope you will find helpful: •   All viewings are individually conducted and are by appointment in a quiet and relaxed environment at a private location. •   All of my cars undergo a detailed valet when I receive them. •   You can view a detailed video on each car for sale page together with as much information as I can provide which I hope ...

A virtual dashboard is an electronic instrument panel, or digital dash, where drivers get a digital readout of such data as mph and rev counters, rather than reading an analog dial. The earliest ones were introduced in the 1970s but were phased out in the 1990s because users widely reported that they were hard to see in the strong sunlight or other bright light. Because of the way the speedometers operated, by stepping through a freeze frame of whole numbers at a constant sample ...

Many older cars had a sunroof which would be a small flap above the heads of those in the front, which popped open or slid back. With the advent of air conditioning in cars in the 1990s, their popularity faded but then the manufacturers re-invented them with panoramic glass roofs. They offer openings above both the front and rear seats and may be operable or fixed panels and provide natural air conditioning. They are made from laminate glass which will crack, but will not shatter, ...

In 1909, Henry Ford, famously said of the company’s newest model, the Model T, ‘Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.’. But in fact when the Model T first came on the market, customers could get almost any common colour except black. In fact, the first black Model T didn’t roll off the assembly line until five years later. Gradually over time manufacturers began to produce cars in a wide variety of shades and colours, although there is ...

We would all like to do more to help with combating climate change and considering switching to an Electric Car is something that might be on your list. But how practical is it? Obviously, cost will be an important factor, but the other big issue is charging your vehicle. While there have been improvements to the network of charging points available when you are away from home, coverage is still by no means universally available. This does mean that for some long journeys you may ...

For many years diesel-fuelled cars were promoted as being “cleaner” and less polluting than petrol ones. They accounted for half of all cars sold in the UK and Europe. However, in 2015 came news of a scandalous manipulation of the data following investigations in the USA by at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). The scandal, subsequently known as “Dieselgate” revealed that VW among others had embedded defeat devices in cars and their software detected when ...