BMW has always represented the more salubrious end of the car market, and now it wants all its drivers to enjoy the benefits of valet parking – even when popping to the local shopping centre. BMW’s Remote Valet Parking Assistant allows you to leave your car at the entrance to a multi-storey car park and allow it to find its…
Mazda has developed a new plant-derived plastic that will help curb its use of oil resources and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The ‘biotechmaterial’ can be dyed to give a higher-quality finish than traditional painted plastic. To be suitable for exterior parts, plastics also require weather, scratch and impact resistance. The new process produce parts that are as durable as conventional…
The advent of autonomous cars has the potential to reduce congestion, emissions, fuel costs and, most importantly, road deaths – the World Health Organisation estimates that over one million people are killed each year on the roads. The idea of using driverless ‘crash-proof’ cars to address these problems might seem fanciful, but the most significant barrier to their successful introduction…
The notion of private car ownership is under attack from a new generation of app-enabled sharing schemes – a vanguard being led by BMW and its DriveNow project. The German car maker has teamed up with rental giant Sixt to revolutionise the way city folk get about and to “make mobility so cheap that only the rich will buy cars”.…
Turning the ignition key first thing on a damp November morning was once a gamble, with little guarantee the car would stir itself into life. Thankfully, cars today are more than capable of dealing with the British winter and a few simple precautions can help avoid an unnecessary breakdown. Antifreeze During the winter you use more windscreen wiper fluid so…
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