Cars

Britney tops worst celebrity flashers poll

Brittany Spears has topped a poll about celebrity flashers: women who accidentally / deliberately show off their undercrackers (or the the lack thereof) whenever they hop out of a car in front of the paparazzi

To help them avoid the same fate, women all over UK have been calling for a gadget - see, told you - that would help them avoid such mishaps. Hence the Exi-quette Car Curtain, from women’s insurance group Sheila’s Wheels


Audi planning an electric future

Pop down to your local Audi dealer in a few years time and you could end up driving away a planet-saving electric car, rather than the Q7 ‘gas guzzlers’ the company touts today


Geneva Motor Shows goes green

The Geneva Motor Show kicks off next week – and eco-friendly people cars are at the heart of the innovations on display


VW Concept A: slick, quick and very, very green

Most car companies rarely turn their revolutionary visions of the future into fact, but Volkswagen could make an exception for its Concept A BlueMotion compact SUV


Geneva Motor Show 2006: Dodge Hornet concept buzzes in

Chrysler-owned Dodge reckons its Hornet B-class concept is creating a huge ‘buzz’ at the Geneva Motor Show - and who would dare disagree?


Renault Espace tops Britain’s worst cars poll

If you own a Renault Espace, then good luck - with a 71 per cent failure rate it’s Britain’s most unreliable car


Volkswagen EcoRacer: 100mpg supercar

OK ’supercar’ is a slight exaggeration, but Volkwagen’s new EcoRacer can reach 0-60mph in 6.3 seconds – not bad for a car that also returns 100mpg