The Car Hub

The month of February 2010 may go down as the start of the new electric car revolution.
Quite appropriately it has started in Japan in the East with giant car makers Nissan and Renault joining forces with the All Japan Ryokan Association (AJRA) who will promote and install electric car charging facilities in their 18,000 hotels.

Today the 4th. February it has been announced by the government that the car scrappage scheme will be extended for the second time to the end of March, this is due to the last tranche of the £400 million set aside for the scheme not being taken up by buyers.
Three months ago The Car Hub team had once again clearly stated that they continued to oppose the government scrappage scheme as it brought little benefit to the UK.

A report by the UK Automobile Association (AA) due out this week is expected to reveal that young drivers car insurance has increased by 14% in the last 3 months  of 2009 alone.
It’s not only young drivers who are getting hit in the their wallet, the parents of young drivers who are in the age bracket 40-49  years who decide to add their children onto their car policies have also been knocked with a 11% increase over the same period.

Beware, if new proposals come into force drivers caught using mobile phones at the wheel of their cars could face increased fines and more penalty points per offence.
A new government survey due out in February is expected to show an increase in the number of offenders using a mobile while driving, this kind of behaviour alone is said to reduce the reaction time of drivers by 30% worse than driving under the influence of alcohol at the legal limit.

Ford say they have confidence that their new Ford Focus is a world beater and will set records by outselling every other car. What's your comment?

The launch of Ford’s new Focus at the Detroit Motor Show today is no ordinary event. Such is the importance attached to this launch that the future economical viability of Ford is in the balance.
The plan is for the Focus to be a global car, suiting all markets, which will be the basis of at least 10 models building up to a worldwide annual production of 2 million cars to make it Fords biggest ever selling car.