UK

If you thought the recent distracted driving campaign from MINI in Mexico was messed up, then check this out. The UK Department of Transport has teamed up with advertising company Leo Burnett Worldwide to create a new ad campaign called Pub Loo Shocker with the hopes of reducing drinking and ...

When one hears about a missing household pet, we don't often tend to think to check under the hood of the family car. This is precisely where "Princess" the well-loved cat of Julie Tansley of Nottingham, England had been trapped since around May 7th. Princess was rescued from underneath the hood ...

In what must have looked and sounded to motorists on the M6 like an invasion of The Swarm, a parade of 50 enthusiast gems leaving a charity event were caught shooting down the on-ramp and merging into traffic. There were plenty of Porsches joining the 959 and Ducktail above, Aston Martins going ...

Autoblog sister site AOL UK reports that a company in London is hiring young drivers to sit double parked in the businesses vans, in an effort to avoid parking fines. As a traffic officer approaches, the drivers simply start up the van and drive away. Aspect.co.uk (a property management firm, as ...

Think that the new McLaren P1 supercar seems pretty tremendous following its launch at Geneva this year? We do, too. And now, after seeing the reaction the ultra-performance McLaren has gotten from McLaren Formula One driver, Checo (Sergio) Perez, we're even more excited for our chance at some ...

How's this for a technicality? According to a report from The Telegraph, thousands of speeding tickets issued to drivers over the last six years while traveling on a portion of the M42 motorway west of Coventry may not actually be liable for their fines. Why? Apparently, a series of signs showing ...

Just how quickly can a pit crew from the Ariel AtomCup swap out a set of tires? Quicker than the span of your standard stop light. One crew set out to prove just that by serving up a full changeover at a downtown London intersection. The team not only manages a complete pit stop (minus fuel, ...

Automotive News Europe reports new vehicle sales in the EU have hit a 23-year low after registrations plunged 8.5 per cent last month. Ford, Peugeot-Citroën and Toyota all suffered the brunt of that fall, but a few automakers managed to make gains despite the negative trend. Opel, Vauxhall ...

Mini again plucks a London landmark as the appellation for a special edition, the Mini Clubman Bond Street joining the Mayfair and Camden, and Bayswater and Baker Street editions of the recent past. You'll recognize the formula of primary colour and polished contrasting color, in this case its ...

We've done our share of posting on the powerslides and street racing that's part of Middle Eastern hooning in high-dollar exotics, but almost all of the antics noted have taken place in the Middle East... as you'd expect. The UK's Channel 4 has produced a documentary that goes deep into exotic ...