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You're never too young in Driving

24 September 2007, 12:42 PM

Road safety charity Brake is proposing teaching driver safety in schools.
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Light up, light up - while you still have a choice in Trade and industry

14 May 2007, 5:40 PM

Yesterday's news about a proposed law banning smoking at the wheel will have smokers incandescent with rage. 'How dare they,' they'll splutter, 'curtail our freedom to kill ourselves in our own cars?'

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Not getting the hump in Driving

28 March 2007, 3:27 PM

While potholes are certainly a major annoyance, for me there's something even worse on our roads: speed humps.
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Is your car a billboard? in Media

19 October 2007, 4:16 PM

Advertising has taken over the modern world. We wear labels all over our clothes; you can't drive down a street without seeing an estate agent's board; and you're going to have to skip another one now to read about what I think is an ad too far.
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Night-time is the right time? in Driving

14 June 2007, 10:16 AM

I love that new VW Golf advert.

Like Renee Zellweger's 'You had me at hello' in Jerry Maguire, the first syllable of Richard Burton's mellifluous reading of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood had me hooked. Then again, I am the stereotypical Welshman with literary pretensions.
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Getting down with the gangster lean in Driving

30 May 2007, 11:07 AM

There's this thing that's been bothering me for a while now and, thanks to Tim Westwood, I've just discovered that it's got a name.
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Show me the way to go home in Driving

5 June 2007, 11:37 AM

Every few months or so there's some story in the press about how sat nav systems send people into rivers, off the edges of cliffs or through sleepy hamlets, ruining the inhabitants' lives.
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The gospel according to Kerouac in Media

5 September 2007, 1:44 PM

Jack Kerouac's On The Road, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first publication today, is one of the great landmarks of 20th Century American literature.
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Greener than thou in Environment

13 September 2007, 3:39 PM

'It's all f**kin' green, isn't it?' That was what one senior motor industry executive from the UK said to me at Frankfurt. And he wasn't wrong.

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Where did all the petrol stations go? in Trade and industry

5 July 2007, 3:31 PM

After setting off for work the other morning, I realised that I needed to put some petrol in the car.
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Hot Panda in the city? No thanks in Cars

30 March 2007, 3:56 PM

I've just driven the Fiat Panda 100HP - and I'm afraid it's turned me into a motoring heretic.
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Death Proof - 21st century's first real car movie in Media

3 October 2007, 10:36 AM

It's been a bit of a lean time for us car fans at the movies of late. Apart from some great chase sequences in the Bourne films, there's been little to get the petrol in our veins racing while we sit in the dark popping popcorn and slurping on a bucket of Coke.
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Your car's been broken into. Who's to blame? in Driving

22 November 2007, 2:01 PM

It was one of those commutes this morning. Stuck in traffic for no apparent reason, I at least had time to get wound up by the ad on the back of the bus in front of me.
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Take it to the dump in Driving

11 April 2007, 4:47 PM

As it was a bank holiday, on Monday I joined the rest of the population of Wandsworth and headed for the local dump.
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Bring on the dancing girls? No thanks in Media

18 September 2007, 10:50 AM

Wandering around the Frankfurt Motor Show last week I had to check that I hadn't accidentally sat in a DeLorean and gone back to the 70s.
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Stay safe - but let's not educate drivers, eh? in Driving

27 April 2007, 2:10 PM

So have you been driving safely this week?
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Craig Thomas

Craig Thomas is managing editor of 4Car. He’s a family man, but he’s also threatening to learn to be a racing driver. Craig spent many years working in the world of design, and is on first-name terms with J Mays.

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5 November 2008, 8:57 PM

By ricbrown

Yeah sure its nice to have that heater system that warms up nice and quick, to have air con in the summer. But then at the same time feeling disconnected from the road and your surroundings. It mig...
5 November 2008, 8:52 PM

By ricbrown

Yeah sure its nice to have that heater system that warms up nice and quick, to have air con in the summer. But then at the same time feeling disconnected from the road and your surroundings. It mig...
5 November 2008, 8:48 PM

By ricbrown

Yeah sure its nice to have that heater system that warms up nice and quick, to have air con in the summer. But then at the same time feeling disconnected from the road and your surroundings. It mig...
5 November 2008, 8:46 PM

By ricbrown

Yeah sure its nice to have that heater system that warms up nice and quick, to have air con in the summer. But then at the same time feeling disconnected from the road and your surroundings. It mig...
5 November 2008, 8:46 PM

By ricbrown

Yeah sure its nice to have that heater system that warms up nice and quick, to have air con in the summer. But then at the same time feeling disconnected from the road and your surroundings. It mig...