• Deadline looms for MOT testers
    • 03/03/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has warned that 25,000 testers have still not completed their assessment and risk being suspended from testing when the deadline passes on 31 March. To ease the administrative process, the IMI’s MOT Training and Assessment package is a three-hour e-Learning training [...]
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  • Euro NCAP releases updated safety ratings
    • 01/03/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Euro NCAP has released updated ratings for 18 commercial vans. The ratings are based on tougher tests of ‘active’ crash avoidance systems with ratings ranging from ‘Gold’ to ‘Not Recommended’. The tests were carried out in partnership with Thatcham Research, the UK’s only Euro NCAP accredited [...]
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  • Mitsubishi’s fuel tests falsified since 1991
    • 27/04/2016
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Categories: Magazine, News
    An internal investigation at Mitsubishi Motors has revealed that the company has failed to carry out proper fuel economy tests for more than 25 years. The car manufacturer, which is thought to be the sixth largest in Japan, admitted that irregularities in its fuel testing procedure date back to 1991. It comes [...]
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  • Google testing on public roads
    • 18/05/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    This summer some of Googles autonomous cars will be tested on the roads around Mountain View, California, where the tech giant is based. Before now, the small vehicles have only driven on test tracks and have not mixed with regular traffic. Google has tested self-driving vehicles on public roads but all of them [...]
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