Category: Business

Scrap Your Petrol Car for an EV? Does the Claim Actually Add Up?

A provocative new study says replacing even a nearly new petrol car with an EV can reduce carbon emissions. The maths is credible, but real cars, real owners and the global motor industry make the answer more complicated

Imagine you own a perfectly good petrol car. It works, it is reliable and it might be only a year or two old. According to a startling new scientific study, the environmentally responsible thing could be to scrap it and buy a brand-new electric car. Yes, really. New Scientist summed up the finding with the wonderfully provocative headline: “It’s good for the planet to scrap a new petrol car and buy electric.”

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Car Wars: America Profits, Europe Falters, Has China Already Won?

The Car Wars

Detroit is rediscovering the immense profits in petrol-powered trucks, Europe is cutting jobs and cherished models while funding a painful transition, and China is building electric cars at a scale and price the old guard cannot match. Who is winning the Car Wars?

Have you seen the news from the car industry lately? There is a very clear trend emerging, and it looks like some have played a solid hand while others are flailing about trying to find a way out of the quagmire. Or is this really a rabbit and tortoise situation?

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China’s £7,000 Classic Car Body Shells: Brilliant, Fake or Unsafe?

Chinese classic car body shells
A vast factory in China is stamping brand-new bodies and panels for the Toyota AE86, Datsun 240Z, Ford Bronco and other classics. It could save the cars petrolheads love, but what about quality, identity, legality and safety?

Imagine ordering a brand-new Toyota AE86 bodyshell for around £7,000. Fresh steel, a perfect floor, an unblemished roof and not a single crusty sill, suspicious patch or wheelarch apparently reconstructed from newspaper, filler and the lid of an old biscuit tin.

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Exclusive First Look: MG’s Bold New Future! GO! Hatch, Cyber SUV and Self-Driving Tech Revealed

MG tech Day Go! Concept Cyber Concept
Ahead of their global debut, I got exclusive access to MG’s future plans, including two striking new concept cars, next-generation hybrid technology, semi-solid-state batteries and autonomous driving systems that could soon be reversing themselves out of dead ends

If you still think MG is simply the company making affordable electric family cars, think again. I was invited to MG’s London headquarters for an exclusive technology preview, and what unfolded wasn’t merely another product presentation. It was a statement of intent. From a cheeky little electric hatch that wears its British heritage proudly on its sleeve, to a dramatic performance SUV concept, plus a roadmap for hybrid powertrains, semi-solid-state batteries and autonomous driving, MG is making it abundantly clear that it wants to be seen as far more than just a value brand.

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The Future of Motoring: Driverless Cars vs Restomods. Has Driving Become So Miserable We’re Ready to Give It Up?

Driverless Cars vs Restomods
Artificial intelligence is bringing us closer than ever to autonomous cars, yet at exactly the same time classic cars and restomods are booming. Coincidence? I don’t think so

The other day I found myself driving around London. Well, “driving” might be stretching the definition somewhat because most of the time you’re crawling along, staring at the back of somebody else’s hatchback while trying to remember whether this particular road is still 30mph, has become 20mph, or was quietly changed last Tuesday while you weren’t looking. And it got me thinking that perhaps the future of motoring isn’t going to be electric versus petrol, hydrogen versus batteries or even SUVs versus saloons. Perhaps the real battle is going to be something entirely different. Perhaps the future is going to be driverless cars versus restomods. Bear with me, because the more I thought about it, the more it actually started to make sense.

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Britain’s Car Industry Just Sent an SOS to Government Over ZEV Mandate

SMMT asks for ZEV Mandate revision
The UK’s car makers say the ZEV Mandate is running ahead of reality. Is it time for a rethink before Britain loses jobs, investment and manufacturing?

The British car industry has just issued one of its strongest warnings in years. Not about Chinese competition. Not about Donald Trump’s tariffs. Not even about electric cars themselves. This is about Government policy.

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The Digital Car Parts Scandal: Why Your New Car Could Reject Perfectly Good Spare Parts

Part pairing
Remember when broke a headlight and replaced it with a £50 used replacement bought from the scrap yard? That’s no longer possible. Put a non-authorised replacement part in your modern car and it might reject it and shut down the whole car! Parts are now locked to the VIN of your car! Rip-off or great anti-theft security feature?

Remember when fixing your car was… well, fixing your car? Let’s say you clipped a wall and cracked a headlight. The dealer quoted you £500 for a replacement. You laughed politely, wandered down to your local scrapyard, picked up a perfectly good used one for fifty quid, fitted it yourself in an hour, and everyone lived happily ever after. Those days are disappearing. On many modern cars, fitting a second-hand headlight, ECU, instrument cluster, infotainment screen or other electronic component can trigger warning messages, disable functions or simply refuse to work altogether.

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The 5 Car Brands That Lost the Plot in 2026

Some of the world’s greatest car manufacturers aren’t failing because they can’t build good cars. They’re failing because they’ve forgotten why we loved them in the first place

The car industry has always been cyclical. Sales rise and fall. Models flop. Companies merge, split, collapse and occasionally rise from the ashes. Automotive history is littered with famous names that simply disappeared, particularly here in Britain where once-proud marques have become little more than museum exhibits or nostalgic memories. What’s different in 2026 is that we’re witnessing something arguably more alarming.

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Book: How to an Automotive Content Creator!

The ultimate guide to turning your passion for cars into a thriving career in automotive content creation, journalism, and social media influence!

You’ve watched my videos, read my articles, followed my rants and reports from the world of motoring… but now, I’ve taken it one step further. I often get asked – how did you start doing what you do, how does one get to do what you do? Well I’ve written THE definitive book on how to break into the world of automotive content creation! 

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