Driven: Honda CR-Z

With ever more attention being paid to CO2 emissions and how the car affects the environment, it is fairly easy to predict that soon we will all be driving around electric cars. However not the traditional electric car, as this uses conventional electricity to charge up, is not very fast, or efficient and struggles to cover any useful mileage. And let us not forget where electricity comes from anyway.

However Honda has already created the vehicle of the future. It’s called the Clarity and it is technically also an electric car, however it creates this electricity by combining hydrogen and Oxygen. You fill it up with compressed hydrogen and out the exhaust comes H2O. Hydrogen, unlike oil, will never run out and when it is available throughout the world, will be cheap. This will undoubtedly be the future of automobiles, but for now let me introduce to you another green car from Honda, the CR-Z.

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Ford Focus Le Mans Classic

Ford Focus Le Mans Classic:

One of the partners of the popular Le Mans Classic event which takes place between July 9^th and 11^th, has prepared a collection of just five Focus RS cars in unique colour schemes, each paying tribute to the Ford cars which made
‘blue oval’ history at the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Each of the five Focus RS Le Mans Classic vehicles will be finished in the colours of one of the Ford cars which made 24 Hours history for Ford. During the event itself, they will even carry the race number of the cars to which they’re paying tribute:

• Black with silver stripes: a reference to the Ford Mk II, which was victorious in 1966.
• Red with white stripes: recalling the Mk IV which won in 1967.
• White with a thin blue centre stripe surrounded by a red border: echoing the decoration of the beautiful Ford Mk IIB, entered by Ford France in the 1967 Le Mans 24-hours.
• Two-tone sky blue and orange: A modern take on the GT40s which dominated Le Mans in 1968 and 1969.
• Two-tone white and blue: representing the livery of the Capri RS 2600 which took the Touring category in 1972.

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Honda Jazz 1.4i

First impressions of the small 5 door jazz are that it’s a comfortable car that will get you from A to B. The seating is comfortable, actually a rather surprising amount of space in the tiny bubble shell and the instrument displays are new and fresh. Read more