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  • Blue-e-Motion is a winner

    Created: Tuesday, 15 November 2011 00:00
    A pre-production Golf Blue-e-Motion electric vehicle has won its class in the RAC Future Car Challenge for the second time, using the least energy to cover a 57-mile route from Brighton’s Madeira Drive to Pall Mall in the heart of London. The Golf was n...

  • RING AUTOMOTIVE INSPECTION LAMP

    Created: Wednesday, 09 November 2011 00:00
    WHO? Ring AutomotiveCONTACT?  www.ringautomotive.co.uk or 0113 213 7338HOW MUCH? £32.99 No matter how good the lighting is in your garage or workshop, sooner or later you will need extra directional light to help you properly line up bolts and en...

  • VW Aims for F3 engine record

    Created: Tuesday, 08 November 2011 00:00
    VOLKSWAGEN VERSUS TOYOTA – that’s what it’s coming down to in the 2011 FIA F3 Championship decider at the Macau Grand Prix 17-20 November, as VW attempts to become the most successful engine manufacturer in the event’s history. If VW does so it...

  • Ace Café Rolling Road

    Created: Wednesday, 02 November 2011 00:00
    ALTHOUGH KNOWN FOR GOOD FOOD, COFFEES AND automotive atmosphere, Ace Café is not known for rolling road days, but that all may change with a little help from NW Dubs this November 5, between 11am-4pm. Each rolling road session, for VAG only cars that...

  • TYROMANIA

    Created: Wednesday, 02 November 2011 00:00
    WHO? Dodo JuiceCONTACT?  www.dodojuice.comHOW MUCH? £5.95/£19.95 Tyromania is the new (and kookily named) tyre wax from Dodo Juice. It’s based on an orange oil and carnauba wax recipe that dresses tyre sidewalls and produces a water repellent ...

  • MANTIS WHEEL CLEANERS

    Created: Thursday, 27 October 2011 00:00
    WHO? Mantis CONTACT?  www.mantis-performance.com or 0871 221 2677HOW MUCH? £7.99 - £9.99 The Mantis car cleaning brand has released three new products to complement its existing range of waterless cleaners and scratch removers. First up is Perf...

  • AmD EXHAUST OFFER

    Created: Thursday, 27 October 2011 00:00
    WHO? AmD TuningCONTACT?  www.amdtuning.com, 01708 861827HOW MUCH? POA AmD Tuning’s last remap/Milltek exhaust offer proved to be so popular that it has decided to bring it back again. For a limited period, when you buy a Milltek exhaust at AmD T...

  • REPLACEMENT FRONT WINGS

    Created: Thursday, 27 October 2011 00:00
    WHO? VW HeritageCONTACT?  www.vwheritage.com/golfwings or 0845 873 7250HOW MUCH? £202.96/£280.96 As we reported in last issue’s Ignition, VW Heritage can now offer genuine replacement front wings for the MkI Golf, which have been made using or...

  • SCORPION TT-S SYSTEM

    Created: Thursday, 27 October 2011 00:00
    WHO? ScorpionCONTACT?  www.forgemotorsport.co.uk, 01452 380999HOW MUCH? £2203 Owners of Audi’s superb TT-S can now treat their cars to an amazing new system from Scorpion, which has been entirely hand-fabricated from aerospace grade titanium (y...

  • RS STYLE GRILLES

    Created: Thursday, 27 October 2011 00:00
    WHO? BM TownCONTACT?  www.bm-town.com, 0151 548 8565HOW MUCH? £135 Styling specialists BM Town has just released some new RS-style all-black front grilles for various Audi models. These grilles have the famous honeycomb mesh-design, which are no...

  • SCIROCCO SILLGUARDS

    Created: Thursday, 27 October 2011 00:00
    WHO? Richard Grant MouldingsCONTACT?  www.rearguards.co.uk, 01525 85388HOW MUCH? £39.95 Mk3 Scirocco owners will confirm that their car’s door sills are quite wide and so paintwork is quite vulnerable to knocks, scrapes and scratches as you ent...

  • Euro Parts Sold

    Created: Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:09
    Britain’s largest independent car parts supplier has been sold in a deal that could be worth as much as £280 million. ECP has been sold and the new owners are LKQ Corporation, reported to be the largest provider of aftermarket and recycled collision r...

  • Dr G-Werks Winter Health Check

    Created: Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:09
    NOT FEELING GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF? Depressed? Something seems a little manky? Well, nine times out of 10 for die-hard Dubbers it’s probably got a lot to do with their cars running right or not let alone personal health. But if that’s the case then this ...

  • Volkswagen up!

    Created: Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:09
    DEBUTED AT THE 2011 Frankfurt Motorshow, the Volkswagen up! is finally available to order in the UK, giving Dubbers an entirely new small-car platform to dig their modification teeth into. Due to arrive in showrooms in the spring of 2012, the hatchback...

  • Audi is 2011 DTM winner

    Created: Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:09
    GERMANY’S Martin Tomczyk is the 2011 DTM champion, after the Audi driver wrapped up the season early in Round 9 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, in Valencia Spain, recently. Placing third was plenty enough for the 29-year-old to seal the deal, joining a...

  • SEAT's IBL concept

    Created: Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:09
    EAT IS IN THE HOUSE! At the 2011 Frankfurt Motorshow, SEAT unveiled its super-sexy IBL concept which is said to point to future design ideas from the Spanish VAG car maker. And overall that’s no bad thing at all. The sublime-looking sports saloon sho...

  • Scirocco Racing R-Cup

    Created: Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:09
    BRITAIN’S 19-year-old Scirocco R-Cup hopeful Daniel Lloyd is still in with a chance to come second overall in the 2011 Scirocco Racing R-Cup, now that 21-year-old Polish driver Mateusz Lisowski became champion with still one round to go, recently in G...

  • Audi Gets The Message

    Created: Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:09
    ONE MIGHT BE FORGIVEN FOR THINKING CRAZY SPACE invaders were attacking if you saw fancy lights in the London night sky, but fear not it was probably just Audi. And it won an award for doing so, too. When Audi took eight robotic arms from its production...

  • VW's leather upgrade

    Created: Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:09
    GOOD NEWS FOR GOLF BUYERS, bad news for cows maybe. Either way you look at it, Volkswagen UK’s compulsory leather interior upgrade on all new GT, GTI, GTD and R model Golfs means customers will get extra value for their hard-earned. Plus, with Bluetoo...

  • Double Win For Volkswagen

    Created: Thursday, 20 October 2011 00:00
    Volkswagen has done the double in What Car? magazine’s Used Car of the Year 2011 awards with the 2006 Passat Estate winning in the Estate car category and the 2009 Golf TDI scooping the best Green used car accolade.   The Volkswagen Passa...