AUTO NEWS

Mike Brewer is inviting Wheeler Dealers fans to join him for an exclusive event at The Motorist in Yorkshire to celebrate two decades of the hit show on Saturday 7th October 2023. On 7th Oct 2003, the very first episode of Wheeler Dealers aired. Mike Brewer and his mechanic Edd...

As Mike Brewer will tell you Wheeler Dealers hasn’t been about making money but about saving cars. It’s certainly done plenty of that over the last two decades, but with such great classics and great work it’s inevitable that some of the cars have fetched big money. Here, then, are ten that...

A car with one very special royal lady owner is the latest to arrive at the award-winning interactive classic car museum in Ambergate, Derbyshire. A custom-built Middlebridge Scimitar No 5, which was previously owned by HRH Princess Anne for 35 years, has gone on display at Great British Car Journey. The...

What price celebrity? It is difficult to put a price on cars that have celebrity associations or media exposure on TV Shows. Both tend to boost prices significantly. Examples of celebrity cars that spring to mind are Princess Diana’s 1985 Ford Escort RS which sold last year for £722,000 and...

Graham Courtney test drives the new Mercedes AMG GT 63 S E Performance and gives you all the numbers you need. What you’re looking at is the first performance hybrid from Mercedes AMG and a lot of the technology under the skin of this sleek 4-door coupé comes from Formula...

A charity is hosting a track day at Castle Combe Circuit in Wiltshire to enable disabled people to drive. Speed of Sight is holding the event at Castle Combe on Wednesday 23rd August from 10am – 4pm and is its first track day at the venue for disabled driving. People with any...

Silverstone Auctions is changing its name, launching private sales and offering no seller’s commission for cars & motorcycles offered at no reserve. Highly regarded auction house Silverstone Auctions, which was started 12 years ago by Nick Whale, British racing driver and former main dealer for a number of prestigious brands,...

We’ve known about the Mazda MX-30 range extender for a few years, but now it has gone into production and reaches the UK later this year. It was back in the summer of 2020 when we wrote about range extender vehicles and how they had almost but not quite disappeared....

The British Motor Show returns to Farnborough International Exhibition Centre this month and our own Mike Brewer will be there too. Wheeler Dealers host Mike Brewer will be at the British Motor Show hosting the cinch Live Arena which will be jam packed with high octane action. Mike will be...

The Festival of the Unexceptional enjoyed another sell-out success at Grimsthorpe Castle on Saturday, crowning a new champion. Winner Stephen Pike drove his 1991 Daihatsu Applause from Sweden to compete at FOTU and had only just completed an extensive renovation the day before he undertook the 900-mile journey to Lincolnshire. “I...