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Celebrating a Monumental Milestone: 10 Million Views on YouTube!

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Details: Category: Latest; Published: Monday, 04 March 2024 23:57; Written by Annabelle Quirk

We did it!

Unveiling the Future of Automotive Excellence: Cleveland Auto Show 2024

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Details: Category: News; Published: Sunday, 03 March 2024 17:50; Written by Annabelle Quirk

The Cleveland Auto Show 2024 rolled into town, setting the stage for automotive enthusiasts to feast their eyes on the latest innovations and trends in the industry

What's new for Planet Auto in 2020

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Details: Category: News; Published: Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:03; Written by Annabelle Quirk

It's that time of the year again - we've been awarded third place in the best UK automotive blog awards by Car Money: the car finance ninjas. It is quite staggering what has changed in the last year, as we also achieved third place last year. The way we're going, we may well be in first place next year!

It's been a rather busy couple of months, as you no doubt have noticed, now that we've retrieved our Mercedes-Benz from our former partner. We've also driven a fair few vehicles as well, including the Skoda Kamiq, the BMW 330e, and - obviously - the SsangYong Musso, which we used to tow the Mercedes back, and drop into Autosport International as well.

Coming up, we've got the Subaru e-Boxer XV, the Kia e-Niro, the Ford Ranger Raptor, and the Suzuki Ignis...and that's just the tip of the iceberg!

However, we've also got a car show to go to at the London Olympia, as well as a restoration in the Classic Car and Restoration Show at the Birmingham NEC.

Currently, Annabelle and I are both working on videos - I am putting together a video comparing the J and the K Astra, as well as a review for the 330e, a review for the Musso, and 30 years of premium luxury, watch the video above, where we compare the BMW 330e with the Mercedes W124 - it is quite staggering how advanced our Mercedes was for the time! Both retail for around £48,000.

What is coming up this month? Well, our aim is to put a blog out probably twice a month, just to keep you updated on what we're doing. If you want to watch most of our content, why not go to YouTube and search Planet Auto and you'll find our latest videos.

We have live broadcasts, cinematics, previews, walkabouts around the latest vehicles including the VW ID Buzz, and don't forget we also do put up some content with classic cars: for example the Peel P50.

We're also going to be uploading a video of the Frisky and lots more show content will be unveiled over the coming weeks.

Our YouTube subscribers are flying, with 4,593 subscribers and it goes up daily...we are getting well over 500,000 minutes watched a month, which is around 138,000 views...everything is increasing, it really is!

Watch out for work on our Mk2 Golf, and our 230CE project is well underway.

We've also got something coming up at Santa Pod as well with the Civic - more on that later..

There you go, that's January and February for you!

Thanks guys

The EU Has U-Turned | Now Agrees on a Class of Cars That Can Run On Carbon Neutral e-Fuels from 2035

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Details: Category: News; Published: Friday, 31 March 2023 23:52; Written by Annabelle Quirk

The EU has U-Turned on it's blanket ban of combustion cars from 2035.

PSA and FCA Merger talks underway - LATEST Merger 50/50 going ahead

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Details: Category: News; Published: Wednesday, 30 October 2019 13:43; Written by Ben David T Quirk

Big Automotive news today, the possibility of a massive merger combing the forces Fiat Chrysler Automobiles or FCA and PSA Groupe. That's right, talks are being are held again with the possibility of merger talks with PSA who own Citroen, Peugeot, DS and recently acquired Vauxhall - Opel know, these car companies have been in talks over the last few months previously.

FCA has been trying to grow the empire and have held talks with Renault Groupe, talks broke down when neither of the firms could reach an agreement.

This merger possibility would build a car giant with a worth of around £40 billiion, a combo of many of world’s biggest car brands. Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Jeep, Maserati, Lancia, Ram, Chrysler - while Groupe PSA who have recently upped their game with vehicles like the

The French company owns Citroën, DS, Peugeot and Vauxhall-Opel.

PSA have also expressed interest in JLR, Jaguar Land Rover and also previously held talks with FCA. Carlos Tavares PSA Boss lead the buy of Vauxhall Opel, and is looking to expand the company.

PSA issued a statement this morning saying: “Following recent reports on a possible business combination between Groupe PSA and FCA Group, Groupe PSA confirms there are ongoing discussions aimed at creating one of the world’s leading automotive groups.

The merger has been approved and FCA and PSA are going in on a 50/50. It'll be interesting to see how this evolves the automotive giant.

Princess Diana's Ford Escort RS Turbo Series 1 is at auction in this year's Silverstone Classic

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Details: Category: News; Published: Wednesday, 03 August 2022 00:11; Written by Annabelle Quirk

You’ve got your one in a million's, and this is likely the only chance you've got to buy a rather special Ford Escort RS Turbo Series 1.

Can I Jetwash my EV and Hybrid?

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Details: Category: EV; Published: Friday, 25 October 2019 22:08; Written by Ben David T Quirk

Should I use a garage forecourt car wash for my Hybrid and EV? In a word yes, Istobal have put together answer and info sheet.

How to wash an electric or hybrid car, there has been a lot of controversy about this, namely washing any vehicles with electrical sysytems, motors or batteries.

Highway Code 2021 Update

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Details: Category: News; Published: Friday, 30 July 2021 14:28; Written by Annabelle Quirk

Highway Code 2021 Update - Has It Created a Hierarchy of Road Users?
Updates to the Highway Code have been announced today, which - when implemented - will mean that pedestrians and cyclists have more rights on the road than motorists.

Updates October 2019 and the Subaru e-Boxer

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Details: Category: News; Published: Friday, 25 October 2019 13:28; Written by Ben David T Quirk

Our latest Subaru e-boxer videos for the Forester and XV from Latvia

What a great day namely for one of our cars, we'll get to that though - It's time for an update first things first our 1999 Honda Civic ek4 or Santa pod challenge car as its been dubbed has passed its MOT, it received one advisory for a tire that could do replacing sooner rather than later, not dnagerous though.

Mind you that doesn't matter because we are fitting some BBSs from the Mk2 Golf to it next week, they'll look cool combined with the livery, and apart from that it's all go at planet auto HQ.

We've lots of things coming up including:-

Subaru Levorg early next week and a roadtrip to Farnbrough.
Forester and XV e-Boxer models Latvia special Michaels last content for the channel
Youtube car Reviews being released ASAP are the MG ZS EV, Swift Attitude and New Subaru Forester

There's also lots of other cars coming up before Christmas including Mitsubishi, Honda, Vauxhall and Subaru as well as some heritage Honda cars to look forward to.

Isuzu D Max XTR First Look

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Details: Category: News; Published: Tuesday, 09 June 2020 08:51; Written by Ben David T Quirk

We are back with our first vehicle, and it's one that should have arrived far earlier, however it's here now... it was delivered yesterday and it's a Lifestyle pick up, the Isuzu D-Max XTR.

We had the D-Max Blade last year, a very capable pick up with a great price, the XTR capitalises on the D-Max and specs it up, quite literally.

XTR is one of the lifestyle variants of the pickup, lots of additions especially in the styling department e.g. the front guard which literally surrounds the grille and headlamps, extended wheel arches and even Kevlar ceramic brake pads, it's 25 mm higher and sports bespoke Pedder suspension.

Powered by 1.9 turbodiesel engine and a six speed automatic gearbox, it offers responsive throttle response, yet has short first few gears, makes sense they are made to be work horses primarily. You can also get a manual if you prefer it has on the fly four-wheel-drive and four high four low and descent control.

When offroading you want beastly tires, you get 17 inch wheels and 32 inch Pirelli Scorpion tyres, the sidesteps are designed to glance off rocks and there is lots of underside protection too.

When it comes its capabilities, on road feels well planeted and we'll find out when we go offroading in the next few days.

In a nutshell it can tow upto 3.5T and carry 1.24T on the bed, it comes with a fourcab allowing your passengers to travel in comfort, for this model including VAT it is around £43,000 and you can choose from four colours and they're all complimentary.

If this isn't quick enough you can even tune your vehicle for £800, which makes it as fast as a Raptor, it has 161 brake horsepower and 360 nm of torque, granted it's not the quietest engine in the world and its not that fast either hiting 0-60 in around 12 1/2 seconds but that's not what it builts for.

It's a very capable pick up with decent economy, superb looks and exceptionally good offroad, and if you want to something less sporty or something more sporty there's a range to choose from.

Watch out all this week on our YouTube channel to see what we get up to with the XTR.

Updates October

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Details: Category: News; Published: Monday, 14 October 2019 17:54; Written by Ben David T Quirk

Coming up we have a number of vehicles on review, including Subaru, SsangYong, Peugeot, MG and more.

We are also catching up on our video content too, you'll find these and more on our Planetauto Youtube channel - videos include

MG ZS EV Road Trip Part One

MG ZS EV Road Trip Part Two

MG ZS EV Road Trip Part Three

Concours Of Elegance Hampton Court 2019

Mercedes Sprinter Van 116 CDI Review

Part one of the ZS S Electric vehicle 400 mile road trip will follow.

BMW 330e review Musso road trip

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Details: Category: News; Published: Saturday, 29 February 2020 12:21; Written by Ben David T Quirk

Welcome to the Winter update it’s been a rather hectic time we have now uploaded a number of videos the road trip with the SsangYong Musso, Mitsubishi ASX, Vauhall Astra K, Skoda Kamiq, BMW 330e and reviews and of course show coverage.

Updates and the Future of Planetauto

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Details: Category: News; Published: Saturday, 05 October 2019 16:56; Written by Ben David T Quirk

Well what a few months it's been,there are a couple of announcements however let's get to the cool things first.

Celebrating a Monumental Milestone: 10 Million Views on YouTube!

Unveiling the Future of Automotive Excellence: Cleveland Auto Show 2024

What's new for Planet Auto in 2020

The EU Has U-Turned | Now Agrees on a Class of Cars That Can Run On Carbon Neutral e-Fuels from 2035

PSA and FCA Merger talks underway - LATEST Merger 50/50 going ahead

Princess Diana's Ford Escort RS Turbo Series 1 is at auction in this year's Silverstone Classic

Can I Jetwash my EV and Hybrid?

Highway Code 2021 Update

Updates October 2019 and the Subaru e-Boxer

Isuzu D Max XTR First Look

Updates October

BMW 330e review Musso road trip

Updates and the Future of Planetauto

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