04 Polaris Predator 500 Front Bumper on 2040-parts.com

Budget 2011: Fuel duty CUT & tuppence for potholes

Motorists Budget 2011 No once expected huge give-aways in George Osborne’s second budget – especially as we now have cruise missiles to pay for in Libya – but the hope was that the Chancellor would at least address the inexcorable rise in the cost of fuel. Which he has – sort of. Fuel was due to increase by around 5p a litre next week if he’d left Labour’s fuel duty escalator in place.

Top Gear Tonight: New Range Rover, designing a car for the elderly & James McAvoy is SIARPC

Top Gear tonight - Series 19, episode 5 – sees James testing the new Range Rover, Jeremy & Richard designing transport for the elderly & James McAvoy is SIARPC. You may have to start wondering what you’re going to do on Sunday evening soon, as tonight’s episode of Top Gear – episode 5 of series 19 – is the last proper Top Gear of the current series. Don’t panic yet, though, as there are still two more episodes to go, but they will be the two parts of a Top Gear special to Africa to find the source of the Nile.

May bids to build Mecanno motorbike

TOP GEAR star James May must be getting Meccano for Christmas because he is using the classic toy to build a motorbike and sidecar to race the Isle of Man TT circuit for a new show. The episode of his Toy Stories series, called The Motorcycle Diaries, sees May get to grips with a construction kit to try to build a vehicle capable of carrying him and co-star Oz Clarke around the 37-mile course. In previous episodes James May and his team have built a giant slot-car racing track, a full size Airfix replica of a Spitfire and a giant toy glider.