FUEL - the purveyors of bass for sound systems, have laboured, sweated and given birth to some bass babies that bite. Passionate about their music and running some of the most heavy duty tunes and systems in the UK club and car tuning and styling scene, the Fuel people have created something where there was nothing made for their needs.

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All Fuel subs feature amazing power handling, a single voice coil with spider-woven tinsel leads, parabolic dual layer top roll suspension and most excellent of all, three ohm impedance. It’s tech talk for a subwoofer that can drop, throb, swell fatness and plain boom like it means it.

From the Fuel 600W 10″ STA10 subwoofer to the stunning (and huge!) 1600W Fuel FDE12 dual 12″ sub box the Fuel range won’t disappoint!

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New in stock from DE Multimedia we have the amazing DE-740 In Car DVD/CD/MP3/WMA Receiver with built in 4″ touch screen LCD, iPod control, USB, Bluetooth handsfree, analogue TV tuner and radio all in a single DIN Size unit for only £199.99 and the DE-7007 7″ In Dash Flip Out Screen with DVD/CD/MP3, analogue TV tuner and FM Radio at just £199. Finally we have the new DE-104 10.4 Inch Roof Mount TFT LCD Screen in stock at £149.99

A report from The AA has found that indiscriminate use of 20 mph speed limits and speed humps by local authorities can increase carbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption.

Tests revealed that a car that achieves 58.15 miles per gallon at a steady 30 mph in fourth gear will only deliver 52.3 mpg at 20 mph in third gear and traveling over speed humps has an even greater impact with 6 speed humps over half a mile causing fuel consumption to increase by 47 percent to 30.85 mpg.

Whilst traffic calming measures are necessary in some areas the report shows that badly placed 20 mph restrictions or speed humps can increase CO2 emissions unnecessarily.

Edmund King, the AA’s president said “We need independent research to ascertain both the safety and environmental implications of 20 mph zones so that authorities don’t make a huge and widespread environmental mistake. Researched guidance on 30 mph versus 20 mph limits versus speed humps will help road engineers to make informed decisions on where best to site lower speed restrictions on urban roads.”

AA: Fuel For Thought

An investigation has been launched after a survey by The Department of Transport revealed that a massive 5% of vehicles are unlicensed, costing taxpayers £217m over the last year. Up from 3.6% in 2005 the figure is double the DVLA’s target of 2.5%. The situation for motorcycles is even worse with a staggering 37% of all motorcycles being unlicensed.

It has also emerged that over 60% of people who failed to pay fines for untaxed vehicles were not pursued through the courts or using debt collectors and many people were not chased after their first offence.

The National Audit Office has warned that confidence in the DVLA’s ability to enforce Vehicle Excise Duty risked being seriously undermined.

Just in is a new range of speakers from Ballistic Car Audio. First of all we have two sets of 600W 4 Way 6×9″ speakers available with either pink cones or red cones, priced at only £19.99 a pair they offer unbeatable value.

Stepping up a gear we have the Ballistic Magnum 695 450 watt 5-Way 6×9″ speakers at £29.99 per pair. These competition series speakers have a frequency response of 34 hz - 24 khz and a SPL of 94 dB/W/M and look very attractive with their chrome finish cones and basket.

Finally we have the Ballistic Bedlam BD-12 Sub Woofer, a very well made, heavy bass speaker with a very heavy dual magnet design and a chrome finish basket that’s almost too good looking to be hidden away. Yours for only £39.95

Pay-per-mile road pricing trials will be held in at least one UK city within the next five years.

A draft road transport Bill, published on Friday proposes to grant new powers to charge for each mile driven on congested roads to at least one local authority with Manchester and Birmingham thought to be the favourites.

The new Government proposal will make £200 million per year available to local authorities that agree to introduce road charging schemes to test the technology prior to a national roll out.

Satellite tracking or electronics tags fitted to vehicles and roadside beacons are expected to be used and any profit is to be spent on improving public transport.

Source: The Times

This brand new 7″ In Dash Motorised Touch Screen from DE Multimedia has it all… Built in DVD/CD player, built in AM/FM radio tuner, built in TV tuner, 180W output and audio/video inputs and outputs.

Controlled from the touch screen, front panel buttons or included infra red remote control the DE7DVDTS is a breeze to use and will grace any cars dashboard!

Play DVD, VCD or SVCD movies, Audio CDs or MP3 and WMA files on CD or DVD - this DIN size multimedia center will do it all, compatible with CD-R/RW and DVD-R/RW media so you can still play all your “backups”!

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Police chiefs have called for the number plate system to be overhauled in a bid to beat “car cloning”.

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has warned that an increasing number of car number plates are being stolen or cloned to allow criminals to escape motoring fines or commit crimes without being identified.

The Police estimate that there was an increase of nearly 25% in the number of registration plates stolen last year, with in excess of 40,000 vehicles having their plates snatched in 2006.

Superintendent John Wake of the ACPO Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service told the BBC that there was no confidence in the DVLAs ability to prevent cloning. The registration plate was the “first form” of identification of a vehicle he said, adding “I don’t have confidence that beyond that you can identify that that vehicle is the legitimate vehicle for that plate”.

The Association of Chief Police Officers now wants all cars to have tamper-proof plates fitted and a new central body established to issue vehicle registration numbers.

More at the BBC.

Under a new scheme being implemented by Police forces across the country motorists whose cars are stolen are being charged at least £105 if they want the Police to recover their vehicle when it is found and check it for forensic clues.

Only car owners who pay the new fee are assured their cars will be dusted down for fingerprints or swabbed for DNA. Motorists who recover their own vehicles are being warned that their cars will not be checked for clues and that the police force will accept no further responsibility or take further action to identify the person who took it.

From The Sunday Times.