So here I am sitting on the train – going to London for the evening. Taking a moment to keep my hands free from driving to write my first blog welcoming you. Drive.co.uk is a new site bringing you news, views and opinions on all aspects of driving in the UK. We will try and publish interesting articles about driving and will be producing a newsletter with driving related offers and advice.

With today possibly a great day for the UK car industry, a new poor mans McClaren to be built in the south, just a snip at 150k and in Sunderland the new electric Nissan Leaf and all the associated paraphernalia that goes with driving electric, no pricing announced yet. I must admit I just sold my Fiat Multipla, which I loved, it had 170k miles from when I bought it new and did all I needed and was fun to drive. Sadly it was too new to be any benefit with the soon to be scrapped, scappage scheme!