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Aston Martin might be the first luxury brand you would have imagined to embrace electric vehicles, but at the end of June it announced the RapidE — Aston’s first all-electric model. The RapidE will go into production in 2019 and will involve the Warwickshire manufacture […]

Here at The Vehicle Wrapping Centre we’re excited to announce 10 per cent off colour change wraps for cars (excluding chrome) for a limited time only. There’s nothing quite like personalising your car with a brand-new wrap, and the summer is quite simply the best […]

If you’re always the one whose Christmas presents are pristinely wrapped in crease-free foil, or even if you’ve applied a few decals to your own car or van before and found you have the knack for it, you might well be wondering how to get […]

This weekend will see the Bolesworth Estate in Cheshire taken over by all manner of track and road cars in support of Children in Need, as CarFest North 2017 gets underway until Sunday July 30th. A packed three-day itinerary includes all the four-wheeled action the […]

A company car has always been something of a status symbol – it usually means you’re ‘going places’ in every sense, and it can often save a good amount of money compared with running, fuelling and maintaining a car at your own expense. But what […]

We’ve all seen vehicles driving around with tinted or reflective windows, but many motorists – including many of those who have it done – are unaware of what the window tinting laws do and don’t allow, or how window tinting works. The Vehicle Wrapping Centre […]

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2017 is set to take place on June 29th – July 2nd with a packed itinerary of displays and demonstrations of some of the fastest road and track vehicles in automotive history. The first festival was held in 1993, making this […]

Continental Europe has a huge variety of destinations for a summer holiday, but with the option of taking a ferry or the rail link via the Channel Tunnel, both of which can take your vehicle over to the continent with you, the mainland offers some […]

We all love a summer road trip, and the UK’s relatively small size means almost everywhere can be reached by road usually in a single day. Even the route from Land’s End to John o’Groats is ‘only’ about 850 miles, and less than 15 hours’ […]

This Father’s Day, Leeds motoring enthusiasts will once again be heading up the York road to Castle Howard for the Yorkshire Post Classic Car and Motor Show. Described by the venue as an “event for all”, the one-day motor show and classic car rally is […]

The Vehicle Wrapping Centre is an approved installer of XPEL Paint Protection Film, which provides a barrier against damage to paintwork and decorative vehicle wraps due to stones kicked up from the road surface, and potentially corrosive substances like bird droppings and insects that collide […]

Listeners to BBC Radio 5 live’s Afternoon Edition programme on Thursday, April 27th, may have heard talk about bringing the USA’s ‘Adopt A Highway‘ scheme to the UK as a way of raising extra funds for road repairs. The proposal is one of many received […]

We’ve all seen vehicle branding on the roads, whether it’s a full-body vehicle wrap or a single section or side panel, yet many business owners still drive around in vehicles with no branding visible – so why get left behind by your larger competitors? It’s […]

Each year brings with it a slew of new vehicle technology, and in recent years it feels like this is only gathering more and more pace, with new engine types, zero-emission technologies and autonomous driving just a handful of the main developments. As the summer […]

Car wrapping is an easy, fast and clean way to restore your paintwork to its gleaming best, without any of the fuss of a wet paint job – and as we’ll see below, there are good reasons to consider a vehicle wrap even on brand […]

Like all kinds of evolution, there’s no doubt that over the past 130 years or so, the anatomy of the car has changed considerably. From the bumpers to the wheels, today’s vehicles are unrecognisable from how they once were. With that in mind, lets take […]

Whether you are a fair-weather motorist heading out on the roads for the first time in the new year, or you have been driving throughout the winter months, the springtime is a great excuse to make a few modifications to your car to keep it […]

Street food has proved to be a growing phenomenon over the past five years or so, from individual pop-up cafes in trendy suburbs like Chorlton and Didsbury, to organised events at the heart of Leeds and Manchester’s city centres. This is the coming of age […]

Pendle Powerfest returns to Nelson & Colne College in Nelson, Lancashire, on Sunday May 28th 2017, with all exhibitors welcome – subject to space restrictions, as the show fills up fast. The upcoming event has a Mud & Motorsport theme, and organisers are especially open […]

Aside from vehicle wrapping, decal design is a main service at both our Leeds and Manchester vehicle wrapping centres. Decals are great forms of advertising for when a full vehicle wrap is not required. More often than not we find vans, trucks, and food boxes […]

Here at the Vehicle Wrapping Centre we love getting to as many events as possible. Whether that involves meet-ups, showcases, races or rallies, there’s nothing quite like getting out there and seeing some of the UK’s top vehicles up front and in real life. For […]