A recall of more than 30,000 cars by Volvo is among the major safety notices issued by several car makers over the last month, with 16 other major brands also issuing recalls. Bentley, BMW, Citroen, Dacia, Honda, Hyundai, Infiniti, Lexus, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Peugeot, Renault, Subaru, Toyota, Vauxhall and Volkswagen also issue recalls covering everything from […]

According to RAC estimates, one driver every three minutes misfuels their car and a staggering 150,000 cars are filled with the wrong fuel every year. It’s clearly an easier mistake to make than people imagine and it can come with repair bills running into thousands of pounds. Making matters worse, while breakdown services and specialist […]

The Kia Ceed isn’t a car, apparently. No, it’s a family. With lots of different members who all look a bit different and do different things. There’s the Ceed hatchback, the Sportwagon, the Ceed GT and this, the ProCeed. The previous pro_cee’d was a faintly performance-oriented three-door hatch, but with the three-door market rapidly dwindling […]

With Brexit a little over a month away there’s still a huge amount of uncertainty around whether a deal on Britain’s exit from the EU will be reached. For drivers that translates into uncertainty about what they will need to do to drive legally on the continent after March 29. The details of any possible […]

Police have released a terrifying picture of the aftermath of a collision involving a broken-down car and an articulated lorry. Officers from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Police tweeted the graphic image of the mangled car along with a warning that drivers should never stay in a broken-down vehicle. The collision happened on Monday afternoon when […]

Volkswagen has admitted that it has received nearly 30,000 complaints about performance and economy drops on cars that have been ‘fixed’ as part of the Dieselgate scandal. The company’s former UK managing director Paul Willis told parliament’s Transport Committee that 28,617 owners had complained of an ‘apparent issue’ with their cars following a software update […]

A woman who was fined for driving through a bus gate in Chelmsford has won her appeal after successfully arguing that there were simply too many road signs for the brain to process. Dr Bernadine King – a psychologist, who has published a number of academic papers on how people process visual information – said […]

The Police and Crime Commissioner for West Midlands,  David Jamieson, has published stolen cars data for the region naming and shaming manufacturers whose vehicles are being taken most often. And he has promised to publish the West Midlands Police data every six months so drivers can make informed decisions about which vehicles to buy based […]

New analysis of crash data has revealed the areas where motorists are most likely to be involved in a crash with an uninsured driver. The study of figures from the Motor Insurers’ Bureau contains bad news for drivers in the North West, West Midlands and London, where the number of such incidents is far greater […]