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I love the Motor Show. The glitter, the glamour, the sheen on improbably clean car you’re seeing for the first time in the metal. It’s all pulse-quickening stuff. And while car makers this time have pushed their low-CO2, eco-cars hard, there are still more than a few quick and exotic cars on their way to us, too.
My favourite from yesterday’s visit?
Next time you’re stuck in traffic, take a look at the drivers around you. There’s a good chance that at least one of them has no insurance for the car they’re in. There are, it’s reckoned, two million motorists without insurance – that’s more than one in 20.
It’s a huge problem and one that costs you and me money. If you’re doubly unlucky
Road rage. Terrifying when you’re a victim, scary and disturbing when you see it happen to others.
Now, the RAC says it is what worries drivers most – more than rising fuel costs, gridlock, or speed cameras. The RAC’s report says that a third of us have experienced road rage. But it also reports that half of those quizzed by
Researching our feature article on ‘eight-seaters for big families’ proved fascinating. I’ve a friend with six kids. She and partner are fortunate enough to have money, so they bought a nine-seat Volkswagen Transporter.
But what I hadn’t realised until I talked to her was just how hard it is to pick a vehicle that’ll
Do you love gadgets? I once did. But now I’m not sure and I’ll tell you why. I’ve just spent a week with a Citroen C5 Tourer. Big estate, and a great car. But it’s also one that, so it seems, sprouts buttons from every surface.
Now I believe that good design should be intuitive.
Should chatting on the move using a hands-free set up be against the law? The debate’s re-opened after a court jailed a lorry driver for four years because he drove straight into the back of a queue of traffic, killing a van driver. The court heard that the driver was chatting to his mother using a
Our family runabout is a Honda Civic estate car. It’s much loved, a bit battered, and has covered 99,000 miles. My wife, Julia, takes it to the local main dealer for a ‘free health check’.
The service dept looks the car over carefully and the man on the desk, Phil, rings
Record fuel prices mean we’re all looking for ways to keep our costs sensible while still making the journeys we need to. And the best way to make a gallon go further is to...stick to the speed limits.
This might sound blindingly obvious. But what I didn’t realise is just how much extra
Tanker drivers responsible for the threat of fuel shortages at your local pumps earn around £36,500 a year at present. The increase that they would rather strike against than take would push them a fair bit closer to £40,000pa.
Now I’m sure that driving around with 8000 gallons of fuel aboard demands
So. A round of strike action by tanker drivers this weekend could spark long queues at filling stations as worried motorists brim their tanks. Will you be among them? The Government, as you’d expect, is urging motorists not to panic buy. That’s all very sensible.
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