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Driving with loud music could now get you a £100 fine
With more and more cars getting high tech sound systems, hearing loud music while driving has become a daily occurrence for most people....
Britons are overcharged £300 million a year on financing cars
A shocking investigation by a British watchdog has discovered that car dealers are manipulating customers’ interest payments to earn...
Half of used cars have a hidden history, warns RAC
A study using data from the RAC’s Vehicle History Check service, covering more than 32,000 vehicles has shown that over half (52%) of...
Volvo limit top speed of all new cars to try and stop deaths
On Monday (4th March,) Volvo announced plans to limit all cars manufactured from 2020 onwards to a max speed of 112mph. This is part of...
You could soon get a £50 fine for doing the school run
Last May, PetrolPrices wrote about how clean air campaigners wanted to ban the car-based school run. With figures showing that a quarter...
Latest diesels aren’t actually that dirty, new tests show
This is the tale of conflicting opinions, misinformation, financial burden and innovation; no, not the plot from the latest blockbuster,...
Tax it or lose it as DVLA reinforces its policies
New DVLA stats released earlier in the week show that over 460,000 vehicles in 11 cities nationwide are clamped or fined yearly for...
70% of drivers don’t know what to do when they see this sign
We’re sure that most of our readers have heard the legend of Hackney Carriages having to carry a bale of hay and some oats for their...
London scrappage scheme: PR stunt or helping hand?
In just seven weeks, a new daily charge is to be introduced for entering the City of London, it will affect all pre-Euro 4 petrol...
It’s quicker to cycle than drive in UK cities, says report
As UK roads get more and more congested, it seems that some drivers will have to become what they have, on the whole, despised for...
The smaller the car, the more reliable it is says Which?
Choosing the right car for you can be a mixture of sensible decision, financial obligation and with a hint of raw emotion, but even the...
Electric cars can have 40% less range in freezing temperatures
The writing has been on the wall for a while now: Electric cars are here to stay, the death knell is ringing for fossil fuel. That’s all...
Half a million drivers seen using mobile phone at wheel in 2017
Using a mobile phone at the wheel is never a good idea, and except in some extreme circumstances is also illegal. Between 2013 and 2015...
Drink drive arrests plunge amongst shortage of breathalysers
Incidents of drink-driving are on the increase, around 7% up typically, and yet some areas are seeing a 26% decrease in arrests for the...
Auto-renewing your car insurance could cost you an extra £130 every year
Every year people in the UK spend an astonishing £78billion on insurance premiums. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) report that...
Car industry on high alert as production slumps drastically
Car production was down 9.1% in 2018 due to numerous factors, including Brexit, lack of demand for diesel and strict emissions laws...
Autonomous cars report drunk drivers to police
Chinese tech giant, Huawei, has recently filed a patent with the European Patent Office for what could amount to some of the most...
Car theft on the increase due to keyless tech
New figures show that hundreds of the UK’s top-selling cars are at risk of theft by criminals who use technology to hack into keyless...
WhatCar? Car of the Year is electric for the first time
For those sceptics of EV’s, there’s a new kid on the block that could change your mind. The new Kia e-Niro tackles two of the most...
Motorists forced to foot bill to park at work
“A poll tax on wheels” – Edmund King president of the AA. In what seems to be yet another indirect tax on the motorist, a number of...
Police seize red diesel at UK forecourts
After three days of raids, officers uncovered over 79,000 litres (17,500 gallons) — with an estimated loss of duty worth around £56,000...
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