Revealed: Areas with the highest rate of car insurance accident claims – including towns where one in five drivers have recently had a prang Sutton and Hemel Hempstead are home to drivers with most accidents Inverness was found to have the least accidents Rural locations tend to have a lower overall rate of main driver … Read more
Audi today launched its most affordable pure-electric family SUV yet, designed to plug into the wider mass market of middle-class car buyers. Priced from an entry-level £40,750 up to a range-topping £65,070, Audi said it was ‘daring’ to enter the highly competitive compact SUV market with its new hi-tech zero-emissions Q4 e-tron SUV and its … Read more
Only 240,000 motorists have so far bought an all-electric car despite all the talk about how they represent ‘the future’ of motoring. The fact is that TV adverts showing smug couples driving around the countryside helping to save the planet bare little resemblance to reality. Although electric car sales rose last month to a record … Read more
Car insurance costs reverse to lowest level in SEVEN years with premiums dropping a record 15% so far this year West Midlands has seen the largest fall in premiums in the UK The average cost of cover fell by £73.32 to £417.06 in the first three months of this year It means typical annual … Read more
Vehicle Excise Duty costs will rise for most drivers this month – but especially so for those in the market for a new car. The Chancellor confirmed in his latest Budget document that VED, as car tax is officially known, will rise in line with the Retail Price Index – with annual increases for drivers … Read more
For far too long it was a scene so laughably common that it could have been in a comedy sketch show. A sleek, smarmy salesman in a shiny silver-grey suit welcomes a husband and wife into his car dealership and proceeds to talk to the man about engines and horsepower, and the woman about vanity … Read more
Octopus Electric Vehicles has revealed a new 100 per cent electric car leasing service for businesses looking to become more environmentally friendly. The scheme, called Electric Dreams, uses a system known as ‘salary sacrifice’ which allows staff to pay for a new electric vehicle out of their gross salary, potentially saving them thousands of pounds … Read more
With car showrooms being allowed to reopen their doors to customers for the first time since the beginning of 2021 from Monday, mystery shoppers have already been on the case of dealers to find out which models will be most discounted next week. As part of the latest steps to ease lockdown, Boris Johnson will … Read more
Fuel prices accelerated in March for a fifth consecutive month, latest data shows. The average price of petrol rose 2.7p-a-litre last month, pushing unleaded to an average of 126.28p. Diesel prices have grown more steadily at 2.4p per litre in March, reaching 129.07p-a-litre on average. Simon Williams, the RAC’s spokesman on all things fuel related, … Read more
For families who want a practical SUV laced with svelte coupe styling to add some welcome pizzazz, Audi has created the new five-seater Q5 Sportback which we’ve driven ahead of first deliveries next month. It’s not cheap, with prices starting from a smidgen over £46,000. But if you’re in the market for a premium-badged family … Read more