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World’s smallest car dealership to open – in a phone box

Peugeot has announced that it is to open the smallest car dealership in the world, in a phone box in central London. Next Tuesday, the iconic crimson phone box in Russell Square will throw open its door to customers looking for one of the French manufacturer’s fresh models. At 0.8 square metres, there isn’t a […]

Dramatic crash test footage shows the difference twenty years makes

It is twenty years this month since safety figure Euro NCAP launched its programme of crash testing. Since then it has smashed, crashed and battered uncountable fresh vehicles into a multiplicity of objects to assess how well they protect their occupants and its results have helped form and drive the development of safety systems across […]

Peugeot Instinct concept driven

You won’t be able to buy it, more’s the pity, but some of the Instinct’s sporty features should make it into production The worst thing about truly nice-looking concepts like the Peugeot Instinct is the almost inescapable discovery that you’ll never see one on the streets. Slew of other stylish Peugeot concepts have burst onto the […]

Fresh car sales proceed to fall

The sale of fresh cars fell for the fifth consecutive month in August, according to official figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). August is generally a slower month for car sales as buyers put off purchases until the registration plate switch at the begin of September but registrations last month were […]

Harsh fresh real-world economy and emissions testing comes into force

The way fresh cars are tested for fuel economy and emissions has been overhauled for the very first time in twenty years. This month sees the introduction of two fresh tests which aim to more accurately measure how much fuel vehicles burn and the levels of air pollution they emit. The much-criticised Fresh European Driving Cycle […]

QUIZ: Three out of four drivers can’t identify basic road signs, can you?

Millions of British motorists are incapable to correctly read the road signs that crowd our highways and byways. When questioned, three quarters of drivers didn’t know the meanings of all the road signs in the Highway Code, with many not even realising there are different categories of signs. Despite sitting their tests most recently, only […]

DS adds contactless payment to car keys

September marks ten years since contactless payment was introduced to the UK. Initial uptake was fairly slow but the last duo of years have seen a fat leap in its use, with shoppers turning to contactless bank cards as well as mobile phone systems such as Android Pay and Apple Pay. Now drivers are being […]

Railing in the Rimac Concept One

A crash-free rail in one of the seven remaining 1224bhp Rimacs “We benchmarked this car against the nine hundred eighteen Spyder, the Veyron and the LaFerrari. This is way quicker.” That’s the response of Rimac test driver Miroslav Zrncevic when we ask him how Rimac’s Concept One stacks up against other hypercars you may have heard of. […]

UK unleaded petrol prices set to soar as US hurricane whips up request

British drivers are being warned that the price of unleaded petrol could hop in the coming days as request in the US – as a result of Hurricane Harvey – has seen wholesale prices soar. The RAC is warning that the price of a litre of petrol could rise by up to 4p per litre, […]

Drivers with personalised plates are six times as likely to be caught speeding

Drivers with a personalised number plate are six times more likely to have received a speeding ticket in the past three years, according to data collected by MoneySuperMarket. With the fresh ‘67’ registration plates being released today, MoneySuperMarket polled over Two,000 people to get the nation’s opinions on so-called ‘vanity’ plates. Over half of people […]

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