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News: Daimler offers employees chance to have holiday...

Holidays are for relaxing with a piña colada or two... or three. Yet sometimes it’s impossible to escape the incessant beeping of work email notifications...
Published 14 August 2014
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News: Car insurer proposes women-only "PinkZones" for...

Nearly 100 years after fighting to get women the vote, what would Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the Suffragette movement, made of proposals for bright...
Published 14 August 2014
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Confused?: What hybrid or diesel SUVs are comfortable...

Q: What hybrid or diesel SUVs are comfortable over long distances and fuel efficient?
Published 13 August 2014
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Car clinic: my BMW's speedometer and mileometer have...

Q. My BMW's speedometer and mileometer have broken. Help!
Published 13 August 2014
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Car clinic: Skoda is recalling Octavia 1.4 TSI engines...

Q. I have seen reports that there are problems with the engine in the Skoda Octavia 1.4 TSI and that the company is stopping production. As the owner...
Published 13 August 2014
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Car clinic: What happens if you lose your French motorway...

Q. What happens if you lose your French motorway ticket?
Published 13 August 2014
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News: Hyundai reveals new i20 small car

Superminis are one of the most popular types of car with British drivers. Three new models will go on sale early next year - the Hyundai i20, Mazda...
Published 13 August 2014
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News: Car crash neighbour foiled by CCTV footage

A motorist who crashed into a parked Vauxhall Astra then tried to frame the innocent owner has been caught out by a neighbour’s CCTV camera...
Published 13 August 2014
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News: Blind man set to break 200mph in world speed...

Driving at 200mph is not for the faint-hearted at the best of times. At that speed the car is covering 89 metres every second...
Published 12 August 2014
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News: Your chance to own a Rolls-Royce for free...

Have you given up on that dream of owning a Rolls-Royce? Don't be so hasty; Microsoft has just thrown you a lifeline, albeit a virtual one, with news...
Published 12 August 2014
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News: Road rage lorry driver fired 762 bullets at bad...

Even "mild" road rage incidents are enough to give the average driver the jitters but spare a thought for motorists in Germany who have come up against...
Published 12 August 2014
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News: Jaguar releases details of its six new-yet-old...

BACK IN May, Jaguar announced it was to build the so-called “missing six” Lightweight E-types from a 1963 project called 'Special GT E-type'...
Published 12 August 2014