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98% of drivers would fail theory test if they retook...


Fewer than one in 50 drivers remember enough of the Highway Code to pass their theory test again, a new study suggests.
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Mirror, signal, hijack: hackers take remote control...


Jeep has hastened to reassure British Cherokee drivers that its car will not be vulnerable to hackers...
Terrafugia flying car

Terrafugia flying car Mk 2 scheduled for take‑off...


Customers may still be awaiting delivery of the Terrafugia Transition flying car, but that has not stopped the maker pushing ahead with its new model...
Simoniz insect and tar remover review

Products: Simoniz insect and tar remover and Halfords...


It’s summer, and that means insects. While a bug’s life is no fun when it ends in an unforgiving collision with a car’s bumper, bonnet or windscreen...
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Test your knowledge: Where and when was the world’s...


The world’s first filling station wasn’t anything like the petrol station most of us would recognise today. But it proved to be exactly what one...
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First Drive review: Lotus Evora 400 (2015)


The Lotus Evora, looking like an upscaled Elise, arrived in 2009. Now it has been reworked into the Evora 400, a car that pulls off the same trick...
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CLOSED: Win a Real FX Racing radio controlled game...


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Smartphone technology allows drivers to pay for fuel...


We all know how temptation kicks in once you set foot inside the shop at a petrol station. Magazines, fizzy drinks, freshly baked muffins and a cappuccino
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Are bonnet-mounted car mascots illegal?


I’ve bought a 2006 Jaguar X-type with a “leaper” mascot on the bonnet. Some people say it’s legal, others that it isn’t. What’s the position?
2015 Fiat 500 Pop review

First Drive review: Fiat 500 1.2 Pop


Sometimes you've just got to be brave. Sometimes you’ve got to be prepared to set aside
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Letters of the week, July 19


This week: Bentley consumption figures, new police power and Clarkson's Jaguar review
The wrongs of overtaking on the inside: does being branded a careless driver fit the crime?

The wrongs of overtaking on the inside


Will Dron admits he was wrong to undertake a lane-hogger, but as the police exercise new powers, is three penalty points, a 40% rise in insurance...