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This week’s driving tips from the IAM’s head of driving standards Peter Rodger are looking at how motorists can avoid intentionally staged road accidents that force insurance companies to pay out high claims. Here are Peter’s top tips to help you stay clear of these scams. If you’re travelling through busy urban roads stay extra […]
Further cuts have been made to the cost of diesel at Tesco, Sainsbury and Asda. Amazingly, this brings the cost of a litre of diesel below that of a litre of petrol. Oil has dropped as a commodity to below $50 per barrel making it the most affordable it has been for a long time. […]
Here at Car Articles, we’re big fans of cars of all shapes and sizes. We’re also big fans of the recent advancements in mile per gallon technology for both diesel and petrol engines. After all, better fuel economy means we can use our cars without having to spend more cash right? More importantly perhaps it […]
Morrisons have cut diesel prices for the second time in a fortnight, making them on par with, or lower, than petrol in some areas. The Morrisons price cut makes diesel cheaper than petrol for the first time in a staggering 14 years. Fuel duty was frozen again by George Osborne in the recent budget. Even […]
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has called on the Chancellor to freeze or cut fuel duty ahead of Wednesday’s (1st July 2015) FairFuelUK event at the House of Commons. Chief Executive David Wells has written to George Osborne asking him not to renege on his promise to hold current levels until September. FTA, which represents […]
2015 is the 17th year of continuous reductions on CO2 from the motor industry. UK average new car emissions are now at an all-time low of 124.6g/km, beating the EU target by 4.2%. Britain has surged ahead of Europe when it comes to plug in cars too, with more being sold here than anywhere else in […]
Over 97% of motorists believe parking at motorway service stations should be free according to a new poll by Motorpoint. An online survey by the UK’s leading car supermarket found 97.4% of people quizzed agreed that drivers should be able to stay beyond the mandatory two-hour free parking period at motorway service stations – without […]
Here are the key points of the 2015 budget and how they may affect you in motoring terms this year: Company car benefit-in-kind tax rates will increase by three percentage points in 2019-20, the Budget papers reveal. Rates up to the end of 2018-19 were announced in last year’s Budget. The Chancellor announced a rate […]
There are a number of things to look for when choosing any car, but the primary of which (unless you’re seriously rich and can have a car in each cateogory) tends to be that it does everything you need with little in the way of compromise. The family car can be a particularly difficult model […]
A record £6 billion will be spent on tackling potholes and improving local roads between 2015 and 2021, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced earlier in December 2014. The investment amounts to £976 million a year, enough to fix around 18 million potholes across the country. It is the first time councils have been given locked-in […]