AA slam supermarkets for excessively high shop spend limits to get fuel discounts
It’s hard to believe, and perhaps it gets lost with the differences between forecourts, but November saw petrol and diesel prices drop for the fourth consecutive month, by an average of £0.005 per litre. However, motoring experts say that fuel is still...
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AA slam supermarkets for excessively high shop spend limits to get fuel discounts
It’s hard to believe, and perhaps it gets lost with the differences between forecourts, but November saw petrol and diesel prices drop for the fourth consecutive month, by an average of £0.005 per litre. However, motoring experts say that fuel is still...
AA slam supermarkets for excessively high shop spend limits to get fuel discounts
It’s hard to believe, and perhaps it gets lost with the differences between forecourts, but November saw petrol and diesel prices drop for the fourth consecutive month, by an average of £0.005 per litre. However, motoring experts say that fuel is still...
read moreUK drivers getting lazy! Demand for automatic vehicles doubles in last five years
A report by the AA shows that those of us searching for cars with automatic gearboxes has almost doubled in the past five years, going from 9.9% in 2014 to 18.6% this year. In their recent survey of 20,000 motorists, the motoring organisation found most...
read moreTravelling over Christmas? Here are the top ten rip-off service stations revealed
The motorway service station has been around since Watford Gap opened in 1959. Back then, it was all fine dining and table-side service – what we’d call a ‘destination event’ today, but sixty years later, it seems that the prices are still aimed fine...
read moreStudy says a fiver’s worth of charge in an electric car takes you twice as far as £5 spent on petrol or diesel
A new study says that £5 worth of fuel—be it petrol, diesel, or electricity—goes almost twice as far in electric vehicles (EVs) than it does in petrol and diesel vehicles and, if you buy a bus or train ticket for £5, your mileage distance will only be a...
read morePetrol stations are the latest places to dish out pricey parking tickets
Parking one’s car can be a nightmare and an often expensive one, too. Whether you’re using a train station car park or you’re parking your car at home, work, at a retail park, or a hospital, you not only face wasting minutes of your life trying to find a...
read moreCar tax evasion rates have tripled since the paper disc was withdrawn
Road vehicle taxation has been around since … well, road vehicles. The UK’s first road tax schemes for ‘light locomotives’ were introduced in 1896, and then under the Motor Car Act 1903, all road vehicles were taxed at 20 shillings per year. No doubt that...
read morePotholes & parking: two key strategies to win you over
As motorists, we get used to the ‘bust & boom’ nature of owning a car; hit with taxes, hit with taxes, and hit with taxes, with some light relief of “actually, you car driving people deserve a break”. Of course, the cycle usually follows a strict pattern –...
read moreNew cars to have breathalysers and speed limiters by 2022 following new EU rule
A new EU regulation says that all new cars must have integrated breathalysers and speed-limiters by 2022. Existing models sold after 2024 must also have this updated safety technology. The British Government has confirmed the standards will apply in the...
read moreNet Zero 2050: Are any major political parties doing it right? The electric car revolution
“All the Conservatives can offer is green number plates” – Labour spokesman, discussing radical new plans to usher in an ‘electric car revolution’. Of course, both major political parties are bandying around key words and phrases, all designed to pique...
read moreBREXIT – The top private brexit number plates to go on sale for March 2020
Private car registrations are big business – in 2017 alone, the market generated over £110m in revenue, with an estimate of around £1.8bn being made since 1989. Everybody who’s somebody wants a private registration, or so it seems. Personally, there’s...
read moreCongestion means the average driver speed on some of Britain’s motorways is only 25mph
Official findings from an analysis of the 2018 Department for Transport (DfT) congestion figures show Britain’s motorways are struggling to cope with the amount of traffic and are so congested that, in some areas, drivers are clocking an average speed of...
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