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Britons spend £42 million a year on failed driving tests
The DVLA has shared statistics which show where the hardest and easiest places to pass a driving test are in the UK, based on data collected from 2015 to 2016. Interestingly, just 48% of the 1.3 million driving tests conducted each year were passed. At a cost of £62...
Most serious driving accidents occur in summer, not winter
According to motoring experts, you shouldn’t fear snow and rain; the REAL threat is sunshine. The Lookers car-buying firm claims that drivers should not dread dark nights and black ice in winter, because it’s actually during the summer months that UK drivers...
The diesel ‘fightback’ begins
Diesel car owners may feel a little under siege of late, given the sudden emphasis on diesel cars being the cause of much of the pollution in our towns and cities, along with plans to impose toxicity charge zones across the country. However, are diesel cars really the...
Oil prices continue to fall, how low will they go?
Motorists around the country could be seeing another drop in the price of fuel, as the cost of oil continues to fall. It dropped to $45 a barrel last week. Fuel prices have reached their lowest point since the beginning of the year, as the price of Brent...
ASDA fuel price cut – did other petrol retailers follow suit?
Supermarket giant ASDA cut the price of its fuel by 2 pence a litre last Thursday following the drop in wholesale prices, leaving other supermarkets to scramble to keep their prices competitive. The reduction will bring its price to a national cap of 111.7 pence per...
The new MOT: down-to-earth or downright dangerous?
The government is currently reviewing the results of its consultation on extending a new car’s need to have its first MOT from three years to four. For drivers’ wallets, it’s potentially good news, but many in the auto sector remain deeply concerned about the plan....
Will car loans be the next mis-selling scandal?
The latest Financial Ombudsman’s Annual Report shows that car finance loans have become the third most complained about matter. Following payday loans and PPI, car finance complaints have increased by a staggering 64% in the last year, leading experts to admit that...
Garage sells petrol “diluted with water,” forcing cars to break down
Earlier this week, several customers who filled their cars up with unleaded fuel at a BP garage on the East Lancashire Road in Liverpool claimed that their fuel tanks had been contaminated with water. All three drivers affected saw their cars break down less than a...
Super unleaded cheaper than unleaded in parts of the UK
Historically, premium fuels such as super unleaded have kept a respectable distance of at least 5 pence a litre away from unleaded. In some cases, the difference has been as much as 15 pence per litre. Recent data from PetrolPrices.com indicates that some supermarket...
Cheaper fuel costs coming as Trump exits Paris Agreement
The cost of crude oil per barrel fell back below $50 the moment that Donald Trump announced that the USA would withdraw from the Paris accord on climate change. The move has prompted speculation that the US will ramp up both coal and shale oil production further,...
2028: The year of reckoning for oil?
Plug-in cars make up less than 0.10% of all car sales globally, it’s a tiny fraction of the market that ‘Big Oil’ deems to be insignificant enough to be ignored, in fact, OPEC (Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) believes that by 2040, the Electric...
A PCP mis-selling time bomb?
It wasn’t that long ago that the media was full of stories about the mis-selling of PPI, with banks being the prime targets for vitriol and blame (with good reason, some would say). Now, the PPI scandal has gone quiet and many of the legal firms that were ‘only too...
Diesel sales plummet as threat of crackdown escalates
New figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers show that sales of new diesel cars plummeted by 27.3% in April. The drop is likely to be in response to a proposed crackdown on the use of diesel cars, which is expected to take place after the UK's general election....
Share your strangest experiences on British roads
British roads are some of the busiest in Europe and we are sure that many of our members have seen some strange things happen whilst driving. Well, this is your chance to share those experiences with the rest of our members and don’t hold back. It is worth...
May fuel price review: lower prices, but will they continue to fall?
Fuel prices in May 2017 continued to fall. With the per-barrel cost of crude oil down, supermarkets and major petrol retailers have passed cost savings on to drivers. The average price for unleaded in the UK in May 2017 was 116.7 pence per litre. For diesel it was...
Fuel to cost more at peak times
Do you fill up on the way to work, during the school run or on bank holidays? If you do, then you're likely to start paying an average of £1 more per fill up very soon. Artificial intelligence systems equipped with the ability to charge customers depending on...
Drivers waste 10 days a year stuck in traffic
A comprehensive study of Britain’s most congested roads has found that motorists spend an average of ten days a year stuck in traffic. Researchers from the Admiral insurance company considered travel times for different routes into 13 major cities around...
Cycle lanes create congestion and stop ambulances
Last week our article about drivers receiving fines for making way for ambulances received the highest response we have ever had from an article (99,000 visits). We are delighted with the comments, which in our view are better than the story, so please keep them...
Election manifesto round-up – who’s promising what?
The UK general election is on 8 June 2017. All the main political parties have now released their manifesto pledges. We look at what they could mean for motorists in the UK over the next few years. Liberal Democrat manifesto The Lib Dems have made the ambitious pledge...
Drivers not reporting accidents to keep insurance costs down
A recent Gocompare.com survey highlighted the topic of “fronting.” This is where the parent of a young driver puts him/herself down as a named driver to reduce the insurance premium. Not only is this illegal, it also invalidates the policy. However, around 16% of...
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