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Following traffic issues, a school in Stoke-On-Trent is set to become the first in the country to charge parents for a parking permit. The Staffordshire academy school is due to charge parents £2 per week…

Renault is famed for its rapid hot hatches that offer sports car performance and handling in compact hatchback packages. The Clio Renaultsport 200, though, changed the recipe, by growing in size and weight and coming…

Organised criminal gangs have been found to be setting up fake car insurance policies – some using innocent householders' addresses without their knowledge – simply to make fraudulent claims. The amount of organised car insurance…

Family cars and sports cars may sit at opposite ends of the car spectrum, but that doesn’t mean that sports cars can’t be practical – or that practical cars can’t be sporty. We’ve rounded up…

Around a fifth of cars on the road will communicate with each other in just a few years, researchers predict, as connected cars start to gain traction. New technology will mean that machines will communicate…

Henry Ford is famed to have said that buyers could choose any colour for their new car, as long as it’s black, but modern customers are spoiled for choice with hundreds of personalisation options –…

Volvo has always been famous for safety and the current V40 more than lives up to this reputation, being recognised as the safest car on the market when it was first crash tested. What Volvo…

Mini may have taken its time to introduce a five-door hatchback – with the first two generations of the new Mini doing without this more practical option – but the company has finally relented with…

Ford has updated its family-friendly van-based people carrier and added a new 1.5-litre diesel engine to the range – in 99bhp and 118bhp states of tune. The company has also added its new voice-activated SYNC2…