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Grants of up to £5000 will go to buyers of new zero emissions cars, Transport Secretary Philip Hammond has confirmed. From next year, buyers of electric, hydrogen fuel cell or plug-in hybrid vehicles will be…

This is the new A7 Sportback, Audi’s newest car and – amazingly – the 35th model in the make’s ever-growing UK product offering. It’s an upmarket hatchback that’ll cost from close on £43,000 when the…

As a rule, new models cost more than the ones they replace. But Vauxhall has broken with convention with the just-launched estate car version of its Astra. The entry model is £500 cheaper than the…

Huge cuts in the amount the Government gives councils for road safety means that thousands of speed cameras could be switched off. Ministers have pushed through a 40% spending reduction in this area, which will…

Want to know which is the most reliable car you can buy? Good news: according to the researchers at consumer champions Which?, it’s the Kia Picanto, which is also one of the cheapest available. In…

Seven stretches of motorway across England have gone dark from midnight to 5am, to save electricity and reduce carbon emissions. The Highways Agency has turned off the lights on patches of road which see little…

This is Peugeot’s new 508, the car that will next year replace both the current 407 family saloon/estate and the 607 executive model. At almost 4.8 metres long for the saloon model and a few…

Could this be the start of a price war? Hot on the heels of Ford’s decision to cut car list prices by an average of 11% comes a move by Honda. The company has trimmed…

Ford has cut new-car list prices for its Ka, Fiesta, Focus and Kuga. The reductions average 11% and take effect from August 2. They come hard on the heels of reductions made in the cost…