Car News

Local councils are being urged to ‘clear the clutter’ by getting rid of unnecessary road signs and street furniture that blight the appearance of towns. The Govt’s Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Transport Secretary Philip…

Ford has given its Mondeo family-sized hatchback and estate car a mid-life makeover. The current version has been on sale for three years now. In that time only Vauxhall of Ford’s close rivals has introduced…

Citroen is about to open the order books for the hot-shot version of its newest small car, the DS3. The newest model known as the Racing will produce 207bhp from its tuned 1.6 petrol engine,…

The Volkswagen Golf is Europe’s favourite new car. Figures just released confirm the hatchback as the continent’s best seller so far this year, shifting almost a third of a million in 2010. The Ford Fiesta…

The coming Bank Holiday weekend may be a last chance to slip across to Europe for a late summer break. But, if you drive abroad, could you be breaking the law? According to research from…

Wheel-clamping of cars who park on private land will soon be outlawed. The government has decided to end the activities of clamping firms who earn an estimated £1 billion a year. At present they target…

Tyre pressure monitoring systems – which check your wheels as you drive and warn if any are under- or over-inflated – will become standard kit on every new car soon. The European Union has decided…

If you’ve always wanted a new Civic Type-R, there’s no time to lose. Honda will stop selling the car across Europe later this year because it cannot pass new Euro V emissions legislation which comes…