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Renault Scenic’s 20th birthday

Renault Scenic

Renault is celebrating 20 years of the game-changing Scenic compact MPV. The award-winning Renault Scenic compact MPV was launched in 1996 and nearly five million have been sold during its 20-year production run. Now the success story is set to continue in 2016 with unveiling of fourth-generation model at 2016 …

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Volvo’s car without a key

Keyless Volvo tech

Volvo is planning to become the world’s first motor manufacturer to offer cars without keys from 2017. Replacing the conventional car key and fob with a smartphone application, Volvo owners will be able to automatically unlock their car when they walk up to it, then lock it again when they …

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Save money on your car insurance

Save money on your motoring costs

Insurance can be a pain, expensive and not the most exciting thing to spend your time or money on, so if you want to save, you’ve got to be smart. Car dealership Carspring has shared some small tips and tricks on how to beat the car insurers. Here are 8 surprisingly …

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007’s Aston Martin DB10 sells for £2.4m

Daniel Craig and his Aston Martin DB10

James Bond’s Aston Martin DB10 from the Spectre movie has sold for £2,434,500 at a Christie’s auction in London. The sale of the first car created exclusively for 007  will provide vital funds for Médecins Sans Frontières. It is the only car to date in the rarest DB lineage to …

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Penalty points – are you telling porkies?

Traffic jam

Millions of drivers are not owning up to driving licence points, new research has revealed. Nearly one in five motorists (18%) would not inform their insurer if they picked up penalty points while driving, according to a study by RAC Insurance. If true, potentially putting nearly seven million drivers are …

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Return of the Renault Alpine

Renault Alpine Vision

Renault is reviving its iconic Alpine performance brand in 2017. The new car is likely to closely resemble this new concept, the Alpine Vision. The mid-engined two-seat coupé will make its public debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March. It will be powered by a new 4 cylinder turbocharged …

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De-ice, stay safe

Winter driving

One in three motorists involved in car accidents in wintry conditions did not fully de-ice their car. New research by a money saving website VoucherCodesPro.co.uk has revealed that as many as one third of British motorists either experienced or came close to a car accident this winter after not fully …

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Britain’s favourite car colours

Ford Fiesta in white - the nation's favouite

White is the UK’s most popular new car colour for the third year running – of the 2,635,518 new cars registered in 2015, 21.4% were white. According to the figures released by The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the preference for white across most of the UK was not …

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Motorists are smiles better off

Petrol Prices Asda

British motorists are covering 3.8 billion extra miles per year thanks to lower fuel costs. The 20% fall in the price of fuel since January 2014 has left the nation’s drivers much better off, according to the study by Kwik Fit. More than four million drivers say that lower petrol …

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Kia Sportage review

Kia Sportage

The Sportage crossover SUV is a big deal for Kia. In 2015 the outgoing version achieved its best ever UK sales, accounting for more than a quarter of the Korean company’s entire UK sales. Kia is ambitious and the all-new fourth-generation Sportage is central to those plans. So, not only …

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