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Reader Letters: touchscreen distraction, MoT emissions, stop start, no-parking signs and small car syndrome

Reader Letters: touchscreen distraction, MoT emissions, stop start, no-parking signs and small car syndrome

Published 26 March 2018
By Sunday Times Driving
Richard Porter’s review of the Volvo XC40 refers to the dangers of operating a touchscreen while driving. This is as dangerous as texting...
Reader Letters: electric cars, brake light dazzle, insurance, swerving and continental headlight converters

Reader Letters: Electric cars, brake light dazzle

"The reason why electric car manufacturers do not give the carbon footprint of the power they use is because it depends on the generation..."
Published 21 March 2018

Reader Letters: Electric car emissions & trackers

"We hear a lot about diesel emissions yet nowhere are we told the carbon footprint of a unit of electricity. It should be mandatory to quote..."
Published 05 March 2018

Reader Letters: Short-changed on insurance

My Audi allroad finally died after 250,000 miles and I replaced it with a year-old biturbo version. Calling my insurance broker to switch my..."
Published 19 February 2018
Sunday Times Driving Letters - Jeremy Clarkson VW Arteon review

Reader Letters: Badge bias, driverless dilemmas an

Reader Letters: Badge bias, driverless dilemmas and a Ferrari competition
Published 14 February 2018
Reader Letters: The joy of bikes, electric steering, supporting UK car industry, autonomous car and broken indicators

Reader Letters: Bike joy and electric steering

My wife’s Hyundai i10 returns about 40mpg and costs £30 a year in road tax. My Triumph Tiger Sport motorcycle returns 58mpg but costs £85 a year.
Published 29 January 2018
Reader Letters: Princess Anne’s Scimitar, wide cars, autonomous vehicles and taxing motorcycles

Reader Letters: The Princess's Scimitar, wide cars

In Jeremy Clarkson’s review of the Ferrari GTC4Lusso, he praised three-door sports estates, saying that Princess Anne “had” one. Make that “has”.
Published 04 December 2017
Jeremy Clarkson's Star Cars 2015-2016

Reader Letters: Clarkson’s pedigree and car age

"Jeremy Clarkson eloquently describes the Porsche Panamera Turbo as making 'a deep, growly noise like a dog having a dream'..."
Published 30 November 2017
Reader Letters: Motorway investment, premium fuels, dash cam crash for cash and Ford GT

Reader Letters: Motorway investment, premium fuels

"Driving the length of Britain on our dreadfully undermaintained motorway network got me wondering: are we really spending £60bn on the HS2..."
Published 23 October 2017
Reader Letters: Hearse campers, VW emissions fix failures, EV battery swapping, dash cams, Shell V-Power costs and DVLA data

Reader Letters: VW failures and fun in a hearse

I was interested to read about Peter James’s 1967 hearse (“Me and My Motor”, August 13). When I was an accountancy student in the mid-1960s...
Published 18 September 2017
Reader Letters: electric car charging standards and towing, M42 refuge, handbrakes on automatics and comfy seats

Reader Letters: electric car charging standards an

"We are charging ahead with electric cars without the necessary planning. The government needs to step in and introduce a fast-charging standard"
Published 12 September 2017
Reader Letters: Hydrogen car future, spare wheels, dash cams, solar trickle chargers and reporting illegal cars

Reader Letters: Hydrogen cars and spare wheels

"The plan to ban new registrations of internal-combustion-engine cars from 2040 has generated many column inches about battery-powered..."
Published 23 August 2017
Reader Letters: Electric car questions, flat batteries, road tax vigilantes and are parking brakes on automatics necessary?

Reader Letters: Electric car and tax vigilantes

"The government’s plan to ban the sale of pure diesel and petrol cars from 2040 sounds ambitious to me. Will there be sufficient power..."
Published 17 August 2017