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A Bugatti Chiron to call my own

A Bugatti to call my own

I am about to custom-design a new Bugatti Chiron. It is known as the Molsheim Experience and is the road to ownership of the most expensive...
Published 10 April 2017
Black box proved motorist was fined one minute after parking

Black box proved motorist fined after one minute

A motorist successfully appealed against a £100 parking ticket by using a black-box recorder to prove that the penalty was issued within a minute
Published 08 April 2017
Bobbies on the bus catch motorists using mobiles

Bobbies on the bus catch motorists using mobiles

Police have fined dozens of drivers after commandeering a double-decker bus to spot them using their mobile phones.
Published 05 April 2017
Leaded petrol reduces intelligence decades later

Leaded petrol reduces intelligence decades later

People exposed to high levels of leaded petrol as children are still suffering from lower intelligence 30 years later...
Published 04 April 2017
Me and My Motor: the Bros stars Matt and Luke Goss

Me and My Motor: the Bros stars Matt and Luke Goss

Matt and Luke Goss were only 17 when they formed the hugely popular 1980s pop band Bros. The twins were teenage petrolheads, but while Luke...
Published 04 April 2017
Council’s £10,000 bill after pothole sidelines Ferrari

Ferrari + pothole = £10,000 bill for council

A Ferrari owner has been awarded £10,000 from a council after a pothole that would have cost just £53 to repair damaged his “pride and joy”.
Published 03 April 2017
Me and My Motor: Radio 2’s Jo Whiley

Me and My Motor: Radio 2’s Jo Whiley

Noel Gallagher does not suffer fools gladly. So when Jo Whiley’s young daughter rang the former Oasis star by mistake...
Published 31 March 2017
Skid risk grows on the UK’s crumbling roads

Skid risk grows on UK’s crumbling roads

Motorists risk skidding on a quarter of roads because of an alarming deterioration in the highways network
Published 31 March 2017
Neighbours rack up six figure legal bills in parking space dispute

Neighbours go to court over parking spaces

A “trivial” row over parking spaces has torn apart a millionaires’ community and led to six-figure legal bills, a court has been told...
Published 30 March 2017
Max Verstappen Q&A: 19-year-old Red Bull F1 driver can’t live without his Playstation

Max Verstappen Q&A: 19-year-old F1 sensation

Rebecca Clancy meets Red Bull Racing's teenage star. He likes raw meat, hates fish and is scared of hairy spiders...
Published 30 March 2017
Sterling fuels rising car exports and production

Weak sterling boosts car exports and production

Overseas demand helped to lift British car production to its best February in 17 years.
Published 30 March 2017
New Chinese vehicle plant for Midlands signals dawn of electric black cab

Electric cabs on horizon as Midlands plant opens

Britain is to get two new vehicle plants in one. Geely of China has said its new factory in the Midlands will assemble hybrid black cabs and ...
Published 30 March 2017