Audi A1 hot hatch revealed

This is the new Audi A1, due for reveal at the 2010 Geneva motor show. It ‘condenses all the values of the brand down to less than four metres,’ according to Audi. The old A2 did that too (and arguably with more originality thanks to its all-aluminium construction) but while that was a car ahead of [...]

The end of Ford’s 2.5-litre turbo

Ford’s characterful five-cylinder engine is to die. The 2.5-litre turbocharged appears in a number of Ford products, from the Kuga SUV and S-Max people carrier to the Focus ST and RS. Now that Ford’s cleaner and cleverer Ecoboost engines are on the scene, though, the writing is on the wall for the warbling five-pot.

While it’s an [...]

Insuring a provisional driver? Pay-per-month is the best policy

Provisional Marmalade is offering to insure teenage learner drivers for as little as £91 a month

A new insurance policy for learner drivers, which costs around £90 a month, may be the answer for parents who are finding that putting their 17-year-old son or daughter on their own policy can cost £3,000.

The pay-per-month policy, which goes on [...]

Rabble-rousing about petrol prices

Labour’s Lindsay Hoyle is ignorant of the facts when he fingers fuel barons for pump prices when his government is to blame

In the run up to an election campaign, how useful for us to see how politics actually works in the raw. That view being given to us by Lindsay Hoyle MP in his recent piece [...]

Petrol prices heading for record high of £5.40 a gallon, AA warns motorists

The AA and RAC are urging the chancellor to postpone a planned 3p hike in petrol duty, due on 1 April

Motorists should brace for record high petrol prices this year as the cost of unleaded fuel surges to £1.20 a litre or more, according to research by the AA.

In a stark warning to consumers, the organisation [...]