Driving News

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Average cost of petrol remains at 112p a litre with some paying 124.9p despite wholesale price dropping over 34p in January

Motorists are still paying around 112p a litre for petrol despite recent falls in the wholesale cost of fuel, the AA said today.

The motoring group said between mid-January and mid-February retailers had increased the price [...]

• Car-parts chain buys Nationwide Autocentres chain for £73.2m

• Repairs market booming as recession means cars getting older

Car-parts chain Halfords has snapped up Nationwide Autocentres for £73.2m and announced plans to create more than 1,000 jobs over the next five years as it looks to grab a lucrative slice of the UK’s car servicing and [...]