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 [...]

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 of [...]

• 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 repair [...]

For me driving lost its romance long before Toyota’s troubles – a lifetime of breakdowns, flat tyres and dodgy garages saw to that

Is the crisis at Toyota the collapse of civilisation as we know it? It had seemed that the one thing you could count on in an increasingly uncertain and dangerous world was the reliability [...]

Toyota is to recall almost half a million hybrid cars worldwide, including 8,500 of its Prius model in the UK, in the latest blow to the carmaker’s reputation following a string of safety scares.

The recall will begin immediately in Japan and similar measures are being prepared overseas, the firm said today. Toyota GB announced that the [...]