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Video: SkyRunner flying car crashes during takeoff

Despite flying cars first getting off the ground as long ago as 1949, when Moulton “Molt” Taylor, an American inventor, took to the skies in the...
Published 14 February 2018
Sunday Times Driving Me and My Motor interview: Sir Ranulph Fiennes, explorer

Me and My Motor: Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Sir Ranulph Fiennes has explored some of the world’s most inhospitable places. Seemingly immune to pain, he once removed his frostbitten fingerti
Published 14 February 2018
Subaru Impreza WRX: Drive! Philip Glenister's favourite getaway cars at the London Classic Car Show

Philip Glenister's top getaway cars

is there such a thing as a "good" getaway car? It's perhaps a little oxymoronic but certainly, some cars are better suited to the role than...
Published 13 February 2018
Gee whiz: the muscular Mercedes-AMG G 63 can outrun a Porsche 911

Gee whiz: new Mercedes-AMG G 63 can outrun a 911

When it comes to listing unlikely high-performance cars, the Mercedes-AMG G 63 has to be somewhere near the top of the contenders. The imposing 4
Published 13 February 2018

Britain among world’s worst for traffic jams

Britain has been named among the ten most gridlocked countries in the world with motorists spending 31 hours a year stuck in peak-time traffic.
Published 13 February 2018
Private parking firms are paying public to catch out motorists

Public offered cash to report illegal parking

Rewards of up to £30 are being given to members of the public to administer their own parking tickets under a “shop a motorist” scheme.
Published 13 February 2018
Driver escapes £130 parking penalty for answering call of nature

Driver escapes fine for answering call of nature

A motorist in his eighties had a parking penalty ripped up after arguing that he had the right to park illegally to answer the call of nature.
Published 12 February 2018
Two cars a minute break speed limit outside West Mercia police chief Anthony Bangham’s HQ

Two cars a minute break speed limit

A top officer wants fines for going even 1mph too fast. So what happened when we set up a radar trap on his doorstep?
Published 12 February 2018
Me and My Motor: The cars and career of David Seaman, former Arsenal and England goalkeeper. Sunday Times interview

Me and My Motor: David Seaman

David Seaman, the former Arsenal and England goalkeeper, may have earned himself the nickname “Safe Hands” but the cars he has owned....
Published 09 February 2018
Dodgy parking operators who fine the dead face ban

Dodgy parking operators who fine the dead face ban

New rules will be introduced to ban cowboy parking companies after operators tried to fine a dead person and a woman too short to read parking si
Published 09 February 2018
Big excess won’t cut insurance cost, drivers warned

Big excess won’t cut insurance cost

Insurers have been accused of ripping off motorists by allowing large excesses on car insurance without offering any savings on the premium.
Published 08 February 2018
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Unlimited fines for emissions test cheats

Ccarmakers that cheat emissions tests are being threatened with unlimited fines under anti-pollution rules being drawn up in Westminster.
Published 08 February 2018