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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
France launches inquiry into Fiat over diesel emissions

France launches inquiry into Fiat over diesel

The diesel emissions scandal widened as French prosecutors announced the opening of a criminal inquiry into allegations that Fiat Chrysler...
Published 29 March 2017
Electric taxi factory expands into vans

Electric taxi factory expands into vans

Geely, the Chinese car maker, has revealed plans to launch Britain’s first dedicated electric van manufacturing plant in the factory it built...
Published 29 March 2017
Renault diesels ‘are worst polluters’ according to Which? tests

Renault diesels ‘are worst polluters’

Renault diesel cars emit the highest levels of toxic nitrogen oxides of all the big manufacturers and the French company’s recent models...
Published 29 March 2017
Gas-guzzling Germans miss air targets

Gas-guzzling Germans miss air targets

Germany’s love affair with fast cars and big engines has been blamed for an acceleration in greenhouse gas emissions despite the country’s...
Published 29 March 2017
Friends died of gas poisoning in customised car

Friends died of gas poisoning in customised car

Two friends died from carbon monoxide poisoning after sitting in a car that had been modified in a fatal manner, an inquest was told...
Published 29 March 2017
How sat-navs shut down brain’s ability to navigate

How sat-navs shut down brain’s ability to navigate

In 2012 three Japanese tourists in Australia drove their rented car up to its wheel arches on a mudflat and themselves into the annals of...
Published 29 March 2017