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News: 2015 Skoda Superb aims for Audi quality and desirability

Skoda has revealed details of its upcoming third-generation Superb and says it hopes the upmarket redesign will help propel the model to "the higher...
Published 25 December 2014
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News: Don't let unsafe elderly relatives drive, widower...

This is the last photograph of Desreen Brooks, a 33-year-old mother killed by an elderly driver in November 2012, with her son, who narrowly avoided...
Published 23 December 2014
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News: Almost 40% of motorists still displaying tax...

More than two months after paper tax discs were rendered obsolete, two out of five drivers are still displaying it in their cars.
Published 23 December 2014
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Car of the week: Audi Q7

If the modern-day family really does spend as much time as is often claimed mesmerised by smartphones...
Published 22 December 2014
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News: Brabus unveils even more outlandish G63 AMG 6x6...

It has six wheels, a 5.5-litre V8 engine and the sort of styling that makes military-grade vehicles red-cheeked with embarrassment, but German tuning...
Published 22 December 2014
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News: Plans to scrap paper driving licence delayed

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has delayed plans to scrap the paper counterpart driving licence on January 1 after concerns that it...
Published 22 December 2014
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News: Theft of Bond cars baffles German police

German police are investigating whether the thieves who took nine Range Rovers lined up to be used in the new 007 film did it by hacking the vehicles’...
Published 22 December 2014
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How to beat the holiday traffic blackspots

With millions planning to visit family and friends on Tuesday, Dominic Tobin reveals how to escape Britain’s worst congestion blackspots ...
Published 22 December 2014
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News: Volvo unveils 'life-saving' cyclist detection...

Volvo has developed what it calls a groundbreaking system that allows cyclists' helmets to "talk" to nearby Volvo vehicles and warn riders and drivers...
Published 22 December 2014
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Test your knowledge: At what circuit did Driving catch...

Before Google made a name for itself as a leader in self-driving car technology, and before Audi achieved a 149mph machine-driven lap of the Hockenheimring...
Published 20 December 2014
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News: Elderly couple 'close to death' after 13 hours...

An elderly couple are reported to have come “close to suffocation” after believing they had become trapped in their new Mazda3 hatchback without...
Published 19 December 2014
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News: GM, Audi, Jaguar suspend sales in Russia as rouble...

Some of the world's largest automotive manufacturers have suspended deliveries of new vehicles to dealerships in Russia after a collapse in the rouble
Published 19 December 2014