A car dealer has been jailed for fraud and ordered to pay £390,000 after tricking customers into overpaying for vehicles by reducing their mileage. The 26 year old car dealer is thought to have pocketed over £100,000 by illegally tampering with the vehicles’ odometers and forging the associated documents in order to sell the vehicles at […]
Naturally, as you can imagine, as part of my day-to-day operations I speak to prospective clients concerning a number of driving related topics. Recently I have been asked, on a number of occasions, the following question: “Will you teach me the actual driving test routes?”. Now then, while I do believe that covering some of […]
Naturally, when looking to purchase a car we all want to drive away with the absolute best deal possible. This is where the art of haggling comes in handy..! It may not come easy to many, but when it comes to saving a few pounds it is certainly worth a good try! I have stumbled […]
A new ‘traffic-calming’ scheme through the village of Arnprior in Scotland, has not gone down well with locals. Part of the measures consist of a set of wiggly white lines in the middle of a road which match up with red indentations that have been painted at the roadside with the intention to slow vehicles down. Some […]
As the headline suggests, there are a number of hurdles to be overcome before self-parking cars become a common sight on Britain’s roads. As I mentioned in a recent blog post concerning the development of such technology, current UK law forbids drivers from leaving the vehicle while the engine is running. Current self-parking technology requires the […]
The headline say’s it all really! Unfortunately for one particular coach driver who followed the directions given to him by his Sat Nav, he unintentionally found himself down a country lane and ultimately ended up with his coach stuck in the mud. To make matters worse, the coach was packed with party of guests on route to […]
Research by the Road Safety Foundation has found that motorists are more likely to be involved in a crash whilst travelling on single carriageway A-roads than on a motorway. Interestingly, the East Midlands has emerged as the most dangerous region, with the risk of death and serious injury being a shocking 63 per cent higher than the […]
Measures aimed at lowering motoring costs have been announced by the government. One such measure is to freeze the current maximum cost for an MOT test for a car at £54.85 until 2015. In addition to this, there looks to be a big crack down on the current ‘compensation culture’ for claims such as whiplash. […]
With the darker evenings of winter time fast approaching, cyclists are strongly advised to take appropriate precautions in order to make themselves easier to see. With the clocks set to wind back by an hour this Sunday, darkness during the commute home of an evening makes collisions involving cyclists statistically more highly likely. A survey carried […]
That’s right folks – you did read the headline correctly..! The newly developed technology allows the driver to actually get out of the vehicle while the car parks itself. To be honest I am a little torn on this one… Ultimately such technology could be very useful; particularly for disabled people or older people. Whilst I am […]