Buying or leasing your company car: important things to consider
So you need a new car for your business. But do you buy it outright or lease it from a dealer? Leasing is where the company makes fixed payments every month to rent a vehicle or equipment – without ever owning the vehicle or tools. Buying, meanwhile, refers to owning...
GENUINE ON-THE-BUTTON CARS TEMPT BUYERS AT MPC’S AUTUMN SALE
Runcorn – Manor Park Classics’ enduring recipe of frequent sales at its Cheshire base, with a diverse mix of good-quality sub £100k vehicles, reeled in the usual healthy mix of in-person, online and telephone bidders at its Autumn sale. Illustrating buyers’ growing...
Benefits of being a self-employed taxi driver in the UK
For as long as people need to get from one place to another, there will always be demand for taxi drivers. For those who are built to spend hours behind the wheel, ferrying passengers from one part of town to another, it’s a respectable way to earn a living. In an age...
Jab to Drive?
All I want to do is drive a Dacia Duster. I’m just an old motoring hack with a clean driving licence and some column inches to fill. My medical status or history should not come into it. Renault UK, the organisers of a driving event disagree. First they enticed me...
Jimmy Doherty’s Dream Builds on Wheels on Quest and Discovery+
All over the country, an army of ordinary people are turning everyday vehicles into extraordinary campervans; converting cars, vans, buses and trucks into awesome getaway homes and holiday pads on wheels to explore the great outdoors. Now, Jimmy Doherty wants in on...
2021 Mini Electric Review
Are you charged up for ‘The Electric Job’? If not, move on because this Mini is not all it seems. Yes it looks a cheeky chappy, yes the drive will be familiar and yes it’s quick, but there’s no exhaust pipe, the grill is blanked out, and there are bright yellow ‘e’...
Honda CR-V Hybrid Review
We owned a second-generation Honda CR-V for over decade and there must be a very good reason we kept it that long. Although there isn’t any single cause for keeping it that I can recall, potentially it was more a case of… well there was no reason to replace it. And...
007 Competition – Win a Chance to Be James Bond For the Day with Dick Lovett
Ever dreamed of driving around in 007 style, with a fast car and suited to the nines? Well now is your chance! In celebration of the 25th film in the Bond franchise, Dick Lovett is offering one lucky entrant the chance to spend a day in the shoes of the MI6 agent....
Ford Puma ST Review
The Ford Puma ST can be thought of as a more family-friendly version of the pocket-rocket Ford Fiesta ST – just about the best small hot hatch you can currently buy. That bodes well doesn’t it? Especially as it gets pretty much the same drivetrain with 1.5-litre...
A Lower Drink-Drive Limit Doesn’t Reduce Crashes says ABD
Annual calls for the drink-drive limit to be reduced from 0.08% blood alcohol content (BAC) to 0.05% are unsupported by the evidence and data. In December 2014 Scotland lowered the BAC limit to 0.05% in line with EU countries which have a 0.05% limit or lower. A...
Ford Mustang Mach-E Review
There’s a number of firsts here. This is the first mass-market car-maker’s first fully electric vehicle. It’s also the first dedicated electric car from Ford rather than the ‘electric version’ of a regular combustion-engined car. Plus the first electric car to bear...
Let Road Users Decide on the Future of Road Transport says ABD
The Alliance of British Drivers totally backs the recommendation in the recent FairFuelUK All Party Parliamentary Group for UK Motorists and Road Hauliers report [Ref.1], to let drivers decide for themselves how to use Britain's roads. Whilst government is obliged to...
Vauxhall Mokka Review
Forget the old Vauxhall Mokka, that was a rebadged Chevrolet Trax/Buick Encore which were built at the old Daewoo factory in South Korea. It was a competent enough car, but a bit mumsy. In 2019 Vauxhall, or rather its parent company, Opel (having previously divorced...
Range Rover Velar P400e PHEV Review
The Range Rover Velar is the best looking of the current range of luxury roving SUVs. The baby Evoque even adopted most of the Velar’s styling cues in its update a couple of years ago, but the Velar still looks fresh and is arguably more futuristic and sleeker than...
Haynes launches AutoFix
Haynes announces AutoFix, its most advanced online repair tool yet for motoring DIY tasks. This all-new digital product firmly debunks the myth that you can’t work on modern cars, and contains more features, and is more technically advanced than any other product in...
BMW 420i M Sport Coupe Review
Let’s tackle that controversial grille first – you either hate it or you… reckon it’s not so bad. I’m in the latter camp, especially after spending a few days with the car, and noting that the UK number plate bisecting it, makes it far less overt and in-yer-face. Some...
Carflation explained by Moneybarn
New research by Moneybarn reveals how new cars have become increasingly unaffordable, with prices rocketing up to five times faster than wages over the past decade. The finance company's Carflation study has found that some car prices have more than doubled since...
The Car Years is back on ITV 2
Free Car Mag adore this programme and are jolly glad that it is back for another instalment. It features Vicki Butler Henderson (Fifth Gear, Top Gear) and Alex Riley (The One Show, The Classic Car Show) return to champion the very best cars released from a moment in...
Honda S800 where Brown Car Guy meets a hero
I’ve been waiting to drive a Honda S800 for over 35 years, ever since I saw it in dealership in London as a teenager. It was a Japanese MGB, miniscule yet maverick, mini yet clearly mighty. That’s down to the motorcycle derived engine. A 791cc four-cylinder producing...
Kia Picanto Driven
The current Kia Picanto has been around since 2017, but last year it received a facelift and tweaks to its drivetrain. What we have here on test is a 1.0-litre 3-cylinder car with just 66bhp, claimed to be capable of 100mph (though you'd need to be going downhill,...
