The cost of everything is only going one way. https://www.playlikemum.com/ have done the sums for us and zeroing in on cars and transportation is a depressing read. Price of a car 2011 average cost: £15,049.50 2017 average cost: £18,000.00 2021 average cost: £23,000.00 6-year change: 27.8% 10-year change: 52.8% A car can be very handy
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The UK must move away from “20th century thinking centred around private vehicle ownership” and towards shared mobility, Transport Minister Trudy Harrison MP has said. In that case Free Car Mag are going to build a time machine… Anyway, she seems nice. Here is the proof that the Government hate motorists, personal mobility and freedom.
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Free Car Mag have no idea how it really works, all we know is that @HiKennys spends the summer going to car shows, in the north, taking pictures, making funny comments and then collating a top ten that we can judge. Anyway we borrowed a Renault Twingo from 1993 and parked it up in Paris
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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 with the possibility of having
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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 consult haulage, bus, rail, and airline companies over major changes, no government has ever
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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 2011, whereas earnings have risen by one fifth over the same period. The
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The Lotus Driving Academy has announced it will reopen its driver training programme at Hethel on the 7th August. In collaboration with Lotus Cars, The Lotus Driving Academy (LDA) has instigated a number of robust measures and controls to allow the popular driving training to reopen at the test track at the heart of Lotus’
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Drive 4 Wildlife completes the second phase of the East African conservation trip with the personal delivery of the animal ambulance. Brothers Aaron, Tyler and Cameron Whitnall, accompanied with their life long friend Redmond Boulton raised over £50,000 to make their dream of African wildlife conservation into a reality. In February 2019, they drove 4,500km
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CitNOW has revealed the top automotive videos in 2019 at its fifth annual Video Awards ceremony. A record 1,676 high-quality videos were entered in 2019, with the winners announced at the awards ceremony at the Hard Rock Hotel in London on 14th January. The winner of the illustrious ‘Best Overall CitNOW’ award came from Lookers
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Want to do something good? You could take Stuart as a fantastic example. “Last years car is a 2008 4.2ltr Jaguar XK, 98,000 miles. All I have done is fit a 4 pipe sport exhaust. I had it wrapped in SILK CUT livery but to raise funds I let the public and businesses cover it
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A new compact and self-contained cube simulator, powerful enough to validate driver assistance and autonomous technologies in today’s vehicles, has been unveiled by Ansible Motion Limited. Thanks to its compact footprint and sophisticated computational architecture, the new Theta C driving simulator offers OEMs, Tier 1s, research institutes and industry bodies a more immersive and car-like,
Read More: First self-contained engineering-class driving simulator unveiled, capable of validating the latest automotive megatrends