The RAC is expecting a record 37.5 million getaway journeys home for Christmas to be made this year in the run up to the big day.
It’s predicting the busiest Saturday getaway of any year since we first started recording drivers’ festive plans, with Christmas Eve likely to see the highest volumes of leisure traffic since COVID.
Latest figures show Transport for Wales continue our improvement journey as more services are running on time across the Wales and Borders network.
The Office of Rail and Road’s quarterly figures for July to September shows TfW had the biggest improvement in punctuality of all UK train operators, with a 4.9 percentage point increase to 84.1%.
In November, the Western European passenger vehicle market grew for a fifth consecutive month.
Sales were up nearly 2% YoY, with a total of circa 950k units. YTD sales are up over 1% compared to the same period in 2024, at 10.7 million units.
The new SEAT Ibiza and SEAT Arona will appear on the European market in January.
The new versions come with ‘refreshed design, updated interiors, a choice of efficient TSI engines, enhanced standard equipment and advanced safety features’.
The average CO₂ emissions of a new fleet vehicle has dropped 25% since 2022,
Diesel vehicles now represent less than a quarter of new fleet orders, compared with nearly half two years ago, battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have increased their share across every industry, more than doubling in most cases and Hybrid and plug-in hybrid shares have remained broadly stable, suggesting a gradual but decisive shift towards more sustainable practice.
