Range Rover and Range Rover Sport series have expanded to include a new family of 3.0 six-cylinder diesel engines with plug-in mild hybrid assistance. There are also some special edition trim versions including SV Autobiography Dynamic Black in the Range Rover. Two new pure electric crossovers have been announced as the industry gears up for a much greener … [Read more...]
Newslines 30 June
About 10M cars are expected to hit UK roads at the weekend and head off for getaways, despite facing £60 FPN fines in Wales. Travel restrictions will be lifted in England but not Wales and the RAC says it expects a spike in breakdown calls and urges motorists to check over their cars this week before travelling. Carbon dioxide emissions from new cars in … [Read more...]
Ghost brokers are defrauding drivers
Ghost brokers are haunting motorists, warns a Welsh business. Gocompare is warning motorists to avoid too good to be true car insurance deals on social media following concerns that fraudsters known as ‘ghost brokers’ are preying on people’s financial worries caused by the Covid pandemic. The warning comes following the arrest at the end of May, of a man … [Read more...]
MoT penalties soar
The MOT test changed in May 2018, with tighter rules around emissions and safety as well as higher fines for drivers caught with an unroadworthy vehicle. A freedom of information request revealed 68,027 have been issued with penalty charges across England and Wales by police since the changes. The Met Police force caught the most drivers (15,772), followed … [Read more...]
Newslines 20 March
Volkswagen has paid out £28.5 B in fines and settlements, and the German carmaker expects costs to add another £2 B, Chief Financial Officer Frank Witter told media. It was caught hiding excessive levels of toxic diesel emissions in 2015, leading to management changes and hundreds of regulatory probes and lawsuits but has so far resisted UK … [Read more...]
Newslines 25 February
Welsh AMs will this summer publish a report on tackling pavement parking by drivers. It follows a year long study into the issue which is causing concern to pedestrians and road safety bodies and is likely to make it a civil offence with a fixed penalty parking fine being considered. The owners of a private track in Mid Wales have been fined £30,000 for … [Read more...]
Seeing red in green zones abroad
The Green-Zones portal has identified the European environmental zones where infringements are most severely punished and unexpectedly denting holiday budgets. Belgium is ranked 10th and 9th among the environmental zones with the highest fines, whose permanent Low-Emission-Zones (LEZ) are located in Antwerp and Brussels. All vehicles, which are not … [Read more...]
Majority of motorists admit regularly speeding
With Google Maps releasing an update that notifies drivers when the speed limit changes, research reveals that nearly 70% of British drivers are already knowingly driving over the speed limit. Speeding is by far the nation’s most common driving offence, with over two million reported offences in 2016. But despite the threat of hefty fines, points on a … [Read more...]
Welsh drivers in top UK rankings for being banned
Wales has some of the worst drivers in Britain with proportionally the highest disqualified for a variety of offences. The highest proportion of the UK’s disqualified drivers can be found in Scotland and Wales according to new data from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). According to the figures, obtained by contact lens retailer Feel … [Read more...]
Yellow box peril of drivers facing fines
With councils outside London and Cardiff wanting additional powers to use cameras to catch drivers who stop in yellow box junctions, RAC research reveals eight in 10 motorists struggle to get through them without stopping. What’s more, almost half (46%) admit they sometimes get stuck in them accidentally. Two-thirds of drivers (67%) say they find … [Read more...]
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