The days when you could break into a car with a coat hanger might be long gone, but according to the DVLA*, 61,343 vehicles reported stolen in 2024. Although this is a 6% reduction on the previous ...

If there was one thing that Marty McFly was unlikely to see when travelling from 1985 to 2015 in Back to the Future Part II, it was a modern equivalent of Doc Brown’s time machine. However, if he’d ...

Paint protection treatment is a common optional extra offered by dealers to people buying a new car. It’s essentially an invisible coating applied over the top of the car’s paintwork and serves as a ...

Official testing of electric car ranges is completely unrepresentative of real-world conditions, potentially leaving drivers disappointed and with insufficient mileage, What Car? testing has revealed.

Modern cruise control is an electronic system that controls the speed your car travels at. Once you’ve set it, the car will carry on driving at the speed selected without you needing to have your foot ...

Remember beach buggies? With no doors, and only a rudimentary roof, if any at all, they were a hit among fun-loving sun worshippers wherever the sea met the sand. And now they’re back. Well, kind of.

Unpleasant lingering odours inside your car can be caused by all kinds of things, such as a family pet or a previous owner who smoked. So what is the best way to eradicate an unwanted stench and leave ...

There's a common perception that electric cars are kinder to the environment than regular petrol and diesel models, because they don’t run on fossil fuels and don’t put out any CO2 – the rising level ...

The Jaguar X-type was launched in 2001 and was based on the third-generation Ford Mondeo. An estate model joined the saloon in 2004, with Jaguar ending production of both in 2009. It was offered with ...

The C1 is designed as a city car, so look for damage to alloy wheels (if it has them) for any kerb damage. Look also for scrapes or dents to bumpers and body panels, because these maybe costly ...

It’s late on a wet and windy evening and you’re driving home along an unlit country lane. You hear a thud and then the car starts to pull strongly to one side. You’ve hit a pothole and it’s punctured ...

When Take That sang “you can have it all” in their 2007 hit single “Shine”, they might as well have been singing about the Mercedes GLC because it’s available with mild hybrid petrol and diesel power, ...