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For those needing to be tempted into getting a new car, Korean carmaker SsangYong is offering a triple offer of five years 0% finance, five years free servicing, and a five year warranty. The 250,000 mile/ five year warranty is available on all models, including LCV models, while the five year service offer has been [...]

June 30th, 2009

Customers at participating Ford dealers can continue to collect Nectar points after the company extended its contract in a multi-year deal with Nectar, the UK’s largest loyalty card programme. Since 2003, customers have been able to collect points on routine servicing, non-warranty repairs and MoTs, and Ford are currently the only. Nigel Sharp, Ford of [...]

June 30th, 2009

The latest research from Vauxhall has revealed that 99% of UK car owners give no thought to hiding away their precious car keys from prying eyes; yet 52% are more concerned about locking away their laptop! Car thefts at home cost the country £39.5million during 2008, as over 10,000 cars were stolen off UK driveways [...]

June 30th, 2009

More than six million (13%) British motorists narrowly escaped adding to the thousands of fatigue related road accidents that occur each year, after admitting they’d fallen into a slumber while driving in the last twelve months. The research from Kwik-Fit found that 10% of motorists felt ‘drowsy whilst driving’ and a further 3% said they’d [...]

June 29th, 2009

Perhaps not often asked is the question “What would you get if you crossed a Aston Martin DB9 and a Toyota iQ?” yet this is the question that appears to only to have been asked at the Gaydon-based luxury carmarker but also answered! …and no it is not April first. Dubbed the ‘Cygnet’ the new [...]

June 29th, 2009

Kia has some great offers across the popular Cee’d range (rated four and a half stars on RoadTestReports.co.uk). Save up to an incredible £2,445 across the range and still benefit from Kia’s very generous seven year warranty Forget paying out £11, 445, the cee’d 1.4 S is now available from only £8,995 OTR, saving £2,450 [...]

June 26th, 2009

Award-winning EfficientDynamics technologies spawn most fuel efficient and cleanest BMW 3 Series ever. With just £35 Vehicle Excise Duty to pay with 13 per cent benefit-in-kind ranking, the BMW 316D ES Saloon, available to buy now, is bound to prove popular with both business and private customers. June 2009 heralds the launch of the most [...]

June 26th, 2009

Women are risking being stranded due to poor knowledge of car care, the latest research has shown. A survey of 2,009 motorists conducted o behalf of car insurance company, Churchill shows that whilst well over a quarter of men (28 per cent) consider themselves to be an ‘expert’, only one in twenty women (5 per [...]

June 26th, 2009

One of the greenest petrol cars available on the market, the Alto is the epitome of the budget-level city car. Ideally suited to small families or commuters, the Alto offers its nearest competitors something to worry about. With a good basic specification even on the entry level model, the Alto is a very competitively priced [...]

June 25th, 2009

The number of people killed in road accidents fell by 14 per cent in 2008, the latest statistics from the Department for Transport (DfT) show. Compared to 2007, there were 407 less deaths from road accidents last year than in 2007. The number of road casualties also dropped by 7 per cent to 231,000 in [...]

June 25th, 2009