A fresh sprinkling of statistics suggest we’ll be in our cars less than ever this Christmas. Simon Hacker unwraps the truth 1 Yes, it’s that time of year again when we hear a lot of traffic-based lyrics. Chrissie Hynde will warn you that two thousand miles is no commute for anyone who’s had one mince pie […]
Unreachable fuel economy figures have been hitting the headlines recently, but a group of dedicated hypermilers met up last month to prove that it can be done in the annual MPG Marathon. John Kendall reports. What’s the point of trying to improve on a car’s official EU combined fuel consumption figure, when we know […]
As legislation comes into force to ban in-car smoking with children on board, Simon Hacker asks how seriously any of us take the rules of the road 1 Itís been a long time coming, but earlier this month, England banned drivers from smoking with children on board, the only get-out being a roofless car. The ban was […]
Living where he does in rural Herefordshire, Rich James might well be expected to clock up the miles in his car. But more than 450,000 miles, and in a 60-plate Volkswagen Touran that’s not yet five years old? That’s a phenomenal tally. So it’s unsurprising to learn that Rich is a private hire taxi driver, […]
How much fuel is wasted when you are stuck in traffic? INRIX, an organisation that specialises in traffic management and the connected car, has worked out that in the UK, almost 70 per cent of us use the car to commute during peak times, representing 124 hours stuck in gridlock each year – the equivalent […]
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