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Car scrapping is a booming business, and Lord Mandelson has duly addressed its importance, by announcing an investment of a total of £400 million to the industry as an extension to the scrappage scheme is to become a much needed reality. The new phase of the scheme will continue till February 2010. This will allow car owners . . . → Read More: Car scrappage extended The flagging motor industry is talking with the Government in hopes that they can get the scrappage scheme continued into February 2010, a task that would require about £150m more from Mr Browns pocket. The scheme was started on May 18th, at which point the Government said it would run into February or until their funding ran . . . → Read More: Motor industry wants scrappage extension Castrol Oil Company is taking a step forward in their advertising campaign by offering individualized billboard messages to passing motorists. The idea is simple a camera reads passing vehicle registrations sending the information to the billboard which will then light up and tell the driver that Castrol oil is the top pick for their vehicle. Castrol . . . → Read More: Do you want billboards spying on your car? Have you ever driven past a car broken down by the side of the road with the bonnet up and a rather flustered person looking into the engine? The answer to this question is most likely to be yes. Now think back to the last time you saw someone broken down and try to remember what your first . . . → Read More: Top tips for choosing a breakdown cover policy Honest John, an independent authority on cars, and contributor to the Telegraph, has released a public application to the iPhone app store. This is the first free app in the UK that will deliver videos and road tests to iPhone users. Honest John is known well to those who have visited his website as an authoritative source . . . → Read More: Honest John on iPhone to help car buyers A move by Labour aimed at slashing the costs of a legal defense that innocent motorists would be allowed to claim back once they have made a successful defense against motoring offences such as speeding is drawing fire from senior legal officials. Legal experts say that the new regulations that become law next month will push . . . → Read More: New rule will leave motorists defenseless to prosecution About 40% of all UK motorists get seriously distracted on a regular basis while driving according to the most recent RAC Report on Motoring. Those who are younger between the ages of 17 to 24 are the most likely to get pre-occupied, about 56% admitting that they get seriously distracted while driving. Texting was the most frequent . . . → Read More: UK motorists are seriously distracted While many residents on a Shrewsbury estate have already watched their vehicles get towed after the cares were clamped by the DVLA, one man, David Evans, has his own plan to prevent a tow truck from taking his beloved Commer Van. Evans made a visit to the DVLA in Harlescott to discuss the fact that he felt . . . → Read More: Man sleeps in van to beat DVLA tow truck The government is planning to tighten laws around those who drive without auto insurance by making it illegal to own a registered vehicle that is not insured even if the vehicle is not used according to transport ministers. Those who are caught failing to follow the new legislation could face fines up to £1,000 along with the . . . → Read More: New uninsured car owners clampdown on the way According to the latest annual report from the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) the government organisation has made major changes to the way it secures its information. The organisation now has information on well over 40 million drivers and nearly 35 million individual vehicles and makes nearly 112 million transactions annually. A few weeks ago a national . . . → Read More: The DVLA say that have made big changes to security |
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