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Don’t pay the penalty during Euros

IAM RoadSmart has warned drivers to play it safe when it comes to drinking during the UEFA Euro 2016 Championships. The tournament kicks off tomorrow and the chances of football […]

Volvo sees road ahead with TomTom

Volvo Cars has selected TomTom as the provider of location and navigation content and services for its new infotainment platform. From 2019, Volvo customers across the globe, across all carlines […]

Blue Square adopts in-car technology

Retail marketing agency Blue Square has taken delivery of more than 100 SEAT Leon hatchbacks with in-car technology tailored specifically to improve efficiency of its field sales team. The 129 […]

Big plans for small business service

Covéa Insurance has underlined its commitment enhancing its small business proposition by appointing a new small business underwriting manager. Siddharth Gulati has joined from AIG, where he was business manager […]

Musk’s 2020 vision for Apple cars

Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes Apple will have a slice of the electric car market by 2020. At a press conference last week he predicted Apple would provide competition for […]

Enquiries to BEN surge 81%

Enquiries to BEN, the charity dedicated to people within the automotive industry and their families, rose by a staggering 81% during 2015/6. Its annual report found that more than 2,700 […]

Vans are vital for 860 million parcels

The van and its driver are vital to the UK economy with more than 4 million of them on the road according to the FTA Logistics Report 2016, which shows […]

UK spends £21.1 billion on servicing and repair

UK motorists spend a collective £21.1 billion a year on servicing and repair, according to a new report published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The […]

Fuel prices drive down running costs

A fall in fuel prices has led to a 22% fall in the average price of running a car, according to research from Sainsbury’s Bank. It found that the average […]

APIL disputes £3bn fraud figure

The government has been urged to commission independent research into the cost of insurance fraud, with personal injury lawyers disputing the £3bn figure put forward by a special taskforce. The […]

Teenager convicted of insurance fraud

A teenager from Walsall has been jailed a year for selling fake motor insurance. An investigation by the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) found that 19-year-old Azeem Mahmood Hussain was […]

Fiat discovers glitch in 16,000 EVs

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is recalling more than 16,000 Fiat 500e electric cars after discovering a software glitch. It’s found that software errors could cause the vehicles’ control systems to […]