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If you spend more buying your car than the price of a house you may well be unconcerned by day-to-day running costs, but according to car valuation specialists Parkers Guides, the owner of a £300,000-plus Maybach 62 will in their first year of ownership lose an eye-watering £127,000 in depreciation. Parkers based its calculations on a...

The Aston Martin Cygnet, a concept city car that shares its running gear with the Toyota iQ, has taken another step towards production amid speculation that the finished article could be a battery-powered electric vehicle. The prototype features a striking re-working of the stock iQ, with modified bodywork and luxury interior, but little...

A 7.5-mile section of road in east London, which is to be permanently monitored by average-speed cameras, is likely to earn the enviable reputation of being the only road in Britain on which speeding is not endemic. Average-speed cameras work by capturing the details of a vehicle at numerous points and then calculating its average speed...

An eight-mile bicycle wheelie completed this week by Aaron Stannage, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire is likely to earn the 14-year-old a place in the record books. It will take Guinness World Records officials a few weeks to determine whether Aaron has established a new record, but it is thought that this is the first time anyone had...

A new study by the University of Oxford predicts that the number of cars on the world’s roads in twenty years will double to 2 billion, but that electric vehicles will account for only a small percentage of the overall fleet in the medium to long-term. The study suggests that car companies are raising false hopes of emission-free motoring...

With much of the talk at this week’s Detroit Motor Show focused on electric-only vehicles, the new Volkswagen Compact Coupe Concept gave a tantalising glimpse of the performance and fuel efficiency possible from a hybrid car driven by a petrol engine working in tandem with a battery-powered electric motor. Sub 100g/km motoring The VW...

If you can overlook its three-wheel configuration, its lack of a conventional steering wheel and the absence of any doors then the £4,000 BugE on display this week at the Detroit Motor Show is a good candidate for the title of cheapest electric car in the world. There is now a range of electric cars on sale that is indistinguishable in...

With snowy conditions on British roads a continuing challenge for many motorists, a Korean car manufacturer has this week launched an electric car designed to tackle most conditions on land and water. CT&T is well placed to build the Multi Amphibious Vehicle – it claims to have more electric vehicle manufacturing capacity than any of...

A kit that transforms any bicycle into a caterpillar track-driven snow bike may become a useful piece of kit for British cyclists if the weather we have experienced this month becomes an annual event. The KtraK kit costs around £350 and is popular in mountain resorts in America and Canada. The kit replaces the front wheel with a ski bade...

Many of Britain’s commuter cyclists are continuing to ride to work throughout the cold snap, but as freshly fallen snow begins to turn to slush, which can add to the slipperiness of underlying ice, cyclists are being urged to take extra care. Cyclists show all the grit Whilst cyclists themselves have not been short on grit this winter,...