Someone once said that if you’re in a group being chased by a lion, you don't need to run faster than the lion; you just need to run faster than the others in the group. A similar principle applies to ...

Electric cars are similar to combustion-powered cars in some ways, but very different in others. One key difference is an electric car’s regenerative braking system, which uses the electric motor to ...

When Take That sang “you can have it all” in their 2007 hit single “Shine”, they might as well have been singing about the Mercedes GLC because it’s available with mild hybrid petrol and diesel power, ...

It’s late on a wet and windy evening and you’re driving home along an unlit country lane. You hear a thud and then the car starts to pull strongly to one side. You’ve hit a pothole and it’s punctured ...

Vehicles fitted with keyless entry and start systems are being targeted by thieves. Criminals using specialist tools can capture a key’s signal and relay it to another device next to the car, allowing ...

Official testing of electric car ranges is completely unrepresentative of real-world conditions, potentially leaving drivers disappointed and with insufficient mileage, What Car? testing has revealed.

As Albert Einstein once said, "everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler". This might have been the philosophy in the minds of the team at Kia when it decided to streamline the ...

Modern cruise control is an electronic system that controls the speed your car travels at. Once you’ve set it, the car will carry on driving at the speed selected without you needing to have your foot ...

Thousands of cars are recalled in the UK each year for all sorts of safety issues, ranging from high CO2 emissions to a potential fire risk. What should you do if your car is recalled and should you ...

Electric car drivers will be hit with a pay-per-mile tax as part of a number of economic reforms to be announced in the winter Budget on 26 November. The pay-per-mile plans, which have been confirmed ...

If you’ve bought a new car in the past few years, you might be familiar with the term ‘luxury car tax’, or as it’s more formally known, the expensive car Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) supplement. But it’s ...

The C1 is designed as a city car, so look for damage to alloy wheels (if it has them) for any kerb damage. Look also for scrapes or dents to bumpers and body panels, because these maybe costly ...