Cars evolve over time, don’t they? This usually happens so slowly that we barely even notice it. Until I recently bought my own retro vehicle it had been years since I had used a wind down window, seen an old […]
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08, 2012
Category Archives: Reports and Surveys
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08, 2012
Car Insurance Premiums Keep on Rising and Janice Needs a Break
Car insurance premiums keep rising, according to a report. In fact, according to the official figures the average policy costs over £1,000 a year. Can this be true? I don’t doubt the good people at AA Insurance who carried out […]
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07, 2012
Too Young to Drive?
If you have ever had a car crash then when did it happen? I only ask because there is a fair chance that it came in the first 6 months after you passed your driving test. A new report which […]
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07, 2012
More UK Gardens Turn into Parking Spaces
What do you have in your front garden? Flowers or a Ford? Rhododendrons or a Rover? It seems that more and more Brits are ripping up their lawns and paving over their garden to give themselves somewhere to park their […]
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07, 2012
Who Are the Worst Drivers Around?
I seem to recall from my past in the heady world of car insurance that certain professions either attract a loaded premium or simply can’t be insured at all. My memory is a bit hazy on the subject but I […]
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05, 2012
Mobile Phones: As Staggering as Doughnuts with Cream in the Middle
It seems that a week doesn’t go by without us being told about the dangerous things which we need to avoid doing while driving. First it was drinking, then taking drugs, then eating, then cutting our toenails. Thankfully the latest […]
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05, 2012
From A to B with a Bit of Fun
I was saddened to read a piece of motoring news today. Mainly because it destroyed a little theory I had been building up in recent times. My idea started when I saw how drivers in a lot of foreign countries […]
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05, 2012
Do You Drive and Eat?
Any research done by the American Journal of Preventive Medicines has got to be worth a look, hasn’t it? In this case, their latest study has looked at the link between commuting long distances to work and being overweight. The […]
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05, 2012
Do Cyclists Jump Red Lights?
I can proudly say that I have never knowingly jumped a red light in my life. I may have skipped through a few when I didn’t even notice the traffic lights but I don’t believe that makes me a bad […]
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05, 2012
Are the UK’s Motorways Safe for 80mph?
What do you think of the plan to increase the motorway speed limit to 80mph? Maybe you already do 80mph or – gasp –more on a regular basis. If this is the case then you will want to see what […]
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05, 2012
Smart Phones Cause Car Crashes and Sudoku Might Too
There are times when I am glad to be free of the shackles of technological dependence, and today is one of them. I have a mobile phone but it is not exactly of the cutting edge variety. Never mind stuff […]
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05, 2012
Do You Get the MPG You Expect?
I didn’t want to do it, I really didn’t. My idea was to let a week go past without mentioning the price of petrol but I can’t. It seems that every day that goes by we hear more bad news […]
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04, 2012
Don’t Eat and Drink
You learn something new every day, don’t you? I have always been proud of never having drunk and then driven my car, and yet it turns out I am even a big health hazard because of my chocolate munching habits. […]
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04, 2012
Steep Insurance Charges? Surely Not!
I used to work in a car insurance company. It’s not the worst thing I could have done I suppose but I still feel kind of bad about it. You see, I could view firsthand all of the unnecessary charges […]