One For The Road: A student car that can cope with long trips
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Glen Disbury is a second-year university student who needs a car that can cope with a regular 400-mile round-trip to see his family. His budget is £3,500.
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Glen Disbury is a second-year university student who needs a car that can cope with a regular 400-mile round-trip to see his family. His budget is £3,500.
05 February 2012 12:00 AM
Sam Vigo's Renault Mégane has died. Although he is 21, the usual student-friendly Ford Ka won't do: he needs space and does motorway miles. He has a budget of £2,000 including insurance.
22 January 2012 12:00 AM
Charles Hooper has a Rover 75 to replace. It must have room for golf clubs and an electric trolley, be automatic and smaller than the 75. He covers just 6,000 miles a year.
19 January 2012 12:00 AM
Getting an electric car right depends on making driving long distances viable. Jamie Merrill goes behind the scenes – and under the bonnet – of a new model.
15 January 2012 12:00 AM
Valerie Checkers paid £800 for a Ford Mondeo, which has gone badly wrong. She needs to replace it with something cheap but reliable and has £500 to spare.
08 January 2012 12:00 AM
Adam Hinton wants to tow his large horsebox. He does 50 miles a day on the school run for his three children, shopping and his commute, and has up to £4,000 to spend.
07 January 2012 12:00 AM
A Chelsea parking attendant claims he has been sacked – for being too nice. But is he just the exception who proves the rule? Rob Hastings gets his notebook and joins a warden on patrol...
05 January 2012 12:00 AM
It's not quite the season for raspberry pie but a small technological charity hopes it might be the time for Raspberry Pi.
11 December 2011 12:00 AM
Jane Ballantyne has arthritis and needs a comfortable car. It must be automatic, economical, have a firm, high driving seat, be compact but have five doors. The budget is £15,000.
08 December 2011 12:00 AM
Traditional planning put cars at the centre of our streets but a radical rethink of how modern cities work could change all that.
04 December 2011 12:00 AM
Robin Lawrence is 42, married, with three young children. He needs to replace his 1999 Volkswagen Passat 1.8T and has £2,000 to spend on a family runaround that will also cope with longer trips to visit relatives.
30 November 2011 12:00 AM
Britain's road and rail networks are to get a multibillion pound upgrade as George Osborne attempts to build his way to economic recovery.
27 November 2011 12:00 AM
Congratulations to Mrs Rosemary Gault, who has passed her driving test at age 70. She has a flexible £4,000 to spend and is not bothered about mileage or age, but most of all needs five seats. Oh yes, the licence is for automatic cars only.
20 November 2011 12:00 AM
Orna Kustow is thinking of replacing her 2007 Renault Grand Scenic for a smaller car but does not want to lose the Scenic's high seating position. Could we suggest a super-mini or small family car?
13 November 2011 12:00 AM
Rob Knight wants to economise from two cars to one. It will have to fit three teenagers in comfort, plus be cheap to run and have decent boot space. Ideally he does not want a people carrier or a 4x4. His budget is up to £15,000.