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What are you driving at? Motorists left baffled by modern dashboards

If women can’t read maps and men always lose their keys, there is at least one aspect about driving that unites the sexes: neither has a clue when it comes to identifying dashboard warning lights.

Daimler takes a stake in Aston Martin

Aston Martin, the 100-year-old company whose cars are a favourite of James Bond and the Royal Family, is to join forces with Mercedes' owner Daimler.

Toddler buys Austin Healey vintage car on eBay using dad's smartphone

Sorella Stoute's father didn't realise she had spent $225 on 1962 Sprite until he received an email from the auction site

New car sales leap again as recovery accelerates

New car sales rose by 13.4 per cent in June in the latest sign that the recovery is gathering pace.

Parents are not as good as professional driving instructors

Learn to drive with your parents and be driven crazy

Half of the teenagers polled were worried about being shouted at

UK defies European car sales downturn

UK drivers are still splashing out on new vehicles but Europe's car market suffered its worst May for 20 years.

Ex Ford chairman, Joe Greenwell, to lead investment push

Up to £3m is to be spent trying to attract investment into the UK automotive industry, the Government will announce today. An Automotive Investment Organisation is to be set up, led by the former Ford chairman Joe Greenwell.

Lotus ready for pole position

Loss-making F1 team is rumoured to have a new investor, reports Mark Leftly

Speed cameras slash road deaths by more than a quarter, study finds

RAC data finds 800 more people would be killed or seriously injured each year without cameras

Easy financing helps car sales return to 2007 levels

Car sales returned to pre-recession levels last month as consumers took advantage of special offers and shifted increasingly to more energy-efficient vehicles.

Highway safety drive – or just the latest ministerial car crash?

Campaigners tell Jonathan Brown tell why new penalties for road-hogging and tailgating will not work

Motoring: Sir Alan Sugar says he’s still Rolls-ing in it after downsizing

Keen viewers of the latest series of The Apprentice could be forgiven for thinking that Sir Alan Sugar’s fortune is shrinking. The tycoon, who made his pile from Amstrad but is arguably more of a TV celebrity than high-flying businessman today, seems to have traded his £300,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom in for a cheaper model.

Fiat driven by Chrysler speculation

Speculation that Fiat was close to a long-awaited deal to buy the remainder of America's Chysler drove up the Italian car manufacturer's shares yesterday, as traders looked forward to a potential public offering in the US by the combined business.

Plea to Fiat not to abandon Italy

The Italian Industry Minister, Flavio Zanonato, has asked Fiat to stay in Italy following its planned merger with Chrysler, which has led labour unions to fear that the car maker plans to move its headquarters to the United States.

John Lennon's 1965 Ferrari 330GT 2+2

Ticket to ride? Bonhams to sell John Lennon's first car - a 1965 Ferrari

The car that gave John Lennon his ticket to ride is to go under the hammer. The Beatle bought his first ever vehicle, a 1965 Ferrari 330GT Coupé, on the day he passed his driving test.

 

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