The Money4yourMotors blog

Suzuki is celebrating some exciting news from the results of the 2022 What Car? Reliability Survey in which readers report on their car ownership experience from six up to 15 years old. Read More...

Zap-Map, the UK’s No.1 electric vehicle charging app, has released the results of a new survey of EV drivers across the country. Read More...

Expectations among car buyers are almost always met by dealers, but customers remain less happy with the quality of dealer staff, new research has revealed. Every aspect of the buying experience is scrutinised in Autovia's 'Driver Power’ research - drawn from the reports of up to 60,000 participants a year - and dealer staff appear to be the weakest link in an otherwise almost universally satisfying process. Read More...

Myths about 'miserly Scots' and financially cautious retirees have been quelled by revelations in one of the biggest surveys of car buying behaviour ever conducted. According to Autovia, Scottish drivers and retired people are more likely to buy a new car than anyone else. Read More...

December’s car sales list capped off an astonishing year for electric cars. With 9,612 Tesla Model 3s leaving showrooms before Christmas, the - hugely popular American EV outsold the second-place Mini by almost 5000 units, making it the best-selling car of the month for the third time last year. Read More...

Lotus is commemorating the end of production of its Elise, Exige and Evora range of sports cars. Between these three model lines and over the course of 26 years, a total of 51,738 cars came off the production line. Combined, they represent almost half of the total production of Lotus in its 73-year history. In addition, 9,715 sports cars were built for Lotus’ third-party clients, including GM and Tesla. Read More...

Around 700,000 vehicles are known to be written off by insurance companies each year, and the true figure could be even higher. However, according to leading price comparison site Quotezone.co.uk, many drivers are unaware that some cars are written off because the cost of repairing them might be more than the vehicle is worth, and not because they aren’t roadworthy. Read More...

With the Met Office issuing warnings for ice and snow, and the threat of flooding from the Environment Agency this week, 2022 has started with demanding driving conditions across the country. With millions of us making New Year’s resolutions, TyreSafe is advising motorists to check their tyres regularly to reduce the risk of an incident while out on the road. Read More...

GEM Motoring Assist says new measures are needed urgently to help keep older drivers safe on their journeys. The call follows a warning that car driver deaths in the 70 to 79 age group are expected to rise by 40 per cent over the next 20 years. Read More...

With 10 million electric vehicles being driven around the world, a new study has looked at the most expensive places around the world to buy an EV, with Singapore the most costly at £104,530, and Spain the cheapest at just £17,733. The UK is the 22nd cheapest, with an EV costing over £70k less here, than it does in Singapore, but £8,000 more than Spain. Read More...