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There's a new Chinese electric car brand that's coming to the UK next year - and one of its first models is a dinky city runaround. EV start-up Leapmotor will begin selling cars in nine European countries from September, having 完全にするd a 共同の 投機・賭ける with Vauxhall's parent company. It will then enter the UK market in March 2025. Leapmotor will 申し込む／申し出 two 殴打／砲列 models from 開始する，打ち上げる - the C10 SUV and the diminutive T03 (pictured), which could become Britain's cheapest EV. It will also become the 最新の example of a Chinese EV brand plotting to 製造（する） cars in Europe.

When is the best time of year to sell your car to 保証（人） you get the best price? A new 熟考する／考慮する based on the 容積／容量 of sales and 普通の／平均（する） prices for each of the major 乗り物 types - 含むing hatchbacks, saloons and 転換できるs - 否定するs the age-old belief that the hotter months are 一般に the best time to sell a car. But what if you need to part ways with your モーター 権利 now? We 明らかにする／漏らす which models are selling fastest this month...

With the second-手渡す car market にわか景気ing 権利 now, can you really count on getting your 手渡すs on a solid and reliable used モーター? In the 事例／患者 of the Ford Fiesta (pictured 最高の，を越す left) - Britain's most 貿易（する）d second-手渡す 乗り物 in the first three months of the year - the chances are you'll get a pretty dependable 乗り物. That's によれば a new piece of 研究 by 延長するd warranty provider, Warrantywise, which has analysed its own data to give a reliability 率ing for the 10 most popular second-手渡す models in the UK in 2024. Is your car on the 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）? And if so, how 井戸／弁護士席 does it fare?

If you 運動 a 特に big car, you could be 罰金d for parking in some public car parks. That's because five 地元の 会議s have introduced length 制限s on 乗り物s using their parking 施設s, with most setting a 限界 at 5 metres, which is shorter than a 範囲 Rover and Mercedes-Benz S-Class. And more than nine in ten 会議s have said they have no 意向 of making their parking bays bigger to 融通する today's much larger 乗り物s, which are said to be growing 1cm wider every two years.

The 最新の iteration of Aston's most affordable sports car now （犯罪の）一味s in at a whopping £165,000. It means the Vantage is 近づくing a 類似の pricing ballpark as the Ferrari Roma. But is it as good? We travelled to Spain for the 公式の／役人 開始する，打ち上げる to find out...

The 政府 has 開始する，打ち上げるd a call for 証拠 to gather 見解（をとる）s on how classic and historic cars can be 保存するd for 未来 世代s. You can give 証拠 on how historic, classic, rebuilt and electronically 変えるd 乗り物s are 登録（する）d with the DVLA. The call for 証拠 opened 9 May and will run for eight weeks until 4 July 2024.

急落するing 消費者 appetite for 殴打／砲列-力／強力にするd cars has 誘発する／引き起こすd some of Ford's 競争相手s to 発表する the 延長するd life cycle of some of its popular 燃焼 engine モーターs in 最近の weeks. However, Ford Europe's boss has said there will be no stay of 死刑執行 for the 焦点（を合わせる） hatchback - a 主要な支え on Britain's roads since 1998 which is 予定 to be culled next year. It comes after the US 自動車 巨大（な） ended 生産／産物 of Fiesta in July, which is the most popular 乗客 car on Britain's roads today.

より小数の than one in six new EVs bought last month were 購入（する）d by the general public as 需要・要求する for 殴打／砲列-力／強力にするd cars remains in freefall. And this 縮むing appetite for EVs means the UK 自動推進の 部門 has been 軍隊d to 改訂する its sales 予測（する）s for 2024, downgrading electric car market 株 to より小数の than one in five new cars (19.8%). Worryingly for 製造業者s, this is 井戸／弁護士席 below the 無 放出／発行 乗り物 (ZEV) 委任統治（領） （判断の）基準 they need to 攻撃する，衝突する to 避ける 存在 stung with 相当な?罰金s in 2024.

Ford could 限界 new 石油 models in the UK to 増加する its 株 of electric 乗り物 sales and 避ける 重要な 罰金s on 製造業者s from this year. ツバメ やすりを削る人／削る機械, pictured, general 経営者／支配人 at Ford Europe's EV 分割, said any 制限 on new 石油 car availability would also likely 押し進める up prices for 買い手s. It comes as car 製造者s 直面する a difficult 仕事 in 会合 binding EV sale thresholds that step up from 2024 to the scheduled all-out 禁止（する） on sales of new 石油 and ディーゼル 乗客 cars in 2035.

The new 小型の is a curious confection. The car is a British icon with roots 支援する to 1959 but for 2024 the fourth-世代 殴打／砲列-力／強力にするd Cooper E and SE are 存在 built in 中国. Can it still 逮捕（する） the character and fizz of the 1959 iconic 初めの? We've 実験（する）d the sportier SE in Spain to find out.

AA 分析 of HMRC 人物／姿／数字s 解放（する） this week 設立する the UK 消費するd 968 million いっそう少なく litres of ディーゼル, while 石油 消費 増加するd by 702 million litres during the 財政上の year 2023-2024.The AA せいにするs this to a combination of the high cost of ディーゼル and 効果的な anti-ディーゼル （選挙などの）運動をするs in towns and cities, 主要な to drivers switching from ディーゼル to 石油, hybrid and electric cars.

Electric 乗り物 非難する prices remained stable in the last month, while 石油 prices 急に上がるd. And some forecourts have started 追加するing live 非難する 率s to pricing boards. The AA's Recharge 報告（する）／憶測 for March shows EV 非難する 率s across the board remained flat, making EVs look much more 控訴，上告ing.

モーターing 専門家s have 警告するd drivers across the UK about a 'little-known' mistake which could 無効にする their car 保険. From spotting 違法な manoeuvres on the motorway to 保護するing drivers from crooked （人命などを）奪う，主張するs, dash （機の）カムs have come to the 救助（する） for many. Dash （機の）カムs are becoming so in 需要・要求する a staggering 2.9 million 運転者s are believed to be using them on UK roads, the RAC 報告（する）／憶測s. Although the 従犯者 誇るs several advantages 含むing cheaper 保険 and lower 賞与金s - one small mistake could （判決などを）下す your ニュース報道 無効の. Managing Director at Select 先頭 賃貸し（する）ing, Graham Conway, has 勧めるd 運転者s to 通知する their 保険 providers if the 装置 is hard-wired into their car.

Ferrari upped the 賭け金 at the 12Cilindri's 開始する，打ち上げる by 明らかにする／漏らすing not one but two new cars - a クーデター and droptop 述べるd as 'two souls in the same car'.The matching pair will manage 0-62mph in under 3 seconds, have a 800hp V12 and cost almost £400,000. Ferrari says they take inspiration from the 伝説の 'Daytona Ferraris' and futuristic sci-fi films.

Many EVs will lose up to 12% of their 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 capacity by six years. Yet the cost of 取って代わるing an EV 殴打／砲列 is astonishingly high, our 研究 設立する. A five-year-old Renault Zoe costs £9,100 but a new 殴打／砲列 would 始める，決める you 支援する?£24,124 if it needs to be 取って代わるd.

Reborn racing legend TWR has 明かすd its debut 21st century road car today, and will catch the 注目する，もくろむ of 熱中している人s with 深い pockets and a taste for classic Jags. The V12 最高の-GT Supercat will be built from the 創立／基礎s of the iconic Jaguar XJS, and will bring the 遺産／遺物 of the '80s and '90s 支配するing Tom Walkinshaw Racing team to high-業績／成果 road 乗り物s.

When the Dacia Duster first burst の上に the UK market in 2013, its sub-£10,000 starting price grabbed headlines. 開始する，打ち上げるd as a no-frills compact family car, it 供給するd a tempting choice for 運転者s who cared more about the reserves in their bank balance than they did for modern 高級なs, the 最新の 科学（工学）技術 or the upmost refinement from a 乗り物. 急速な／放蕩な-今後 a １０年間 and the Romanian car 製造者 - owned by Renault - has 明かすd its third-世代 Duster.?And?for 2024, there is a 際立った move up market. But has Dacia now put at 危険 Duster's unique selling point of 申し込む／申し出ing the 絶対の 最小限 必要物／必要条件s from a car to 保証（人） a market-破産した／（警察が）手入れするing low price? We've been 運動ing it in Spain to find out...

The new Tesla Model 業績／成果 model will 加速する from 0 to 60mph in 2.9 seconds. It'll cost £59,990 and is 利用できる to order now. 配達／演説／出産s are 推定する／予想するd in the summer. The 業績／成果 variant follows on from the recently updated Model 3 - it had a facelift in 2023 - joining the 後部-Wheel 運動 and Long 範囲 models to 完全にする Model 3 offerings.

Mercedes has 明かすd its new electric G-Class - the 'G580 with EQ 科学（工学）技術'. Mercedes says the electric 高級な 4x4 is 始める，決める to be its best off-roader yet, and comes with 293 miles of 範囲. It will 開始する，打ち上げる later this year, with the first '版 One' variant costing from around £190,000.

The 普通の／平均（する） UK cost of a litre of 石油 has 公式に より勝るd 150p a litre for the first time since November. As of Monday (22 April), the 普通の／平均（する） price reached 150.1p at filling 駅／配置するs across the country, the AA 報告（する）／憶測d. It also 設立する that almost a third of retailers were 非難する at least 150p for a litre of unleaded; just a week ago, this 人物／姿／数字 was いっそう少なく than a ４半期/4分の1.

The very first all-electric 範囲 Rover is 予定 to be 明かすd later this year - but we've already been given an 初期の glimpse of how the 殴打／砲列-力／強力にするd 高級な SUV will look and 成し遂げる. Parent company JLR (以前は Jaguar Land Rover) has 明らかにする／漏らすd images and （映画の）フィート数 of its debut electric 範囲 Rover during final-行う／開催する／段階 実験（する）ing in icy 条件s in the Artic Circle. It shows a 原型 見解／翻訳／版 of the SUV 存在 driven in 気温s as low as -40 degrees Celsius as part of its sub-無 'calibration 査定／評価' - and, importantly, it's the first time we've seen the 範囲 Rover Electric without any 偽装する to hide some of its angles.

Over a third of UK drivers told 自動車 仲買人 that buying a brand-new car is now a bigger milestone than 購入（する）ing a 所有物／資産／財産, おもに because it's more attainable. 自動車 仲買人's 最新の 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） also shows that the most popular new car of March was the Land Rover Defender 110.

The 2025 Aston ツバメ DBX707 is 利用できる to order this spring. It comes with a new infotainment system, a 改訂するd 内部の and, you'll only be able to buy the 707bhp high 力／強力にする 見解／翻訳／版. 改良s come with a £10,000 増加する, though...

注目する，もくろむ-watering 人物／姿／数字s have 明らかにする／漏らすd the shocking rise people are 支払う／賃金ing for car 保険 賞与金s, with 普通の／平均（する） prices having 急上昇するing by £403, which is almost 二塁打 what they were three years ago. In the last year alone car 保険 has 増加するd by 43 per cent, from?£657 in the first ４半期/4分の1 of 2023 to £941 in?first ４半期/4分の1 of 2024. The staggering 人物／姿／数字s, 収集するd by 保険 provider 混乱させるd.com, lays 耐える the 付加 costs cash-strapped 運転者s are 直面するing in 新規加入 to other 財政上の 圧力s of the cost of living 危機. Drivers are becoming ますます furious over how much they are 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d, with an MP earlier this week telling a 政府 委員会 that her 選挙権を持つ／選挙人s 'feel that 保険 is becoming more of a 引き裂く-off'.

Ford Explorer EV, driven by adventurer Lexie Limitless, becomes the first EV to circumnavigate the globe, に引き続いて in the steps of Aloha Wanderwell, the first woman to 運動 around the world in a car. We travelled to the finish line in Nice, フラン, to speak to Lexie 同様に as taking a 乗客 ride in the all-new Explorer, which went on sale as soon as the challenge was 完全にするd.

Alfa Romeo 明かすd its new Milano electric SUV last week, 指名するd after the iconic northern Italian city where the 製造業者 was 設立するd in 1910. But a monumental fallout in Italy has seen the company do a screeching U-turn on the car's 指名する after it was （刑事）被告 of 違反ing a 国内の 法律. 'A car called Milano cannot be produced in Poland. This is forbidden by Italian 法律,' 大臣 for 商売／仕事 and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso (pictured 権利) said in Turin, referring to 2003 法律制定 that 的s 'Italian sounding' 製品s that 誤って （人命などを）奪う，主張する to be Italian.

The Citroen C1 has been 栄冠を与えるd the best second 手渡す car for Gen Z drivers (those 老年の 17-27), によれば a new 熟考する／考慮する. Cars were 階級d on cost, 保険, safety and mpg. Unsurprisingly small hatchbacks 支配するd the 最高の，を越す 10, with the Vauxhall Corsa and Renault Clio 一連の会議、交渉／完成するing out the 最高の，を越す three.

自動車 仲買人's 明かすd which used cars are 飛行機で行くing off forecourts and which are sat 集会 dust. The Peugeot 3008 was the fastest selling used car of April. Hybrid models 支配するd the 最高の，を越す 10 while used EVs also 成し遂げるd very 井戸／弁護士席, amongst a strong used market 業績／成果.

Alfa Romeo has 明らかにする／漏らすd the new Milano - a sporty,?compact car 始める，決める to attract a fresh - and greener - 世代 of Alfisti fans.That's because it's the first fully-electric model from the brand out of Turin. First 配達／演説／出産s will arrive this summer, と一緒に a hybrid 見解／翻訳／版 for those who don't want to make the leap to 十分な electrification.

The Morris Minor - a true classic of British car 製造業の - very nearly made a 復帰 in the 早期に 2000's. An Anglo-Chinese 国際借款団／連合 lead by ex-Ford of Europe boss ツバメ Leach 手配中の，お尋ね者 to buy 破産者／倒産した MG Rover, with a secret 計画（する） to bring 支援する the Minor to kick-start MG sales. Autocar's inside source 明らかにする／漏らすs the story behind this 行方不明になるd 適切な時期.

With 石油 and ディーゼル prices showing no 調印する of 劇的な 落ちるing anytime soon, filling up at forecourts is 始める，決める to be a 緊張する on 財政／金融s in 2023. That's why learning 'hypermiling' techniques will 利益 all drivers. This is the 指名する given to a 一連の energy efficient 対策 運転者s can put into practice to save 石油, ディーゼル or electricity (if you own an EV). Here's our 最高の，を越す 10 hypermiling tips.

ーするために 始める 非難する at many public 装置s, EV drivers 要求する 接近 to a smartphone app. This 許すs 使用者s to choose the charger they want to use and then 支払う／賃金 for the electricity. Most slow-非難する 装置s - the most popular type - do not 許す for contactless 支払い（額） with a debit or credit card, meaning EV owners are ひどく reliant on their phones to operate them. However, a new 報告（する）／憶測 by the RAC 創立／基礎 設立する that 66.4% of the 非難する point 場所s it analysed didn't have 動きやすい phone signal from at least one of the four major providers: O2, EE, Three and Vodaphone. Without a phone signal, it means EV owners will be unable to 活動させる／戦時編成する the charger when they need to 補充する the 殴打／砲列 of their car.

Starting from just under £15,000, the Spring EV will be a staggering £12,000 cheaper than Britain's 現在の cheapest EV, the MG4. Incredibly, the Spring is just £200 more expensive than Dacia's most affordable Sandero supermini, and its 取引 price tag is only bettered by four other models, making this Britain's sixth cheapest new モーター across all 燃料 types. And it's 衝撃 on the EV market could be groundbreaking, as its low price point should 軍隊 the 手渡す of 競争相手 brands to make their 殴打／砲列-力／強力にするd cars いっそう少なく expensive. Here's everything you need to know about the game-changing EV, 含むing its 範囲, 最高の，を越す 速度(を上げる） and 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 times

The price of a new electric car will 減少（する） to the same level as an 同等（の） new 石油 or ディーゼル model 'much faster than 最初 推定する／予想するd,' によれば a 報告（する）／憶測 published this month. This is because electric 乗り物s (EVs) will, on 普通の／平均（する）, will be cheaper to make than cars with 内部の 燃焼 engines by 2027, says US market 研究 会社／堅い, Gartner. But it's not all good news for the EV 移行, as there is one thing in 特に that will become a lot more expensive in the coming years.

The UK 政府's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 延期する its 禁止（する） on new 石油 and ディーゼル cars from 2030 to 2035 has put a cat amongst the pigeons ーに関して／ーの点でs of 製造業者 計画（する）s to fill their showrooms 排他的に with electric 乗り物s. Rishi Sunak 発表するd in August 2023 that the 最終期限 would be 押し進めるd 支援する 予定 to high EV prices at a time when families are already struggling through a cost-of-living 危機. The 声明 comes as many car 会社／堅いs had already committed to 溝へはまらせる／不時着するing the 内部の 燃焼 engine, with some in 前進するd planning to fill showrooms with EVs much earlier than the new date 始める，決める out by the PM. In this guide we take a look at 44 major car 会社／堅いs and what they have said about their electrification 計画（する）s, 含むing when they ーするつもりである to stop selling モーターs with 石油 and ディーゼル engines once and for all.

New car tech is rolling out at 二塁打 速度(を上げる）, and some massively help safety and 運動ing 緩和する. But that doesn't mean every 発明 is good. Here are our 最高の，を越す seven car tech gimmicks drivers 簡単に don't need.

指名するd Arcadia - after the mythical 'Heaven on Earth' of 古代の Greek legend - the sumptuous two-seater roadster has been uniquely fashioned over more than four years to fit the character and tastes of the 豊富な （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限ing （弁護士の）依頼人 who was 現在のd with it today at a 私的な 儀式 in Singapore. That 含むs the most コンビナート／複合体 and intricate clock 直面する in Rolls-Royce's history which took five months to 組み立てる／集結する after an 付加 two years of 開発 work. Special 天候-proofed 支持を得ようと努めるd inlay sections alone took 8,000 hours to create, the British marque 確認するd.

New safety 実験（する）s 予定 to arrive in 2026 will put fresh 圧力 on car 製造者s to dial 支援する 混乱させるing touchscreen systems that can be distracting for drivers to use on the move. From January 2026, 衝突，墜落 実験（する）ing 団体／死体 Euro NCAP will introduce 支配するs that downgrade the safety ratings of new 乗り物s that do not have buttons on the dashboard to 支配（する）／統制する simple 操作／手術s such as 示すing and 活動させる／戦時編成するing hazard 警告 lights. Brands 含むing Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Volkswagen and Volvo are today 申し込む／申し出ing larger, more 前進するd touchscreens with more 支配（する）／統制するs embedded into them that are convoluted to use while 運動ing.

によれば new data from Hagerty, some of these famous classic cars may have become more affordable over the past few years as the number of people who remember them when new dwindles. Here's 10 長，率いる turners from an ますます forgotten 時代 that may be more accessible today than you think.

One in three 運転者s 支払う／賃金 over the 半端物s for their car 保険 - and the worst thing you can do is 簡単に 新たにする. We 明らかにする／漏らす ten tips to get the cheapest car 保険 取引，協定 and show you the places to go to compare car cover and 潜在的に save hundreds of 続けざまに猛撃するs.