How to save money on travel and commuting

Saving Money Week From a daily commute to car hire and insurance, there are lots of ways to save money on getting about

Car leasing: how one petrolhead has become ‘more wary’

Finance plans offer cars for small monthly payments, but one driver found himself saddled with a £900 bill for minor repairs

Car firms have given out £41bn of cheap loans to cause a boom in leasing, but obscure clauses may hide the real cost

Dealers are offering low deposits and mobile phone-style contracts that could mean bigger risks for buyers

ParkingEye pays barrister £1,550 in costs over £85 fine issued as he napped in motorway services

We paid €850 excess on the condition it would be reimbursed. A year later, we are no nearer to getting our money back

Ageing parents are two and a half times more likely to rely on their children to drive them around than they were in 2011

QC Nicholas Bowen has fought high-profile cases, but when it came to this one it was personal

When I said I’d been on one, my insurance quote shot up by £50

Ex-criminals tell Co-op Insurance most thieves are opportunists who tend to avoid difficult break-ins

Figures suggesting new car market is cooling could alleviate concerns over credit bubble in motor finance

The fee of more than £100 to drop the car in a different city was not mentioned when I booked

I’d probably get £3,000 for my 12-year-old Mercedes E-class estate, but I could keep it going despite environmental fears

Sales of new cars fell 9.3% to 161,997 in July, while those of diesel cars were down by a fifth compared with last year

After giving my year of birth as 2010, it also said I’d been without car cover for two days