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Car finance: Drivers using claims firms could face 36% add-on charge on compensation payouts

As the FCA warns over claims firms, here are the options if you’ve been a victim of motor loan mis-selling

Car insurance: Which? warns over hefty renewal price rises

Insurers may be failing in their duty to offer fair value when 40% of motorists do not make a fuss over often big hikes

I went to a drive-thru Starbucks but ended up with a £100 parking fine

Staff said I had needed to enter my car reg on an iPad, only there wasn’t one at the kiosk

AA Assist let me down after a collision – and wanted nearly £1,000 to give my car back

It didn’t keep its promises of a speedy repair or a courtesy car, and demanded a fortune for storage over the weekend

I’ve just been sent £170 fine for not paying a parking ticket … six years ago

Reader is unsure what they did, but after all this time, National Parking Enforcement is threatening court action

‘Pay here’: the QR code ‘quishing’ scam targeting drivers

How to avoid costly double whammy as rise in app- and phone-based parking payment opens new frontier in fraud

Parking firm failed to respond to my appeal before raising the fine

Reader is willing to pay original sum but says no one should be fined for stopping for just over 2 minutes

‘It’s wild’: how the cost of learning to drive in the UK is accelerating

From rising prices for lessons to insurance cover, we break down the hefty charges learners now face

Thousands more driving tests planned to cut waiting times in Britain

More trainers and overtime for examiners but target to cut queue to seven weeks will not be hit until 2026

Motorists ‘could save £850 a year by choosing an electric car over a hybrid’

Owners of hybrids save only £13 a year compared with petrol equivalents, thinktank says

Direct Line chasing me over dead uncle’s cancelled car insurance

Bereaved executor questions lack of tact and why insurer was not alerted by closed bank account

Price of parking rises steeply due to English councils’ clean-air surcharges

The AA says ‘cash-guzzling’ councils are adding clean-air levies to parking tariffs and resident parking permits

Labour: changes to EV rules will have ‘negligible’ impact on UK emissions

Transport secretary says overhaul in response to Trump tariffs supports car firms and climate goals

Thousands of Ford Kuga hybrid drivers ‘left in limbo’ after fire risk warnings

Carmaker reportedly has yet to announce plan for repairs after telling motorists not to charge their cars

Hyundai facing legal action over car that can be stolen ‘effortlessly in seconds’

Elliott Ingram was stunned at how a thief made off with his Ioniq 5 deploying a device to mimic the smart key – and says he should have been warned

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