On Sunday morning I was traveling at a good 70mph in a line of traffic on the A27 between Portsmouth and Chichester. A Polish registered coach caught me up very quickly driving at an unbelievable speed. The line of cars slowed at the approach to a slip road but I don't think the coach driver saw this happening and he got so close to the back of my car that I thought he was going to hit me.
The coach swerved round the line of cars and sped off into the distance leaving all the 70mph drivers behind.
My question is, would it have been any point in reporting him, I couldn't write his registration number down and even if I had would the police have bothered to do anything about it? The driving of some of these foreign registered coaches and lorries at times beggars belief. Read more

I read in "Mr Money" in the Telegraph on Sat 24th Mar about a particular Ford Dealership Group selling a Ford Ka Studio for £4995, 50% down and 2 years 0% finance. Unfortunately "Mr Money" did not say which group, has anybody seen any adverts or does anybody know what Dealership it was?
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Got pulled doing 110 on the M1 today, the policeman said they'd recorded me doing up to 115 at one point. I was genuinly appologetic & regretful, and they dealt with the matter by issuing a FPN and 60 pound fine. I think the Policeman appreciated that I wasn't likely to do it again (which I'm not), and that the road was clear which must have been a factor in their leniancy, but I still think I had the luckyest escape ever. Lesson learned. There can't be that many people caught doing that sort of speed & not banned? Read more

hi all,
i have now got my old mondeo back from the garage after so many problems with the one i bought from them. ( see my last post)
anyway..................

i have a R reg 1.8 mondeo verona (zetec) engine. the few probs are minor i think so any advice would be gratefully recieved. firstly.........i drive about 15 miles to work in the morning and it doesnt seem to heat up , the temp gauge is showing the needle just over the white cold block, but i still get nice warm air in the car?????.
secondly........for a 1.8 it doesnt seem very quick at all, i have to take the revs upto 3500-4000 to get it motoring, when i put my foot down like this sometimes it will jerk / hesitate. thirdly........ even if i drive it sensibly (slow) it seems to be using a lot of fuel.
i have no clues to what might be causing the obove so any help would be gratfully recieved as was the last people who helped me.
thanks
kevin. Read more

Just had a 3-day test drive in a Kia Cee'd - I can't remember now where I saw the advertisement but although it's not my size (we need one car bigger, one smaller) I thought it might be fun. It was.

GOOD

- 1.6 petrol engine gives out 120 bhp - pretty healthy for a Golf-size car.
- Very good quick response to the accelerator - plenty of shove straight away. This was perhaps the most obvious, and welcome, contrast with my diesel B-class.
- More room in the back than a Golf, and the rear seats fold flat. I got a full-size music keyboard in there yesterday.
- Handling not as sharp as a Focus, but sharper than a Golf.


NOT SO GOOD

- Infuriating stalks the wrong way round: fine if you don't have another car I suppose.
- Silly name, and why the apostrophe?
- the stylist has been allowed to win with the door mirrors which are a silly shape and hioner visibility of things overtaking you.
- you have to remove the headrests to fold down the back seat
- rear vision not great - again the stylist has decreed one of those silly little 'sixth light' windows, as on the Jazz and Colt.

In sum it was fun to drive and reasonably practical. I'll wait for the estate which is to come later this year with the option of a 2.0 diesel. Our vicar has a Sportage 2.0 dlesel and says it's very well soundproofed (incldentally he tows a caravan and the Kia is the best towing car he's ever had). Read more