According to the Daily Telegraph, "Jaguar-Land Rover is reported to be in line for a taxpayer bail-out worth up to £1bn after holding talks with Government ministers". Why are they considering doing this? Read more

I really do wish that the price of fuel would come down to about 50p/litre, because this mimsing, slow-driver mindset is becoming a real issue at the moment in my experience.

The latest one to infest the roads (of the North East anyway) is drivers failing to accelerate in good time on sliproads -- many of them are still only managing 35-40 when they hit the carriageway.

Now this would not normally be a problem (they can be overtaken on most roads) but a particularly insidious creature has cropped up now, which sits in the middle of the road, between the two lanes, at <40mph. Forcing drivers behind to join the motorway at dangerously slow speeds, and/or perform risky overtaking procedures as they are joining the motorway, running over the white lines to get to a reasonable speed.

Most of the time drivers on the motorway are switched-on enough to pull into the outside lane when they see this happening, but with the best will in the world not all manage it, especially lorries and quite frankly it is not the responsibility of the vehicle already doing 60-70 on the inside lane to make way for these idiots.

What is it with these people? OK, most of them drive small cars, but I've driven 1l Micras on the motorway before and they are quite capable of hitting 60mph going downhill along the length of a typical sliproad. And if you are going to dawdle along and endanger other road users, at least have the common courtesy to do so in an appropriate lane!

This has happened to me four times this last fortnight now, once onto a road occupied by a stream of trucks where I was seriously considering the hard shoulder as a get out of jail card -- thankfully there was a gap but still. Read more

Car runs as if the choke was staying on too long. If you don't keep the car running when started, if it cuts out then the spark plugs need changed.

Parts already changed: temprature sensor, lambda sensor,cat & EGR valve. Read more

Just been going round the insurance comparison sites to get a better quote for SWMBO's car and found Admiral came out with best package. Can anyone recommend them? I've not used them before. Read more

I passed a car who was stationary in the left lane waiting in a queue at a set of traffic lights. As I did, he sounded his horn and moved out of the left lane and drove right behind me and tried to overtake me. I was in the right lane so he tried to overtake in the lane of the oncoming traffic. I sped up and he wasn't able to overtake. At the next set of lights it was red. He stopped and came out of the car and up to the passenger window and hit it hard (no damage). His passenger also came out the car and was behind him. I lowered the window slightly and he said "what the pink fluffy dice are you doing " I just thought he was a maniac and didn't want confrontation so just said loudly "sorry". I had to say it about 3 times before he went back to his car. He tried to make a point by cutting me up afterwards but I was almost stationary and waiting to turn right anyway. What a loser. He was driving an old shape corsa. This was just a few hours ago in busy traffic.

I had thought of taking his number plate details and reporting it to the police. Not because of the incident but because I'd thought it was possible the car may have been stolen or uninsured/untaxed, they may have had weapons in the car. But I decided to turn right to my destination.

I would like to know other people's comments and views, whether have they been in that situation before and what did you do (or would have done)? Read more