Learner drivers battle growing wait to take test

THE Government has moved its deadline to resolve the nation’s driving test backlog by over half a year, blaming an influx in demand in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of Labour’s ‘Plan for

The driverless car now seems to have become a risky, possibly even toxic prospect for a great many industry powers. Having invested keenly, the big traditional players – Ford, Volkswagen, General Moto

The truth is that vans support everything. From small businesses to construction to retail, to propping up the near instantaneous delivery of your sweatshop specials, vans are the key to that ‘last mi

EMERGENCY stops on the driving test, once the bane of nervous learner drivers, could be almost phased out if a new DVSA pilot scheme is successful. Under the new test regime being trialled for three m

Last week we had a ‘situation’ on the road test desk. Nothing serious, just a logistical mess, but the eventual solution involved me blagging a lift up to MIRA from one of my What Car? colleagues. Geo

Autocar’s history of empirical road testing is the longest in the world. For more than a century, we have been verifying, scrutinising, describing and illustrating new cars in unparalleled detail. Dri