Cars news

• People have been complaining about noisy cars for 115 years

  23-08-2026 17:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  "Unsuitable devices for unnecessarily intensifying the volume" of cars have been around for a century"The Commissioner of Police thinks it advisable to call upon all owners and drivers of motor vehicles to do what is in their power to reduce the annoyance caused, especially at night, by the use of unsuitable devices for unnecessarily intensifying either the timbre or volume of the sound emitted."
  Anyone who has ever been woken at 3am by the droning and banging of a modified Audi RS3 or somesuch
  
  Read more

• Home improvement: The mechanics turning your drive into a garage

  23-08-2026 10:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  The RAC is one of many firms offering services at home or a place of work, and the idea is catching onIn most jobs, gratification is rooted in hard metrics: leads, customer conversions, sales and such. But for the RAC's army of mobile mechanics it comes from something altogether more tangible.
  Sean Kimberlin, the RAC's mobile mechanic of the year and guest speaker at the Autocar Drivers of Change awards, says the true marker of a job well done is, in fact, whether the customer offers tea and bis
  
  Read more

• Why you need a used Honda Civic Type R – even if it costs £40k

  23-08-2026 07:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  It's still £40k, and for maybe the zenith of hot hatches worth every pennyIn 2022, jaws dropped when Honda announced the starting price of the 'FL5' Civic Type R as £46,995 - £15,000 more than the 'FK8' had cost six years earlier.
  It was an example of supply economics: numbers were limited in Europe due to CO2 emissions regulations (the Type R emits 186g/km), so even at that inflated price demand outstripped supply.
  Even now, used cars start from around £35,000, or simila
  
  Read more

Follow @Cars_UKnews on Twitter!