Motoring

  • BusinessThe Conversation

    Japan: the yen plunges to 34-year low despite interest rate hike

    Raising interest rates can’t stop Japan’s currency from sinking to a record low.

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Driver handed London Ulez fine for car parked in Manchester

    Drivers are being given Ulez fines after cameras wrongly identified their vehicles as being in the charge zone.

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  • BusinessReuters

    Volkswagen to invest $210 million in South African plant

    JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Volkswagen plans to invest 4 billion rand ($210.67 million) in its South African manufacturing plant in the Eastern Cape in preparation to manufacture a new SUV from 2027, it said on Tuesday. South Africa is the largest automotive manufacturing hub on the African continent, hosting global brands such as Toyota, Isuzu, Volkswagen and Mercedes. The German carmaker's statement said the investment will be used to upgrade facilities in various areas in preparation for the ad

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  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    Skoda Kodiaq review: Still the best in the family car business – but only if you need a car this big

    The saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” has multiple translations in Czech and I’m willing to bet that each one of them was uttered during the development of Skoda’s second-generation Kodiaq. The first car – on sale since 2017 – was and remains a high-quality SUV, with no significant shortcomings that needed to be fixed for the second iteration, which is why it’s been largely left alone for the past seven years.

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  • BusinessReuters

    China's Chery to open its first European manufacturing site in Spain

    BARCELONA (Reuters) -China's Chery Auto has signed a joint venture deal with Spain's EV Motors to produce cars at its first factory in Europe, EV Motors and the Catalan regional government said on Tuesday. Chery, the junior partner in the joint venture, will start producing its Omoda vehicles at the plant first, while majority stakeholder EV Motors will start producing its own vehicles in the fourth quarter, the Spanish company said.

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  • BusinessBirmingham Live

    Over two million UK drivers told to 'act soon' over their driveways

    The number of used cars sold in 2023 was up some 350,000 on the year before, according to new analysis - and car buyers could be saving over £1k on some models which are widely seen on UK roads.

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  • LifestyleSWNS

    Children prefer running free outside over organised activities like hide and seek

    Children would rather run free while playing outside over more organised games of hide and seek or sports. A poll, of 2,000 parents of children aged 6-10 and the kids themselves, found 57 per cent named running around as their favourite thing to do. And 43 per cent wish they could do it more. It also emerged 75 per cent of kids feel happiest when they’re free to ‘play their own way’ without structure. And 53 per cent get excited when they get to choose what they want to do for the day, with 54 o