Resigned to Domestication: Buying a Family Car

It's no easy decision handing over thousands of pounds of hard-earned cash for a large hunk of metal on wheels. We want to try and collate some information on the models that can be had before pounding the forecourts.

Petrol Prices in Your Area

09 Jan 2008

Do you want to know where the cheapest fuel prices are in your area? PetrolPrices.com tells you just that, for Unleaded, Diesel, LRO (Lead Replacement ...

Car Stereo

25 Dec 2007

Our stereo has the interesting (but irritating) habit of randomly attempting to play a CD, even if there isn't a CD inside and without us even ...

Act on CO2

25 May 2007

The UK Government has launched a campaign to reduce car CO2 emissions by better driving and car care. Their page of Smarter Driving Tips and ...

Our Carbon Emissions

04 Mar 2007

Here are the CO2 emissions for our diesel Passat, based on the TargetNeutral Emissions Calculator: Your CO2 emissions ...

Pay As You Drive Insurance

05 Nov 2006

We currently have our car insured with Norwich Union, and decided to ask them to quote for their new Pay-as-you-Drive scheme. We have a low ...

Roof Bars for the Passat

29 May 2006

Now that the Passat has proved its worth, we need to fix some roof bars to it so we can carry all our bikes. Roof Bars The car is a '96 N, and ...

Here it is!

17 Nov 2005

It's been 24 hours since we bought the Passat, and it hasn't been used once. The weather's been miserable too, but we're determined not to use ...

So much for Protracted Buying Process

16 Nov 2005

There we were, getting prepared to investigate every estate car and MPV under the Sun, when all of a sudden (almost) we now own one! It's ...

The marketplace

28 Oct 2005

A quick scan of Autotrader reveals that ?5K can typically buy you:- A 3-year-old Vauxhall Zafira with 70,000 miles A 4-5-year-old Zafira ...