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    Government backtracks on plans to push new cars’ first MOT to four years to protect road safety

    Ministers say they have "put road safety first" as the government decides to maintain the period before a car's first MOT test at three years. This comes after the Department for Transport's (DfT) consulted with the public last

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    Police stop 110mph biker who had 46 points on licence

    A motorcyclist in Norfolk was stopped by police after being clocked travelling at 110mph on the A47. It was later found that the offending biker, who had a passenger riding pillion, not only had 46 points on his licence, but they were also

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    Man finds car was driven above speed limit while in for MOT

    A man who took his car to a garage for its MOT was shocked to discover that it had driven at well over the speed limit on a suburban road. Andrew Siggens dropped his Nissan Juke off at a Bristol Street Motors dealership on McMullen Road in

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    Pre-1977 vehicles to be reclassified as classic cars

    Any vehicle dating from before 1977 is to be classified as a classic, under new government plans. The proposed changes, which will come into effect within the next two years, aim to make it easier to keep older cars on the

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    Where are the UK's most beaten up bangers?

    Dundee car owners should hang their heads in shame, as a new study has revealed that they have the highest MOT failure rate in the UK. Car management site, Automyze, analysed 1 million MOT records of AA members, and found that more than half of

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    Are you being ripped off at the garage?

    Most people have no idea what's going on under the car bonnet. It means that when we drop the car off for an MOT, service or repair, we leave ourselves entirely in the hands of the professionals. They could come out, declare the car to be

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    Three million cars wrongly pass MOT, report finds

    Alamy Up to three million potentially dangerous cars are being allowed back on the road after being wrongly passed in MOT inspections, a DVSA report has recently found. The report, conducted by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, found that