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Reader Letters: Ateca wine, boiling brake fluid, auto headlights and NSX

Reader Letters: Ateca wine and boiling brake fluid

“Nobody wants an Ateca in their life,” says Jeremy Clarkson in his review of the new Seat. He should try a bottle of Bodegas Ateca’s old vines...
Published 07 March 2017
Reader Letters: Speed alerts, America's Route 1, post-Brexit numberplates and Clarkson's bust

Reader Letters: Speed alerts and Clarkson's bust

Driving along the M4 the other day I noticed brake lights ahead. Shortly after, I passed the source: two slow-moving, flat-base lorries in convoy
Published 13 February 2017

Reader Letters: Rev reverence and speed confusion

Tony Inchley asks whether regular drivers need rev counters. My children and I were taught by my husband to use the rev counter almost to the...
Published 16 January 2017
Modern engines worse for the planet, better for our lungs, says study

Reader Letters: Diesel pollution and Honda praise

Letters to Sunday Times Driving this week include a question over whether buyers should have financial incentives to move away from diesel...
Published 19 December 2016
Reader Letters: Roadster heaven, weaving motorbikes, used car mileage, parking tickets and Flummox FM

Reader Letters: Roadster heaven and Flummox FM

The car that beats the Mazda MX-5 and Fiat 124 Spider, the dangers of filtering, how used cars are like dating apps, a parking problem...
Published 13 December 2016
Reader Letters: Insurance groups and motorway gantry gaffes

Reader Letters: Insurance groups and gantry gaffes

Your correspondence this week includes insight into how smart motorway matrix signs work and more on car insurance premiums can alter...
Published 06 December 2016
Reader Letters: Electric car reviews, paint and age-based insurance hikes, and dieselgate groups

Reader Letters: EVs, insurance hikes & dieselgate

It was great to read a review of the Tesla Model S. Giles Smith mentioned the growing national charging network, but in future, in order to...
Published 22 November 2016
Reader Letters: Criminal cyclists, dazzling brakes, smart motorway signs and more "Polite" notices

Reader Letters: Criminal cyclists, dazzling brakes

What can be done about cyclists who, when informed by a driver that they’ve gone through a red light, wait until you catch them up and then thump
Published 14 November 2016
Model X delays and ham radios

Reader Letters: Pedestrian safety and ham radios

When a deer ran out in front of my Jaguar XE I applied an emergency stop. There was a loud bang, a cracking noise and the bonnet shot up...
Published 07 November 2016
Reader Letters: Mobile distractions, lucky colours and ageist insurers

Reader Letters: Mobile hazards and ageist insurers

Roger Grosvenor asked why it was permissible to drive a tourist coach while holding a mike but not to use a mobile in a car...
Published 31 October 2016
Reader Letters: Clarkson computer woes, "Polite" bikers and dark interiors

Reader Letters: Clarkson computer woes

If Jeremy Clarkson “drove” a different laptop every week yet kept the same car for six years, he might find that his intuitive feeling for cars..
Published 24 October 2016
Reader Letters: Respray insurer woes, going hands-free, and done and Dustered

Reader Letters: Rip-off insurers, straying hands

A few months ago I bought a second-hand BMW. It ticked all my boxes except for the colour — black — so I had it resprayed a pretty green...
Published 17 October 2016