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If you’ve ever browsed through used car ads on online marketplaces, you’ll know that many are too good to be true. In 2023 Santander issued an urgent warning after £479,964 had been reported as lost to Facebook Marketplace car scams. Criminals were – and still are – using stolen photos and videos of genuine vehicles, …

We get to grips with the BMW X3 M50 xDrive – the range-topping version of the German brand’s best-selling family SUV… Back in the 1980s there was a series of TV adverts for fresh cream cakes. The slogan was “naughty but nice”. After a week with the flagship M50 xDrive performance version of the BMW …

Drivers “lose” up to 565 hours of their lives to car-related admin and maintenance planning. A poll of 2,000 drivers, of all vehicle makes and models, revealed that on average, they spend the equivalent of a full day each year thinking about service schedules, MOTs, and potential issues – time that could be better spent …