Some 46% of motorists - who represent 23m licence holders in Britain - can't correctly name half of the symbols that show up on the instrument cluster.

Drivers across Britain gearing up compensation war have submitted a staggering 1.4m claims after being mis-sold car finance - as a new map today laid bare the scale of the payments fiasco.

The Motor Insurers' Bureau, which pays out claims for victims of uninsured driver and hit-and-run crashes, has released figures showing where these incidents occur most often.

Results from a recent poll found that only 18 out of 2,000 licence holders could provided the correct answer to all five questions - a lousy success rate of just 0.9%.

The Ford Fiesta is the most stolen car in the UK, figures suggest. Almost 10,350 were stolen between January 2018 and July this year, according to data collected by Confused.com.

Motorists living in urban areas miles away from the countryside in areas such as Knightsbridge and Mayfair are more likely to own high-end SUVs such as Range Rovers than those in the country.