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British motoring manufacturers will be optimistic of a more profitable 2021 following the news that the UK and EU have agreed a post-Brexit trade deal.

It was on this day in 1983 that movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger - then verging on superstardom after the success of his breakthrough film Conan The Barbarian - was cited in the USA for driving without a licence.

It was on this day in 1943 that celebrated American engineer Curtis Veeder - inventor of counting devices such as the vehicle tachometer and odometer - passed away at the age of 81.

It was on this day in 1956 that the colourful American automobile entrepreneur Preston Tucker - subject of a Hollywood film starring Jeff Bridges - passed away from lung cancer at the age of 53.

It was on this day in 1994 that the legendary former chairman of Renault - Pierre Dreyfus - passed away at the age of 93.

It’s been a strange old year, the pandemic enforced lockdown’s has meant fewer cars on the road, less accidents and a drop in emissions - but there has been one negative, more speeding.

Rudolph and his reindeer friends might just get Christmas Eve off this year after Bentley crafted a Flying Spur V8 nicknamed the ‘Reindeer Eight’ in tribute to Santa’s engine room.

It was on this day in 1903 that England issued its very first licence plate - the number ‘A1’

A bizarre list of items left in cars has formed a list of the strangest things found by mechanics when a vehicle has been left for a repair.

A pandemic induced halt on production lines across Britain has contributed to car factories pushing out less than a million cars for only the second time since the 1980s.