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  What Effect is a £2,000 Scrappage Scheme Likely to Have? 21 Apr 2009 (News)
  pressure from the manufacturers to reduce fleet discounts. The knock-on effect of this could be significant increases for people running cars on Motability Finance (Europe’s largest fleet). With Sterling 40% down against the Euro and Motability demanding 40% discounts, EU manufacturers
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  Low Emission Zone Phase III Postponed 3 Feb 2009 (News)
  on publicity, signage and cameras to catch just a handful of older, more polluting trucks. The cost of finding this out has been about £50 million in set up costs and a further £10 million in annual running costs. At least now the damage has been limited and we can start to look at more intelligent
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  SEPTEMBER OFFERSFROM SEAT 13 Aug 2008 (News)
  on something a little larger should look no further than the perennially popular SEAT Leon. In the run-up to September anyone purchasing a Leon 1.9 TDI, in newly-launched Emoción spec, will be able to upgrade to the superior Stylance level for free. That means a whole host of additional
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  Mobile speed trap fines expected to rise by 40% 10 Jan 2006 (News)
  . www.carparts-direct.co.uk claims record sales for the Quintezz speed camera detector were recorded in the run up to Christmas. The company ran a unique promotion of buy one at £199 and get a second one at half price, paying just £99.50 for the second unit. The promotion is to continue until
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  Some Quite Cheap Cars at Auction Today 22 Nov 2004 (News)
  : the bargains are out there, but they stop being bargains if you run away with yourself and end up paying too much. Full programme of big sales for the rest of the week with ex-fleet, finance and part-exchanges on Wednesday and Friday, an Alphabet sale on Wednesday, the big LCV sale on Thursday
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  Auction Prices Starting to Soften At Last 20 Sep 2004 (News)
  for an 11k mile 02 reg Yaris 1.0GS, £5,700 paid for a 37k mile 02 reg Focus 1.6LX, and £12,850 paid for a 62k mile 2001/51 Audi S3. Buy of the day definitely wasn’t the non-running 193,000 mile 89F Peugeot 205 XS with a rusty door bid to a fiver. It was a 45k mile Y reg Volvo
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  Lively Auction For Late December Today 18 Dec 2002 (News)
  will runs another full programme including entries from PHH, Fleetlease, Lloyds TSB Autolease, Vauxhall Masterhire, Interleasing and Inchcape, plus the usual LCV sale. Today’s hot little numbers included Black Horse 17, a repossessed 49k mile unwarranted 2000W Honda Integra R for which
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  Lots of Price Variation at Auction Today 20 Nov 2002 (News)
  provisionally. Top bid for a Northern Irish registered April 2000 BMW 540i Sport with 38k was £2k under trade book at £17,250. A 12k mile 2001X facelift Corolla 1.4 5-door sold for a sensible £4,500. A 12k mile 02 reg Mercedes E200 Kompressor Classic with the run-out ‘enhanced spec
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  Bags of Bargains at Blackbushe Today 23 Oct 2002 (News)
  Auction prices are now very definitely dropping to the usual seasonal low, particularly for finance end of-contract-cars and snatchbacks. Instead of running them through the halls relentlessly in an attempt to improve on low bids, finance companies are now taking the money. Lowlights
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  Scramble for Cars at Auction Today 24 Jul 2002 (News)
  28,000 mile 99V 1.8 Zetec 3-door with neither climate pack nor sunroof bid to £5,750. Handsome Rover 75s also make the running with private buyers. An unmarked 28,000 mile Oxford built 99V 2.0 V6 Connoisseur, resplendent in Wedgwood Blue metallic, made a whopping £9,000
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  New BIK Tax Beating C Class 9 Jul 2002 (News)
  bhp (at 5,200 rpm) and a maximum torque of 220 Nm (between 2,500 and 4,200 rpm), 15 percent more than the preceding model. It gets to 60mph 1.3 seconds faster than the previous C180 and now runs to an 8mph higher top speed of 139 mph. The new 163 bhp (at 5,500 rpm) C200 KOMPRESSOR unit
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  Auction Prices High, but Bargains for the Brave 1 Mar 2002 (News)
  as a traffic-calming kerbstone. And the trade was paying the big money rather than just running up Billy Bunters. £10,550 was a lot for 40,000 mile 99V Honda CRV 2.0 ES. So was £8,775 for a 55,000 mile 2000W Passat TDI SE badged as a 115 but described as a 90. So was £14,200
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  Big Car Bargains at Blackbushe 13 Jul 2001 (News)
  , that was still at sea at the time of the last sale. The very wide variety of other entries includes a 9,500 mile 1982 Vauxhall Chevette, a 1904 Pierce Arrow Motorette (which qualifies for the Brighton Run), and a 1928 Chevrolet Model AB roadster. Full list of entries
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  Wraps come off new Kia Rio at Geneva 1 Mar 2011 (News)
  for the UK market will include smart-key entry system, RDS radio CD player with MP3 compatibility plus AUX, iPod and USB connections, Bluetooth ® handsfree (with voice recognition available from December 2011), climate-control air-conditioning, heated front seats and LED daytime running lights
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  Big Historic Car Racing Event at Castle Combe This Weekend 2 Oct 2012 (News)
  will return to Castle Combe along with the iconic Ecurie Ecosse race transporter. This Commer based truck became a world famous Corgi model and owes it's appearance at Castle Combe to the support of the Jaguar Enthusiasts' Club, based in Filton, Bristol. The club is running a 30 minute race for all Pre 1966
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  Chris Evans First CarFest Just Weeks Away 8 Aug 2012 (News)
  the The Knights of the Damned. For foodies Laverstoke Park Farm will be running a range of workshops including ice cream making, bread making, butter churning and biscuit decorating. It will also host a DIY BBQ Zone where visitors can cook food they’ve bought from around
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  Jaguar Land Rover commits to UK car production as it scraps petrol and diesel engines 17 Feb 2021 (News)
  cent of its sales will be zero-emission vehicles by 2030. The company is also making a heavy investment in hydrogen fuel cell technology, with the firm’s first fuel-cell electric vehicle tech due to be running on public roads by the end of the year
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  Hidden Heroes: Fiat Bravo HGT 10 May 2019 (News)
  powerful than it was. That was further addressed in 2000 with the run-out model, the HGT 155, which had 154bhp (or 155PS, from which it gained its name). The extra 10 horses, along with some Abarth body styling features, made it even more interesting to drive
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  Hidden Heroes: SEAT Toledo V5 5 Apr 2019 (News)
  .  So why, then, is the Toledo V5 such an intriguing proposition? First, it’s an oddball, and we like cars that don’t conform. Second, it’s a cracking car to drive, and those high running costs, coupled to the fact that not many people know what it is, mean that used prices
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  1954 Austin Healey 5.7 V8 in Historics 2nd March Classic Car Auction 25 Feb 2019 (News)
  . And, due to the awkward installation of the distributor at the rear of small block Chevrolet 350 V8s, he went for the lighter Ford 289 V8 instead. Nevertheless, Healey Chevrolets were often seen at British speed hillclimbs in the 1960s, sometimes jacked up between runs while their owners changed the spark