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  Plymouth - Dakar £100 Banger Rally 22 Aug 2002 (News)
  £100 and in order to keep costs to a minimum, those vehicles that make it to Senegal will be given away to charity before the contestants fly home. Rally organiser Julian Nowill will be driving a Lada Riva Estate which he found abandoned in Exeter with Council stickers on the windows
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  Automatic 'Smart City' Braking Standard on new Mazda CX-5 8 Jun 2015 (News)
  Mazda has developed a new advanced safety technology called ‘Smart City Brake Support' (SCBS), which helps a driver to avoid a frontal collision when driving at low speeds in the city or in slow moving traffic.  The SCBS system will make its first appearance fitted as standard
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  Frankfurt Motor Show 2015: Jaguar F-Pace Breaks Guinness World Record 14 Sep 2015 (News)
  .   The new Jaguar F-Pace ‘crossover’ SUV comes with Ingenium 2.0 litre petrol diesel or petrol engines, rear wheel drive or four wheel drive, manual or 8-speed ZF automatic transmissions: or 3.0 litre V6 petrol or diesel engines with automatic transmissions and four wheel drive only
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  Common Sense From the IAM About Driving in Difficult Conditions 27 Oct 2013 (News)
  Now that the clocks have gone back bringing night an hour earlier the IAM's Peter Rodger, first offers advice about driving in the dark. To improve your view as far as possible, keep your lights and windscreen clean. It’s easy to forget the inside of the windows
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  Hyundai Discounts up to £5,712 via Drivethedeal 3 Aug 2012 (News)
  Active 5dr £9,035 Saving £2,560 * (23.5%) Hyundai i20 1.4 CRDi Blue Drive Active 5dr £10,383 Saving £3,111 *(24%) Hyundai iX20 1.4 Active 5dr £11,545 Saving £1,715 * Hyundai iX20 1.6 CRDi Blue Drive Active 5dr £12,995 Saving
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  A rugged winter weather solution - Lada Niva 1 Sep 2011 (News)
  Kuga , but to get a four-wheel drive version there’s a premium over the two-wheel drive model. Luckily, if you’re after a new car that’s useable in the most extreme conditions but you’re not willing to pay a premium for it, there’s a solution, and it comes from Russia, where vehicles need
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  Megane 265 breaks Nurburgring lap record 17 Jun 2011 (News)
  With a time of 8 minutes 08 seconds the new limited edition Mégane Renaultsport 265 Trophy has set a new benchmark time for a production-specification front-wheel drive car at the Nürburgring’s infamous Nordschleife circuit. This performance beats
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  Road safety charity calls for 12-month minimum learning period for new drivers 11 Feb 2021 (News)
  Columbia). In July 2019, off the back of an eight-year peak of drink-drive deaths
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  'Driver mode' could soon auto-disable your phone 24 Nov 2016 (News)
  in “distraction-affected” collisions. “…the agency believes that an important way to help mitigate the real-world risk posed by driver distraction from portable devices is for these devices to have limited functionality and simplified interfaces when they are used by drivers while driving
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  Parents are the safest drivers, says research 23 Nov 2016 (News)
  Brits" drive more safely after the birth of their children.  In fairness, following the results the company conducted some road-based research with the British School of Motoring, and found that parent drivers are indeed more alert while driving. You can see the video below
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  Ford Model A sets new world record 10 Jun 2014 (News)
  An Australian classic car owner has set a new world record for driving across Australia and back again in a pre-WWII car. Rod Wade, aged 71, and his team covered 5592 miles in a 1930 Ford Model A in a fundraising challenge for Kidney Health Australia. The driving duo set
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  Dashcam Catches Red Light Crash 6 Feb 2014 (News)
  the SmartWitness  in-car camera requested that a copy of the video recording be produced as evidence. When they saw the vehicle CCTV they said it was clearly proof of careless driving against the Skoda driver. The Skoda driver, a Russian national who was fully insured, was subsequently prosecuted
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  Citroen Survolt doing demo runs at Goodwood 22 Jun 2011 (News)
  Draperstown, Northern Ireland, currently drives the DS3 R3 in the British Rally Championship. To complete the motorsport theme, a static example of the 300bhp DS3 WRC, which has already won five rallies in 2011, will also be on display on the Citroën stand. On show at the Citroen stant
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  Vauxhall to show Ampera EV at Geneva show 25 Feb 2011 (News)
  -seat, five-door E-REV will benefit from zero annual VED, congestion charge exemption and company car tax of just five per cent. With 150bhp and 370Nm of torque, the Ampera will be no slouch either, achieving 0-60mph in nine seconds and a top speed of 100mph. Via a ‘Drive Mode' button
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  Last chance to buy a new Mazda RX-8 27 Aug 2010 (News)
  are priced at £25,540 on the road. Powered by an improved version of the unique 231bhp twin-rotor engine, the latest car delivers faster steering, quicker engine response, improved refinement and more equipment. It continues to feature the front-midship engine, rear-wheel drive
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  SAAB 99 in Friday’s 'Flipping Bangers' 25 Jun 2019 (News)
  SAAB 99 . A car that has it origins in an amalgam of technologies from the front-wheel drive Truiumph 1300 and the rear-wheel drive Triumph Dolomite . Effectively, the 99 had an overhead cam 1,850 Dolomite-based engine
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  Jaguar Land Rover and BMW team up to develop EV tech 5 Jun 2019 (News)
  Jaguar Land Rover has announced a collaboration with BMW, which will see the two firms developing electric car technology together. As part of the deal, the two carmakers will develop new generation electric drive units (EDUs
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  Geneva Motor Show 2017: Mercedes-AMG GT Concept previews Porsche Panamera rival 7 Mar 2017 (News)
  is to be confirmed, but expect to pay from around £70,000. Power comes from a twin-turbo V8 engine paired to an electric motor, together driving all four wheels. The power output is 805PS in the concept, meaning 0—62mph is takes less than three seconds. Chances are the production car
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  Original 1969H Mini Being Auctioned for Prostate Cancer Research 8 Nov 2016 (News)
  red Mini. It was originally bought by Mrs Millie Properjohns who wanted to learn to drive at the age of 60. Millie finally gave up driving in 2007 at the age of 98 and the car passed on to her daughter who continued to cherish and maintain it to a very high standard, reaching 33,000 miles
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  Audi unveils hydrogen powered h-tron quattro concept 11 Jan 2016 (News)
  to cover up to 372 miles on a single tank and can be refuelled in four minutes. The four-wheel drive h-tron quattro takes it power from a 110kW fuel cell, but can be boosted by a 100kW battery to produces more than 300PS and 550Nm of torque. Top speed will be 124mph and Audi