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  Premier Parking Suspended From Accessing DVLA Data 19 May 2012 (News)
  and the misleading wording of  its Parking Charge Notices is resolved . BBC Spotlight Report on You Tube Link . This arose after a 75 year old pensioner dropped his wife off at the back
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  Official 20% Off Hyundai Getz 11 Aug 2008 (News)
  manage to find the deposit though – perhaps because their old car has just failed its MoT or the savings have just been spent on a holiday. So as an alternative the second offer requires no deposit at all. The first payment would be £285, followed by £139 per month for 35 months
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  Ford Ex-Rentals on the Rise Again 8 Jan 2002 (News)
  and 2001Y Mondeo 2.0 Ghias to as much as £11,300, though that was a come-on and subsequent top bids were around the £10,700 mark. Even old shapes were up, with £7,000 needed to secure a Juice Green 13,000 mile 2001X 2.0 Zetec, whereas I saw an otherwise identical 8,000 miler
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  'Elvis Car' Ford Model A Hot Rod Comes Up For Auction 1 Aug 2019 (News)
  'The Elvis Car', Elvis Presley's 1929 Ford Model A Highboy Hot Rod from the movie 'Loving You' Comes up for auction on 31st August. Probably
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  'LIFE ON MARS' CARS IN DEMAND 31 Jan 2008 (News)
  British Car Auctions predicts that demand for iconic 80's cars will be stimulated once again when the sequel to BBC TV's highly successful 'Life on Mars' begins on 7th February. 'Ashes to Ashes', the new series that will see the return of DCI Gene Hunt, played by Philip Glenister
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  The Mot Files: What does the test involve and why is it important? 18 Feb 2019 (News)
  The MoT test is a legally-required examination for all vehicles when they reach three years old, cars over three years are then tested every 12 months after that. The MoT test is used to determine if your vehicle is roadworthy, you also need a valid MoT certificate to tax
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  A Grand Monday: Volvo 480ES for £800 17 Dec 2015 (News)
  How’s this for a 1980s headturner? It’s a 1989 Volvo 480ES for sale at just £800 . Whether you love it or loathe it, the 480ES was a car that marked a radical departure for Volvo when it first appeared
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  Nostalgia Weekend at Croft Circuit 31 Jul 2010 (News)
  people’s minds. Its uniqueness – mixing static displays with top-class historic motor racing – is going to appeal to so many people young and old and it’s great to see something like this at last in the North-East. You certainly don’t need to be just into racing cars to get
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  Cayenne Turbo at Top Car Today 26 Jul 2004 (News)
  , that should have been the star of the show until the Cayenne usurped it, bid to £45,500 and would have been a lot of car for the money if it came for that. Yet, there were also some relatively good buys. A 50k mile Y reg (three years old, now) X5 3.0i Sport manual with satnav, TV
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  Bargains and Premiums at Auction Today 17 Oct 2003 (News)
  mile 2000X 2.0GLX sold for £3,700 makes Car Giant’s 2000W at £2,999 look ridiculously cheap (see Weekend’s Best Deals). And to rub it in a 39k mile 2000W 2.0 Zetec sold today for £4,200. At least with the upgraded X5 about to hit the streets, old X5s
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  Police Auction Real Crowd Pleaser 13 Dec 2002 (News)
  The public is still hot for meticulously maintained ex-police cars, never mind the mileage, and every lot saw a flurry of hands. There are some very good reasons for this: Most of them are so covered in fluorescent sticky tape that once the auction house removes it they’re
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  Future Classic Friday: Citroen C6 29 Sep 2017 (News)
  lately is still touching £3000, which for a 12-year old Citroën, especially a wafty executive one, is previously unheard of. Did the C6 - the last ever big hydraulically-sprung Citroën and a car that failed to truly capture the imagination of the British public - actually get
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  Santa Pod Run What You Brung 6th March 28 Dec 2010 (News)
   that friends and 'bar-room rivals' get the chance to race side by side and settle old scores on the FIA-approved track, under fully timed conditions.  The more cars that each club pre-books, the more track time will be allocated to them. Spilt into sessions 10 to 20 cars will get
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  Big Premiums Stall at Top Car Today 11 Nov 2002 (News)
  Star of BCA’s Top Car sale at Blackbushe today was undoubtedly a brand new 52 reg BMW M3. Not just any old M3, but a convertible, with a hard top, satnav and the SMG box. It was top of the list in BCA’s own Top Car advertisement. They’re supposed to be hard to get. There has been
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  More Chances at Auction Today 24 Sep 2004 (News)
  Today was a bit better for traders and private buyers alike. Someone bought the 2001/51 facelift BMW 330dSE Touring auto in the photo for just £5,450. True it has been damaged and repaired, the autobox was playing up and, since it had been a police car, only a fool would attempt to clock
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  Heavy Metal at Blackbushe Today 6 Sep 2004 (News)
  Peugeot 106 Independence, possibly part-exchanged for a Boxster S, and concentrate on the 10k mile 11 month old M3 CSL SMG, a car which listed at more than £55k when new and, as far as I can remember, you had to be a licensed racing driver to get the speed limiter removed. Anyway, it didn’t
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  Cars Not Dear at Auction Today 12 Nov 2003 (News)
  Seems the season has finally caught up with the used car trade and there were plenty of good buys at Blackbushe today. Whether the new shape Audi A4 in the photo qualifies depends on your motives. I don’t have to tell you that £8,150 wasn’t a lot of money for a new
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  New Mondeos at Auction Today 14 Sep 2001 (News)
  As predicted, the unloading of 'X' and 'Y' reg ex-rental cars has begun, but in a very controlled manner to try and keep prices as high as possible. The 2001X, 12,617 mile Mondeo 2.0iLX in the photo bid to £9,900 provisional, which is roughly where the first 9 month old batch
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  Honest John Q&A 11th June 2011 11 Jun 2011 (News)
  litre R type diesel engines that have replaced the old belt cam 2.0 diesel and chain cam 2.5 diesel throughout the Hyundai and KIA range of cars, SUVs, vans and trucks. Basically the factory just cannot meet worldwide demand. But there is no such problem with the European built 1.7 chain cam diesel
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  Kit Cars Kids Cars at London Motor Show 20 Jul 2008 (News)
  This year’s London Motor Show, sponsored by Zurich Connect, which runs from 23 July to 3 August, offers visitors 23 world debuts, over 50 UK debuts and more than 600 new and classic cars from 60 vehicle manufacturers. As well as all these exclusive car exhibits the ExCeL-based