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  New KIA Shuma II, from just £8,995 25 Feb 2002 (News)
  KIA has relaunched its Shuma 5-door hatchback as the new look Shuma II with a new interior and with prices from just £8,995 (the same as Citroen's current price for the Xsara 1.4LX with a/c). The size of the cars is similar to that of the Mitsubishi Carisma, Skoda Octavia and old Vauxhall
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  Five Grand Friday: Suzuki Swift Sport 28 Aug 2015 (News)
  look past this stylish black example we found in the classifieds. There are lots of Swifts on the used market with bonnet stripes and the like, but this more sombre model still has plenty of appeal. Not least because it has only covered 36,000 miles - slightly below average for a four-year-old car
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  Top Car End of Year Clearance Today 9 Dec 2002 (News)
  It’s getting near the end of the year and time to balance the books, so today, to my eyes, at least 75% of the Top Car entries at Blackbushe looked to have sold. Useful info for the people who write the trade guides was seeing a 14k mile 2002/51 reg BMW 735i which lists
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  Auction Prices Very Slightly Down Today 8 Dec 2006 (News)
  BCA reports that in November 2006, auction prices for the three-year-old, 60,000-mile 'fleet' cars averaged £6,524 - down just £57 on October’s figure, but up £162 against the same month last year. In 2005, the fall between October and November was a £150
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  MOTORPOINT STAR DEALS OF THE WEEK 17 Apr 2009 (News)
  www.motorpoint.co.uk Best buys 15th - 22nd April, while stocks last. Deal of the Week Peugeot 307 1.6 HDi 110 S 5dr Manual. 07 Reg (TWO YEARS OLD). Only 11,010 miles at £7,299 This model comes fitted with ABS, Air Conditioning, Alloy Wheels, CD
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  DB6 Made £324,000 at Harrogate Auction 29 Apr 2008 (News)
  Despite the doom and gloom pervading the current economic climate, H&H enjoyed a notably successful sale on its first visit to Harrogate. Auction goers old and new were bowled over by the Harrogate International Centre's spacious indoor exhibition facilities. Newly refurbished
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  Honest John's Motoring Agony Column: 23-5-2015 23 May 2015 (News)
  .   Losing his air I have a 6-year old Audi RS4 Avant and the aircon compressor needs replacing. The local Audi garage where I bought it from new has quoted me 2000 in labour as they say that it needs a major strip-down. The compressor will be £900, but as the car is fairly new Audi
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  Bentleys dominate Baltic Classic Rally 13 Jun 2017 (News)
  :39 ahead of Gavin and Diana Henderson’s 1965 Porsche 911. Third place went to David and Jo Roberts in the 1968 Triumph TR250. Rene said, ‘Along with winning, the best thing about being on the rally was meeting old friends and making new ones.  We will come back
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  Foreign entries rev up for Croft Nostalgia Weekend 1 Aug 2011 (News)
  to shine in front of their home crowd – among them 18-year-old James Buckton from Harrogate in his historic Elden Formula Ford, York’s Robert Rook and Selby’s Jim Clark in their Ford Lotus Cortinas, fellow saloon car racer Andy Yool from Barrow-in-Furness in his Ford Anglia, Workington’s Robert Gates
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  Honest John's Motoring Agony Column 11-4-2015 11 Apr 2015 (News)
  to: letters@honestjohn.co.uk   Please try to keep them as short as possible.   A Legend in her own lifetime I am a 78-year old woman currently driving a 1992 Honda Legend that has done 107,000 miles. The car just passed its latest MoT, but my garage warns that since
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  Honest John's Motoring Agony Column 4 Apr 2015 (News)
  then also 6 years old. You should press MB to pay, saying it is a safety concern.   Crash cams An in-car camera seems to me to be potentially useful not just
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  GM Becomes 'Government Motors' 11 Jul 2009 (News)
  for General Motors, one that will allow every employee, including me, to get back to the business of designing, building and selling great cars and trucks and serving the needs of our customers,” said Fritz Henderson, president and CEO. “We are deeply appreciative for the support we have received
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  More Cheap Part-Exchanges at Auction Today 5 Nov 2007 (News)
  It’s the season to be cheerful. Part-exchanges are now coming through thick and fast and the dealer chains need their money back. Today, this decent enough old lump of a Volvo: 88F and showing 185k miles started at £20 and sold for £200. A bashed about
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  E60 525d Sold For £11,600 at Auction Today 30 Apr 2007 (News)
  I’d seen with steel wheels. A 97P Mondeo V6 Ghia X looked very cheap at £275, but was, of course, 10 years old and could have had any number of expensive faults. While a 1989 Espace for £120 was for nothing. Please note that to help prevent cars disappearing Auctions are now
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  Three Sucata Charity Banger Rallies This Summer 29 Mar 2012 (News)
  into the bargain.  Each team member is asked to raise a minimum of £250 for Gemin-i, and are asked to use an old cars (always affectionately referred to as ‘bangers’) worth less than £350. One hundred percent of the money raised goes directly
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  1962 E-Type Roadster ex-Nina Aga Khan Up For Auction Today 22 Nov 2016 (News)
  , an Englishman holidaying in Jamaica last year, was told of two old cars in storage on the island. He duly went to see them, finding a red E-Type coupe and the cream roadster. A deal was struck and the roadster was soon on its way back to the UK. It was only after he applied for a Heritage Certificate that he
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  Gender-neutral policies - what to do if you're a woman driver 26 Nov 2012 (News)
  that they will introduce gender neutral car insurance premiums from 21 December.' A quick shop on www.gocompare.com backs this up, showing that there are still differences between male and female policies. Quoting for a fictional 21-year old woman and man, driving a five year old Citroen C2, living at the same
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  The MoT Files: Exemption for pre-1960s cars. Do the numbers stack up? 6 May 2014 (News)
  , and the overall pass rate for pre-1960 cars was 85 per cent, better than the 80 per cent for 2010. Looking at it this way, the argument for keeping the test on pre-1960 cars seems about as strong as that for introducing the test on two year old cars. But - and this is a big one - is that you could argue
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  Preview: Barons Jaguar Heritage Auction, Sandown Park 29 Mar 2013 (News)
  XK120 Drophead Coupé was comprehensively and sympathetically restored in 2011/12 by Old School Engineering in Wales, with the aim of restoring it to original, factory specification with no modern upgrades. The one concession to modern motoring is a period-style radio with FM and iPod
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  Scrappage in the USA 31 Jul 2009 (News)
  at least 18 mpg and be at least 4 mpg greener in order to qualify for the rebate. Congress’s prudish green plan is limited to a measly 250,000 trade-ins, as a host of new cars sitting on dealer lots don’t qualify for the program. Want to trade in your old 2000 Ford Explorer SUV