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  • Santa Fe Over Book at Auction Today 21 May 2010 (News)
    .   The usual suspects made big money.   A 25k mile 06 Ford Fiesta 1.6TDCI Zetec S sold for £7,300. A 16k mile 2007/57 MINI Cooper S with 17” wheels and leather went for £13,300. A 47k mile Discovery III 2.7TDV6 with leather sold for £16,900. And a 4-month-old 5,000 mile
  • Phenomenal Bargains at Auction Today 24 Oct 2008 (News)
    As Sterling crashes, oil goes up again and Britain officially falls into recession, prices of sports and luxury cars are taking a direct hit. A Y reg Z3 sold for £4,450, a 2005/55 350Z Coupe for £10,400 and, starting at just £17m400 a 2006/56 Porsche Cayman 2.7 sold
  • Nissan 4x4s. New Range. Lower Prices. 22 Apr 2009 (News)
    and Pathfinder to play to their strengths and offer the perfectly tailored 4x4 solution to drivers for whom a regular car or crossover just can’t cut it. “Times might be tough but that doesn’t mean that authentic, practical 4x4s like the X-TRAIL, Navara and Pathfinder are any less
  • Crews cross the finish line in this year's Peking to Paris rally 25 Jul 2016 (News)
    , ‘It is an amazing feeling to have won such an iconic event, thank you to the Endurance Rally Association for another fantastic adventure, meeting up with old friends and making new friends, seeing places in the world that you would never see otherwise. The car is tired and so are Dave and I. We’re looking
  • Warranty Direct Reveals The Most and Least Reliable 4x4s 26 Oct 2011 (News)
    Touareg (2003 onwards). The study of nearly 16,000 three- to eight-year-old 4x4s and SUVs revealed the market segment to have some of the most expensive to run vehicles on Warranty Direct’s books. Nevertheless, with another harsh winter predicted, there’s no better type of vehicle to tackle
  • Today’s Car Auction Prices As Low As They’ll Go 16 Nov 2012 (News)
    It’s mid November and, as has happened every year for the past 20 years, car auction prices have bottomed out. They have reached a point where the fleets would rather hang on to the cars until January when prices traditionally rise rather than sell them for any less
  • Cheapest Qashqai I’ve Seen at Auction Today 29 Oct 2010 (News)
    And it wasn’t that cheap, which shows how high the demand now is for these cars.   This was a 2007/57 1.5DCI Tekna with leather and satnav, but a lumpy 117,000 miles. It started cheap enough at £5,000
  • Motorprovider Full List 25 May 2008 (News)
    www.motorprovider.co.uk full unedited list of offers at 25-5-2008. New cars, new idependent imports, and used cars:- AUDI A4 1.9 TDi 130 SE Tip, 5 Doors, Automatic, Estate, Diesel, 2003 03 Reg, 68,017 miles
  • 05 Jazz Just £5,900 At Auction Today 13 Oct 2006 (News)
    Not everyone’s favourite colour, of course. A sort of Sewage Outflow Green. And only the base model 1.2 with 22,000 miles. But the cheapest 18 month old Jazz I’ve ever seen. A 4k mile 05 reg Citroen Pluriel 1.4 with optional alloys was even cheaper at £5,750. A 70k
  • Prices Strong At Auction Today 5 Mar 2008 (News)
    Part-exchanges have not come through in any numbers yet and the market is starved of the right used cars. So for every car with a queue of buyers there was a bidding battle. Part-exchanges will be slower than usual coming through this year anyway because new cars aren’t getting to the dealers
  • Some Sensible Buys at Auction Today 4 Jul 2007 (News)
    This 65k mile 04 reg Prius II T-Spirit needed a jump to get it started, then mysteriously glided to the hall on its electric motor. But traders were wary, so it started at only £8,000 and bid to £8,500, not selling. Car of the day was the Audi A6. No less than three current
  • Nick Reilly to Run Vauxhall/Opel 11 Nov 2009 (News)
    largest automakers, traces its roots back to 1908.  With its global headquarters in Detroit, GM employs 209,000 people in every major region of the world and does business in some 140 countries.  GM and its strategic partners produce cars and trucks in 34 countries, and sell
  • Standing Room Only At Auction Today 2 Jan 2006 (News)
    started very low at £700, it went on to sell for £2,000. It wasn’t always clear which cars sold, so I’ll list top bids and only state ‘sold’ when I’m pretty sure they did. Audi TT 180 quattro roadster, 02 reg, 28k miles £13,600 sold
  • Austerity Cars Up, High Milers Down at Auction Today 22 Oct 2010 (News)
    Frugal diesels without too many miles on them are making more money in these austere times. But mileage is still a big killer.   A 3 year old W204 Mercedes C200 CDI, about a tenth of its way through its life with 107k
  • Scrappage Survivors and Big Bargains at Auction today 19 Apr 2010 (News)
    Reports that late 1990s cars had all but disappeared due to scrappage seem to have been greatly exaggerated. You couldn’t move for them at auction today.   The more
  • More Opportunities At Auction Today 4 Feb 2008 (News)
    difference to you and me, but in percentage terms the dearer car was 53% more expensive. And someone went stark, staring mad over an 86k mile 7 year old Previa D-4D, paying a crazy £6,200 to drive it home. The fleets seemed to be easing back on reserves. First time I’ve seen
  • May's Best New and Used Car Deals 2 May 2003 (News)
    to fall. Also welcome to old friend Ian Shipton cars now that Ian has a website. Trawl through the list, then link to the websites for the very latest deals. Note: subheads are NOT links, only the links are links. As you get further dowen, information becomes older. Trade Sales
  • Drive it Day 2019 3 Apr 2019 (News)
    booking is essential, so this will be on a first come basis. Contact: For more information please email John Hoare via john2k51@hotmail.com   Devon Vintage Car Club Location: Endsleigh Garden Centre, near Ivybridge, just off the A38 From: 10
  • Weekend's Best Deals at 11th October 11 Oct 2003 (News)
    THE GREAT TRADE CENTRE (Mainly cars 1 – 3 years old at bargain prices. Colossal stocks of 3,000-5,000 cars) T reg Ford Focus 2.0 Ghia 5-dr: from £3,999 (390 Fords in stock) T reg Audi A3 1.6, CD, alys: from £4,999 (200 Audis in stock) T reg
  • SLK for £3,650 at Auction Today 1 Aug 2008 (News)
    Now that realism is finally permeating dealer groups, fleets and private vendors, cars are selling again at auction, but at much lower levels than anyone would have predicted a year ago. The SLK in the photo was a 97P, so eleven years old, and had done 111k miles, but £3,650
 

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