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  Still Some Auction Bargains, But Not Many Shopping Days Left 17 Dec 2003 (News)
  http://www.auctionview.co.uk/source/av/login.asp" target="_blank">www.auctionview.co.uk to find our when it’s next driving past the block. Probably Friday. And you still get surprises. The last thing you expect in a part-exchange clearout sale is a pristine, only-just-serviced, 35,000 mile 1984 Ferrari Mondial (very nearly 20 years old).
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  ‘January Jump’ Starts Early at BCA Blackbushe 15 Nov 2002 (News)
  Okay, Golf Mk IV V5 170, then. Though they could work out very dear to buy new, these were never a brilliant drive. This one was 2001Y with 26k and the bidding started at £9,000. But then, first by hundreds, then by fifties, then by twenty-fives, it still crept up to sell for £10,625. Behind book a bit maybe, but still far from cheap.
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  Audi TT for £11,900 at Auction Today 25 Sep 2002 (News)
  The 99S (98 build) Audi TT 180 in the photo was a LHD with 40,661 kilometres unwarranted and, like most LHD TT180s, was just front wheel drive, not a Quattro. But stick a private plate on it and who’s to know? Still bags of pulling power for £11,900. A 27,000 mile 2001X Volvo S60 2.4T (200ps) Geartronic auto which has been hanging around the halls for several weeks was finally let go for £11,450: just over half its new list price.
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  Heavy Metal Sensible Money at Top Car 2 Sep 2002 (News)
  Big Fleet Auction of 4x4s Tomorrow Brightwells Auctioneers of Leominster, Herefordshire, who hold the Country’s biggest 4x4 Sales, will be offering 30 4x4s from Bank of Scotland at their next Four Wheel Drive Auction on September 3rd. These include: Trooper, Cherokee, Discovery, CRV, Freelander, Explorer and Shogun. They are ex-lease vehicles, one registered owner with documents supplied and, if supported by service and maintenance printouts, mileage readings will be warranted.
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  Round up of the latest manufacturer offers 22 Aug 2011 (News)
  The C70 offers the most free equipment – a £1500 upgrade lands you £6,775 of optional equipment, including premium audio system, sat nav, keyless drive, sovereign hide leather and integrated sat nav.    More Volvo new car deals
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  Today's Motor Show News 26 Jul 2008 (News)
  Navigate your way through green tips with Citroen Citroen is rewarding 'green' thinking at this year's British International Motor Show with a competition to win a TomTom satellite navigation system. The initiative is being run from a Citroen Picasso on display at the Greener Driving Pavilion at the Show and is centered on ten top tips to help motorists improve their environmental driving credentials. To stand a chance of winning, all visitors need to do is pick up a leaflet and answer a simple question based on the top tips, which include, keeping your tyres correctly inflated, as this could improve fuel consumption by 4%, assisting your car's aerodynamics by removing roof racks when not in use and not having windows open when traveling at high speeds.
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  Race to the finish for winners of Paris-Biarritz rally 9 Oct 2019 (News)
  They also visited the Charade circuit located west of Clermont-Ferrand, its first event in 1958 won by Innes Ireland driving a Lotus. The next Rally Round event is the Flight of the Condor, a competitive rally through Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in South America which starts on 10 November 2019.
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  Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 set for Autosport auction 4 Jan 2019 (News)
  Finished in Grand Prix White with Carrera script, green lettering and wheels, as well as numerous options. The left-hand drive also spent some of its early years in the United States. It was then imported back to Germany in July 1986 when it was purchased by the President of the German Classic Porsche 911 Club, Wolfram Thonemann, who obtained the apt registration 'K-RS 911’.
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  New £2000 diesel scrappage scheme set to be announced 20 Apr 2017 (News)
  The rules effectively mean that petrol cars over ten years old and diesel cars more than two years old in 2017 will not comply when the scheme is introduced in 2019. The new taxes hope to lower NOx emissions by 50 per cent in 2020, but will bring the cost of driving a non-compliant car in central London to £24 per day.
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  NEC Classic Motor Show 2016: Records tumble at auction 15 Nov 2016 (News)
  The record didn’t stand long, though, as just half an hour later a right-hand drive 1989 Porsche 911 (930) Turbo Flachbau was offered (pictured above). Finished in Guards Red, it sold for £211,500 – another new world record price. Porsche collectors were spoilt at the sale.
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  Surprising and delightful vehicles in Historics 26th November Classic Auction 3 Nov 2016 (News)
  Running a turbocharged 660cc 4-cylinder kei-car engine and 5-speed transmission it had a top speed of 115mph and a 0-60 of 8 seconds. This example is one owner, offered for sale by the original owner and is allegedly huge fun to drive. Estimated at £13,000 to £18,000. The 1997 Renault Sport Spider was an attempt by the French manufacturer at an affordable ready-made racer with its own race series.
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  Mini to be auctioned for charity 31 Oct 2016 (News)
  Millie moved to Steyning in the early 1980s, and continued to use the car regularly around the area until she took the decision to stop driving simply because she worried that if she was involved in any form of accident she would automatically be blamed because of her age. Margo was eventually inherited by Mrs Properjohns’ daughter, Joan, when Millie passed away at the fine age of 100 years and six weeks, who stored the car in a garage in 2004.  Now returned to her original condition in gleaming Tartan Red, the campaign will reach its climax when Margo tempts bidders at auction when offered without reserve as part of Silverstone Auctions’ catalogue at its Classic Motor Show Sale at the NEC.
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  A Grand Monday: Lada Samara 10 Oct 2016 (News)
  Launched in its homeland in 1984 as the rather more sexy-sounding Lada Sputnik, it would be another four years before Lada - or VAZ, as the company was known in Russia - would be able to export the car, such was the pent-up demand for the new model in its home market. The three or five-door hatchback was Lada’s first foray into front-wheel-drive, and a massive step forward from the old-fashioned Fiat 124-based Riva models. It came with Lada’s own range of OHC engines (an adventure itself in terms of parts availability today), but UK buyers were sadly denied the opportunity to buy the Mazda RX-7-style twin rotary Wankel engine variant.
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  Super Rare Apollo Buick Among Spectacular New Entries to Historics 11th June Brooklands Auction 18 May 2016 (News)
  This was linked to a Borg Warner 4-speed manual box and the first Apollo steel bodies were built and trimmed in early 1963 by Intermeccanica of Turin. The cars were then shipped to Oakland, California where the drive train was installed. With 200HP, the car was good for 0-60 in 8.2 and a claimed top speed of 150mph. Slightly behind a contemproary Jaguar E-Type 3.8, but Historics car is a later 5000GT with power upped to 250HP.
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  Coys to hold two classic car auctions on the same day 13 Jan 2016 (News)
  This car was purchased in September 1960 by Ken Tyrell and driven on its first outing by none other than world champion and racing legend John Surtees at the Oulton Park Gold Cup on 24 September that year. Henry Taylor then went on to win the British Empire Trophy in October driving this car. Other important lots include a 1985 MG Metro 6R4, the original Rothmans team car (£85,000 to £95,000), a 1974 Ferrari Dino 246 GT (£230,000 to £265,000) and a 1958 Aston DB2/4 Mark III, with only two owners in 29 years (£100,000 to £115,000).
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  A Grand Monday: Ford Sierra Mk1 7 Sep 2015 (News)
  Controversial when new, it polarised opinion so much that even Ford’s senior management were concerned it was too avant-garde. Yet despite its humble underpinnings (live rear axle, rear-wheel-drive and Pinto engine), there’s no denying that the slippery Sierra was one of the cars that truly redefined the direction of car design. It was imitated by many and bettered by quite a few, but that doesn’t alter the fact it was the first mainstream car to properly step away from the traditional ‘three-box’ layout that had become the norm, and for that it sparked a design revolution.
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  Chris Evans has a clear-out for Goodwood Revival auction 17 Aug 2015 (News)
  Almost certain to achieve the highest price is Chris’ 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/6C, its top-end estimate of almost £3 million being aided by the sheer rarity of an alloy-bodied right-hand drive example. Cheapest car on offer is a modified Abarth-badged Fiat 126 of 1983 vintage, which is expected to fetch up to £15,000. Meanwhile, anyone interested in classic British sportsters who has around £60,000 to splash out will no doubt be tempted by the ex-police Daimler SP250 ‘Dart’ and the ’58 Jaguar XK150 Fixed Head Coupe.
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  Lovett Porsche wins Trans American challenge 2015 30 Jun 2015 (News)
  ERA Rally Director Fred Gallagher said, ‘This has been another superb event with a fantastic mix of cars, crews and driving skills. Corvette tackles the Neeldes Highway in South Dakota ‘Our Clerk of the Course Kim Bannister planned a brilliant route which offered iconic scenery, competitive tests and challenging terrain – everything you could hope for in an event such as this.’ Around 40 vintage and classic cars arrived at the San Francisco finish line of the Endurance Rally Association’s second Trans-America Challenge, having crossed 15 states and travelled 9,500 kilometres by its end.
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  Royal Maserati returns home before auction 5 Mar 2015 (News)
  Chris Routledge, managing partner of Coys, said, ‘This car is one of only eight right hand drive examples produced, with just 28,300 miles and two owners from new.’ The Quattroporte remained in the Princess’ ownership for a further 25 years, during which time the she re-married to the 2nd Viscount Camrose, the former chairman of the Daily Telegraph, and was latterly known as Lady Camrose.
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  2nd Classic Auction Same Day: H&H Buxton 12th November 2014 10 Nov 2014 (News)
  Peugeot 205GTIs have been rising rapidly and though this 1991J 1.9 has a sunroof, which makes it less desirable for track days, it’s still a fun drive and is likely to appreciate past its £3,000 - £4,000 estimate. For off road enthusiasts, there’s a 2007 Foers Ibex, built by John Foers using Landrover running gear and a bespoke spaceframe to give greater ground clearance and better approach/departure angles. Estimated at £16,000 - £18,000.