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  Warranty Direct 20% Discount For 04 Reg 8 Mar 2007 (News)
  To encourage owners to maintain a warranty on their three year old cars, Warranty Direct is offering a 20% discount to owners of 04s. This offer is available in March 2007 only. Cover starts at £13 a month. More at www.warrantydirect.co.uk or freephone 0800 731 7001.
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  Mazda 6 2.0TS 136 Diesel Estate Just £14,300 18 Jun 2005 (News)
  www.uk-car-discount.co.uk offers Cheap New Mazda Ex-Demonstrator Diesel Estates in Stock, Saving £5,000 on New Price. 54 Plate vehicles 6 Months old. Prices quoted include 6 months VED and FREE Delivery to your home or place of work.
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  Nissan Takes Scrappers Up To X-Reg 15 May 2009 (News)
  Nissan says it’s best to buy British – and there’s no better way to support the British car industry than by taking advantage of Nissan’s great Trade-in deal. Nissan, Britain’s biggest car maker, is not only taking part in the government’s Scrappage scheme, but it is ready to launch its own new car buying incentive offering a £2,000 minimum trade-in against any of its Sunderland built models for owners of cars aged between 8-10 years old.
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  Should classic cars be scrapped? 6 Oct 2015 (News)
  But we do believe knee-jerk calls of ‘death to old cars’ are ill thought out. In the grand scheme of automotive emissions, old cars have a part to play – but it is a tiny fraction of the part played by modern cars.
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  Owners of Older Cars save most on Motoring 10 Jun 2008 (News)
  Tax, insurance, servicing and fuel can be less than one year's depreciation on a brand new car." Martin Mosley runs the 'Parts for older cars' department at the mail order specialists, Car Parts Direct. Martin's team supplies parts for all makes of vehicles over 20 years old. They have seen a huge increase in the number of motorists putting their older car back on the road in recent months.
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  New Old Shapoe Hyundai Santa Fe Form £14999 6 Apr 2006 (News)
  www.uk-car-discount.co.uk Cheap Brand New (old model)Hyundai Santa Fe Diesels. Prices quoted include 12 months RFL, 1st Registration Fee, Metallic Paint all Included and yes FREE Delivery to your home or place of work.
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  LV= Insurance launches classic car policies 30 Jul 2013 (News)
  The policy is available to drivers aged over 30 years old and can be purchased over the phone. Customers who purchase a classic car policy as their second car insurance policy through LV= will receive a discount. Selwyn Fernandes, Managing Director of LV= car insurance said: 'We recognise that many classic car owners don’t use their car in the same way as a regular car and so we have a created a policy tailored to their requirements.
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  CAR SCRAPPAGE DISCUSSED AT THE TREASURY 24 Feb 2009 (News)
  In Germany owners who scrap cars more than 9 years old receive a grant of 2,500 (2,500 Euros) towards a new car. Commenting on the meeting RMIF Chairman Paul Williams said ‘the introduction of a scrappage scheme for nine-year-old vehicles could create a demand for up to 250,000 new vehicles whilst at the same time remove an equal number of old and more heavily polluting vehicles from our roads for ever’.
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  Europcar Now Rents to 21 Year Olds 21 Feb 2008 (News)
  UK car rental provider, www.europcar.co.uk has joined its sister company National Car Rental to become one of the few rental providers to offer rental to responsible drivers of 21 and over*, and to impose no upper age limit.
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  Mitsubishi Offers Scrappage for 5 - 10 Year Olds 28 May 2009 (News)
  To help maximise on this momentum, we have decided to launch our own scheme, which means a customer can bring in a car as young as 5 years old to any participating Mitsubishi dealer.” With over 17% of new-car customer enquiries now coming via the scrappage scheme route, Mitsubishi has also confirmed that customers can choose from a range of finance plans to suit their pocket with loan periods of 12 months to 5 years, deposits starting at 10% and interest rates as low as 0%.
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  What Effect is a £2,000 Scrappage Scheme Likely to Have? 21 Apr 2009 (News)
  This assumes the scheme will offer people who have owned a car more than nine years old for more than a year a £2,000 scrappage voucher to put against the cost of a car less than 12 months old emitting CO2 of less than 150g/km. The first thing it will do is release cash purchasers who were hanging on to their old cars in the anticipation of a scrappage scheme that would suddenly make a £300 car worth £2,000.
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  HRDC 'Old School' Racing Fulfils its Promise at Brands Hatch 12 Apr 2011 (News)
  Two packed grids - for pre-1960s Touring Cars and pre-1966, sub-1500cc, GT Cars respectively - offered a diverse range of cars in two, thrilling 30-minute races on the Brands Hatch Indy circuit. 'Touring Greats' presented a 30-car race grid made up of no fewer than 23 models from 15 different marques.
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  Rat Rods at the NSRA Supernationals Gallery 13 Aug 2016 (News)
  Rat roads in abundance at the NSRA Supernationals 12th/13th and tomorrow Sunday 14th August at Old Warden Park, Bedfordshire SG18 9EA. Hot Road heaven for anyone with a hankering for American cars.
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  TV's Fuzz Townshend needs your help! 30 Mar 2016 (News)
  'Using Fuzz’s experience we’ve started the journey and now we want to hear what car owners have to say so we can create the ultimate ‘Old Car Smell’ which encompasses the nation’s favourite memories with their cars into one nostalgic fragrance.' To help Fuzz and Carole Nash get it right, click here to tell them about your favourite old car smells.
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  Advent Calendar Competition Day 21 Prize - Firefly Lesson 21 Dec 2017 (News)
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  NSRA Supernationals Top Ten Gallery 13 Aug 2016 (News)
  It's the NSRA Supernationals 12th/13th and tomorrow Sunday 14th August at Old Warden Park, Bedfordshire SG18 9EA. Hot Road heaven for anyone with a hankering for American cars. 900hp 9.3 litre alloy block '27 Model T. 9.54 ET in 1/4 mile.   Supercharged 1,400HP Chevy Silverado. 10.58 ET in 1/4 milw.
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  Used car prices rise by up to 57 per cent 22 Oct 2021 (News)
  AA Cars said that a five year-old MINI currently costs 15 per cent more than a three year-old car did in 2019, meaning it has gained in value despite getting two years older.  Toyota Aygo owners who bought a three-year-old model in 2019 could find their car is now worth 11 per cent more, while Volkswagen Golf owners could make a similar profit of 9.5 per cent.
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  Skoda Estelle 105S in Friday's 'Flipping Bangers' 29 May 2019 (News)
  The theme of the show is finding an unloved old car, bringing it back to life, applying a few tricks to make it more attractive and then attempting to double the investment. The challenge comes from starting an online auction immediately the car arrives in the workshop to get it gone in 5 days time.
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  Old Honda Civic Britain's Most Reliable Car 29 Apr 2006 (News)
  http://www.reliabilityindex.co.uk/default.html?apc=311" target="_blank">www.reliabilityindex.co.uk of 48,000 cars shows the old shape Honda Civic from 2001-2005 to have been cheapest in Warranty Direct warranty claims. Despite a fairly high average repair cost, the total number of claims were low, giving it an index of just 16,75 compared to an average of 67,39 and average repair cost of £238.95.
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  Fleets vote BMW most reliable make under 3 years old, Honda Civic most reliable car. 7 Nov 2009 (News)
  Research into nearly 900,000 cars operated by the country’s biggest 50 leasing companies has found that BMW Group’s model range at under 3 years old is the most reliable in Britain – for the second year in a row.