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  Renault 16 anniversary marked with Monte Carlo historic rally entry 23 Jan 2015 (News)
  . Car number 16 will be drive by ex-Formula 1 driver Michel Leclère. The winner of the 1969 Premier Pas Dunlop Gordini Cup will be joined in the car by Laurent Lamat and Gilles Dubois, winners of a competition organised by FCRA (Fédération des Clubs Renault et Alpine). Meanwhile
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  Nissan Juke-R to see limited production 3 May 2012 (News)
  Nissan’s bonkers Juke-R , which features the all-wheel drive system and engine from the GT-R sports car, is to go into limited production, with prices expected to be around £125,000. Nissan originally produced the Juke-R
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  Dacia coming to UK in 2013 13 Sep 2011 (News)
  -litre dCi diesel engines and 1.6-litre petrol engines, with either front-wheel drive or a well proven Nissan four-wheel drive system, although the specifics of UK cars will likely change by the time it comes to market here. The prices in Europe start at around 12,000 Euros.
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  Motorists 'happy with their Skoda vehicles' 18 Apr 2008 (News)
  People in the UK driving Skoda automobiles have told an Auto Express poll that they are very happy with their vehicles. The Driver Power survey from the publication saw 32,000 motorists give feedback on around 6,000 cars. Some 85 per cent of people responded that they were happy
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  Italian Car Track Day at Mercedes Benz World 27 Mar 2007 (News)
  As part of the Brooklands Spring Italian Car Day on 5th May, for the first time ever you can drive your own car on the MB World test tracks, Three fast laps for just £25 (+ entry to Spring Italian Car Day extra). Places are very limited. Email
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  New Year Offers from KIA 22 Dec 2005 (News)
  www.kia.co.uk has announced its New Year Offers early. The drive away for £1 deposit offer remains and includes 7 days free insurance. The Picanto comes with one year’s free insurance and with prices starting
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  'Silly-one' Gets Serious 11 Jun 2002 (News)
  to 60 in 9.4 seconds and can manage 60mpg on the motorway.) There's also a new part-time four wheel drive '4trak' 1.3 at £9,995 which should be good in the snow, and Rally 2 and Rally 4 versions. The 110bhp Rally 2 does 115mph and gets to 60 in 7.9 seconds, while the heavier four
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  Chrysler Crossfire in Production 2003 7 Mar 2002 (News)
  Chrysler has announced that European production of its exciting Crossfire coupe is to commence at the Karmann works in Germany in early 2003, and right hand drive imports to the UK are scheduled for late 2003. The car is powered by a longitudinally front-mounted 3.2 litre 90 degree V6
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  Fuel cost savings wiped out 19 Apr 2001 (News)
  www.theaa.com at the end of April, shows that, for the first time in at least five years, motorists doing around 5000 miles a year will see their motoring costs dip while higher mileage drivers are worse off. Even so, owners of 1101-1549cc cars driving up to 5,000 miles a year pay an average of 59.16 pence per
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  Plymouth - Dakar £100 Banger Rally 22 Aug 2002 (News)
  £100 and in order to keep costs to a minimum, those vehicles that make it to Senegal will be given away to charity before the contestants fly home. Rally organiser Julian Nowill will be driving a Lada Riva Estate which he found abandoned in Exeter with Council stickers on the windows
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  Automatic 'Smart City' Braking Standard on new Mazda CX-5 8 Jun 2015 (News)
  Mazda has developed a new advanced safety technology called ‘Smart City Brake Support' (SCBS), which helps a driver to avoid a frontal collision when driving at low speeds in the city or in slow moving traffic.  The SCBS system will make its first appearance fitted as standard
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  Frankfurt Motor Show 2015: Jaguar F-Pace Breaks Guinness World Record 14 Sep 2015 (News)
  .   The new Jaguar F-Pace ‘crossover’ SUV comes with Ingenium 2.0 litre petrol diesel or petrol engines, rear wheel drive or four wheel drive, manual or 8-speed ZF automatic transmissions: or 3.0 litre V6 petrol or diesel engines with automatic transmissions and four wheel drive only
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  Common Sense From the IAM About Driving in Difficult Conditions 27 Oct 2013 (News)
  Now that the clocks have gone back bringing night an hour earlier the IAM's Peter Rodger, first offers advice about driving in the dark. To improve your view as far as possible, keep your lights and windscreen clean. It’s easy to forget the inside of the windows
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  Hyundai Discounts up to £5,712 via Drivethedeal 3 Aug 2012 (News)
  Active 5dr £9,035 Saving £2,560 * (23.5%) Hyundai i20 1.4 CRDi Blue Drive Active 5dr £10,383 Saving £3,111 *(24%) Hyundai iX20 1.4 Active 5dr £11,545 Saving £1,715 * Hyundai iX20 1.6 CRDi Blue Drive Active 5dr £12,995 Saving
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  A rugged winter weather solution - Lada Niva 1 Sep 2011 (News)
  Kuga , but to get a four-wheel drive version there’s a premium over the two-wheel drive model. Luckily, if you’re after a new car that’s useable in the most extreme conditions but you’re not willing to pay a premium for it, there’s a solution, and it comes from Russia, where vehicles need
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  Megane 265 breaks Nurburgring lap record 17 Jun 2011 (News)
  With a time of 8 minutes 08 seconds the new limited edition Mégane Renaultsport 265 Trophy has set a new benchmark time for a production-specification front-wheel drive car at the Nürburgring’s infamous Nordschleife circuit. This performance beats
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  'Driver mode' could soon auto-disable your phone 24 Nov 2016 (News)
  in “distraction-affected” collisions. “…the agency believes that an important way to help mitigate the real-world risk posed by driver distraction from portable devices is for these devices to have limited functionality and simplified interfaces when they are used by drivers while driving
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  Parents are the safest drivers, says research 23 Nov 2016 (News)
  Brits" drive more safely after the birth of their children.  In fairness, following the results the company conducted some road-based research with the British School of Motoring, and found that parent drivers are indeed more alert while driving. You can see the video below
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  Ford Model A sets new world record 10 Jun 2014 (News)
  An Australian classic car owner has set a new world record for driving across Australia and back again in a pre-WWII car. Rod Wade, aged 71, and his team covered 5592 miles in a 1930 Ford Model A in a fundraising challenge for Kidney Health Australia. The driving duo set
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  Dashcam Catches Red Light Crash 6 Feb 2014 (News)
  the SmartWitness  in-car camera requested that a copy of the video recording be produced as evidence. When they saw the vehicle CCTV they said it was clearly proof of careless driving against the Skoda driver. The Skoda driver, a Russian national who was fully insured, was subsequently prosecuted