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  61-plate deals from Autofinders 4 Aug 2011 (News)
  Mazda 6 2.2 TS2 diesel 163PS , in both five-door and estate forms, from £17,995 saving more than £4,000 Audi Q5 2.0 TDI Quattro S Line Special Edition in Ibis white with privacy glass, navigation and loads more options for £35,695, a huge saving on a car with a long lead time Skoda Yeti 2.0 TDI 140PS DSG 4x4 Elegance in a choice of colours. The Yeti normally has a 6-8 month delivery time. Ford Kuga 2.0 TDCi 163PS AWD Titanium for £21,995, a huge saving over the list price.
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  BMW now selling parts via eBay 9 May 2011 (News)
  We recognise that there are customers who wish to buy BMW products but do not necessarily want to travel to a BMW dealer to make a purchase. Angus McCarey, UK Retail Director of eBay, said: “eBay UK is home to over 100 leading brands who realise the added value an eBay shop brings, whether they are already selling online or not. There are over 600,000 searches for BMW every month on eBay and BMW will now be able to access this existing, yet untapped customer base, while increasing its reach to the millions of other consumers who buy and sell on the site.”
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  Toyota Invites Hybrid Owners to Beat the Official Economy Figures 5 Apr 2011 (News)
  The challenge runs throughout April and May, coinciding with a new nationwide ad campaign which is using TV, billboards and print and digital media to spread the word about Toyota’s world leading technology, not only in the Prius and Auris models on sale today, but also in the forthcoming Prius+ MPV and the Yaris Hybrid Concept that was unveiled at the Geneva motor show. More at Toyota
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  Fixed Cut Price Skoda Octavia. Only £10,995. 17 Mar 2011 (News)
  The Octavia already has a reputation as a great family car thanks to its combination of style, reliability, comfort and class-leading interior space. But don’t just take our word for it – the Octavia was recently awarded by What Car? readers as the Best Small Family Car. Škoda also picked up the award for Best Manufacturer, and came out top in the Auto Express Driver Power Awards.
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  Sensational Chevrolet Deals for September 16 Sep 2010 (News)
  Order a new Chevrolet before the end of September and you can save as much as £3,400, with the impressively equipped Cruze 1.6S saloon on offer from an astonishing £9,995 on the road – against a list price of £13,395. That’s a spacious family saloon with a class-leading five-star Euro NCAP crash test rating for less than many superminis. With air conditioning, remote central locking, electric front windows and a CD stereo system. There are also some incredible savings on offer on the new Spark – Chevrolet’s smooth riding urban hatchback.
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  Air con bills rise as the weather warms up 20 Jul 2010 (News)
  As temperatures rise, leading warranty provider, Warranty Direct, reveals that the UK's motorists will be sweating over £237m worth of air con repairs to their cars*. Data from the past 12 months shows that air conditioning units account for 1 in 60 mechanical failures.
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  Pipercross releases new Megane 3 panel filters 14 Jul 2010 (News)
  This same construction means that the filter can also go longer between service intervals than even leading cotton-gauze filters, before needing to be cleaned. Despite these impressive abilities, all Pipercross panel filters come with a lifetime warranty and can be easily cleaned again and again for re-use, providing years of faithful service and paying for themselves many times over.
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  Ford announces 'most fuel-efficient car yet' 1 Dec 2009 (News)
  Among these features is Low Tension Front End Accessory Drive. This makes uses of an alternator bracket and pulley system to reduce belt friction, leading to less consumption. Ford Auto-Start-Stop is a function that automatically shuts down the engine when the car is idle - which the carmaker said can save up to five per cent in carbon emissions.
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  KIA Cuts Prices as Well as Raising Them 1 Apr 2009 (News)
  So any astute buyers out there could bag themselves a bargain by picking up a cee'd SW 2.0 CRDi Sport with Kia's leading seven-year warranty and a £2,500 contribution to their finance package. Other examples of this offer includes a £750 finance contribution on the new segment busting Soul with five-year warranty making it this seasons must have accessory.
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  No congestion charge for some Fiats in rule change 15 Feb 2008 (News)
  That means fee-free London motoring for the Fiat 500 1.2 (119g/km) and 1.3 16v (110g/km) in Pop, Lounge and Sport trim, the Panda 1.3 MultiJet Dynamic (114g/km), the Grande Punto 1.3 MultiJet Active and Dynamic three and five-door models (119g/km), and the new mid-size Bravo 1.6 MultiJet 105 with Special Eco-pack (119g/km). “Fiat is determined to lead when it comes to environmentally-friendly motoring,” says Elena Bernardelli, marketing director, Fiat Group Automobiles UK Ltd. “And these new rules enable our customers to save money as well as feel better about our environment.
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  Up to £2,025 Off Hyundais from Hyundai 8 Jul 2006 (News)
  MPV Deals * £1,000 saving on Matrix 1.6 litre GSI * £1,225 saving on Matrix 1.8 litre GSI * £2,025 saving on Trajet manual * £1,895 saving on Trajet automatic SUV Deals * 3 years’ free servicing for all Tucson SUVs New Accent Atlantic * 3 years’ free servicing on new Hyundai Accent Atlantic special edition at £8,995, available from 1st August 2006 More offers are available, which customers can find out about through their local Hyundai dealership and online at Hyundai’s official website, www.hyundai.co.uk . All these summer offers are in addition to Hyundai’s unique and industry-leading seal of quality, its five-year unlimited-mileage, fully transferable warranty.
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  New Car Discount Offers 7% off Golf Mk V 2 Feb 2004 (News)
  www.new-car-discount.com has stock of GT TDI 5-dr and 3-dr, and SE 1.6 and TDI 5-dr and 3-dr available within 10 days. Autos have longer lead times. Prices as follows:- Golf GT TDI 5dr 140 list price £18530 NCD £17278 Golf GT TDI 3dr 140 list price £18030 NCD £16813 Golf GTI FSI 2.0 Auto 5dr list price £19500 NCD £18180 Golf GTI FSI 2.0 5dr list price £18185 NCD £16957 Golf GTI FSI 2.0 3dr list price £17685 NCD £16492 Golf SE TDI 3dr list price £15680 NCD £14627 Golf SE TDI 5dr list price £16180 NCD £15092 Golf SE FSi 5dr 1.6 Auto list price £16605 NCD £15488 Golf SE FSi 5dr 1.6 list price £15285 NCD £14260 Link here www.new-car-discount.com
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  Report: Peking to Paris, day five 2 Jun 2013 (News)
  Ulaan Bataar - Rest Day Retirements and lead changes are the big news on what is supposed to be rest day on the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge 2013. It’s a rest day for the rally crews, but to walk around the car park you wouldn’t know it.
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  Order a New Mazda6 Skyactiv and Maybe Pay Nothing At All 6 Nov 2012 (News)
  .  Together with SKYACTIV powertrains, the SKYACTIV-Chassis and SKYACTIV-Body make the all-new Mazda6 an engaging and rewarding drive, delivering refined, linear handling, segment-leading safety and a uniquely efficient and lightweight design. Buyers of the new Mazda6 have a choice of four high-efficiency SKYACTIV powertrains with six-speed automatic or manual transmissions.  The 2.0-litre SKYACTIV-G petrol engines produce 145ps and 165ps, while the 2.2-litre SKYACTIV-D diesel engines generate 150ps and 175ps with 380Nm and 420Nm of torque (respectively) at 2,000rpm.
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  Electric Toyota to Tackle Pike's Peak Hillclimb 9 Jun 2012 (News)
  Ludwig Zeller, General Manager Electric & Electronics: “Pikes Peak is a great showcase for TMG’s electric powertrain technology. We already proved at the Nürburgring that TMG is leading the way in developing such powertrains for motorsport and this is another sign of our commitment to this technology. TMG wants to be increasingly involved in electric motorsport and we believe our powertrain technology is an industry-leading combination of performance, durability and packaging.
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  Smartphone App Helps Keep You Under The Limits 8 Dec 2009 (News)
    Drivers keen to keep on the right side of the law can now download an affordable speed camera locator application direct to their mobile phone, courtesy of RoadPilot, Europe’s leading provider of speed camera data. RoadPilot Mobile is available on an annual subscription basis (price to be announced shortly), but to mark the launch of its latest product, RoadPilot is offering RoadPilot Mobile on a no-strings 30-day free trial to those who download the application before 31 January 2010.
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  Monte Carlo Challenge Mini for sale 8 Oct 2019 (News)
  .  While the car started life as a standard production Mini-Minor, it has been modified to rally specification. In fact, it lead the first Monte Carlo Challenge in 1990 until a navigation error on the final day saw it drop back to finish ninth. There are extensive hand-written diary notes of car 60’s historic drive by drivers Shand and Mackley in which they note the darkness of midnight in the Alps with ice on the inside of the windows making visibility difficult and later a furious policeman in Monte Carlo with his hand on his gun watching them lost and  struggling and trying to exit a tiny square in the Principality.
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  A Grand Monday: Jaguar S-TYPE 3.0 SE 8 Jul 2019 (News)
  .  Sadly, the Ford influence also extended to the quality of the metal used on the S-TYPE’s sills and floors, which were as prone to corrosion in later life as the Mk6 Escort, leading to many an example falling prematurely by the wayside.  The ones that have survived, however, are the good ones, and a quick glance at the service history of  this week’s classified online bargain  suggests that rot isn’t an issue.
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  Volvo XC60 named UK Car of the Year 23 Feb 2018 (News)
  Launched in 2014, the UK Car of the Year Awards are judged by Britain’s leading motoring journalists and each judge uses their expertise to pick out the top performer in 13 vehicle categories, before deciding the overall winner from their favourites in each class.  As well as taking the top honour, the XC60 also took the award for Best Medium Crossover, while the Kodiaq won the Best Large Crossover title.
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  Recording-breaking BTCC Sierra Cosworth for sale 8 Feb 2018 (News)
  It could fetch as much as £175,000 to £220,000. This record-breaking Cosworth RS500 dominated the Group A 1990 BTCC season with lead driver Robb Gravett behind the wheel. For the long distance two-driver races Robb was supported by Stig Blomqvist at Donnington and the late and Mike Smith at Brands Hatch. Now it is being publicly offered for sale for the very first time after being in storage for 20 years.