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  VW Revives Microbus 13 Mar 2001 (News)
  VW continues to test the market for its second retro model, the Microbus, at car shows around the world. The concept vehicle is 4,722mm long, 1,904mm high and 1,909mm wide. (Note that its height disqualifies it from the best discounted fares on the Eurotunnel Shuttle.)
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  5 Year Warranty for Protons 3 Jan 2001 (News)
  Malaysian car maker Proton has announced a full manufacturer five year warranty on all Protons sold through its UK dealers from 1/1/2001. Power-train and body is warranted for a further year, as before, and all new Proton owners continue to benefit from three years RAC membership.
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  New Audi A4 15 Oct 2000 (News)
  Diesels include a 130bhp 1.9 litre TDI PD, a 155bhp 2.5 litre V6 TDI and a 180bhp version of the same engine for the Quattro TDI. Journalists get their first chance to drive the new car at the end of October and UK launch date is set as early Spring.
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  Hyundai and Kia admit to wrong mpg figures 5 Nov 2012 (News)
  Essentially all manufacturers have to put their cars through the same test which should mean a level playing field. However, every car manufacturer is going to tune their car to perform well in this test. This explains the prevalence of small turbocharged engines.
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  Watch Hugarian GP Live at Mazda Stand 31 Jul 2008 (News)
  ” Mazda’s design team in California started with the chassis of the Mazda triple-rotor-engined AMLS Courage C65 race car which races successfully in the American Le Mans series. To this they added a closed cockpit and elements of the Nagare design language which Mazda is now using on its production cars. There are no plans to race the Furai, though many believe it would be a very worthy vehicle for Mazda to return to the Le Mans 24-hour race which it won with a rotary-engined car in 1991.
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  Collection of Ferrari’s greatest road cars to go under the hammer 17 Jul 2017 (News)
  Thirteen of Ferrari's greatest road cars are going under the hammer at the famous Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The single-owner collection, which spans more than 50 years of Maranello history, will be auctioned at RM’s Montery sale on 18-19 August.
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  Rare Rolls-Royce for sale 26 Aug 2015 (News)
  Built in two wheelbase lengths, this new low-slung frame enabled coachbuilders to design a sleeker, more modern body for the car. Rolls-Royce motor cars offered in Bonhams sale include: The ex-Robert Barrymore, 1914 Rolls-Royce 40/50 Silver Ghost Skiff – estimate 7,200,000-9,200,000 DKK (£675,000-875,000) The ex-Richard Solove,1910 Rolls-Royce 40/50 Silver Ghost 'Balloon Car' – estimate 4,600,000-6,200,000 DKK (£425,000-575,000) The ex-Peta Fisher - Blue Train challenging,1933 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental Owen Sedanca Coupe – estimate 5,600,000-7,200,000 DKK (£510,000-660,000) 1912 Rolls-Royce 40/50 Silver Ghost Cabriolet – estimate 4,200,000-5,600,000 DKK (£390,000-520,000) The ex-Maharaja of Patiala and Richard J.
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  Jet tops record-breaking Aston sale at Bonhams 21 May 2013 (News)
  But it was the multiple-award-winning Jet was the star, attracting intense interest from bidders in the room and on the telephones, with bidding escalating at increments of £100,000 at a time. The car was the last off the production line and is a complete ‘one-off’ with coachwork by Giorgetto Giugiaro, then working for the Italian design house Bertone. The car was offered from a deceased estate, and came to market for the first time in over 25 years.
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  Hot Rods at Beaulieu 17th – 19th June 2011 8 Mar 2011 (News)
  The biggest and best Hot Rod and Custom Car Show in the south, South Coast Internationals will be held in the grounds of the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, from the 17 th – 19 th June. Now in its third year at this venue the show has built up a huge following which last year attracted over 600 custom cars and bikes and had an attendance on the Sunday of just under 6,000 people.
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  1962 E-Type Makes £51,975 at Barons Auction 22 Jun 2010 (News)
    The E-Type roadster was secured after a bidding battle in the hall,   and the Dax was sold to a commission bid, which had been submitted on   the Monday after the buyer had viewed the car.   “This was quite a busy sale, with cars spanning nine decades on offer,   and there was some enthusiastic bidding for cars of all ages,” said   Barons’ MD, Laurence Sayers-Gillan.
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  Learn to Drive Like Fabrizio Giovanardo 2 Apr 2009 (News)
  LEARN T0 DRIVE LIKE BTCC STAR GIOVANARDI FROM JUST £120 * 2009 VXR Track Days make welcome return, priced from just £120 * All packages include drive with BTCC star & track tuition in variety of VXR products * Drift like a pro in a VXR8 with all-new Ultimate VXR Track Day package Brands Hatch – Tune in to ITV 4 on Sunday 5th April and the chances are you’ll see reigning BTCC drivers’ champion, Fabrizio Giovanardo, perform a masterclass in car control as he laps his VX Race car at the Brands Hatch season opener. He’s Italian, he’s cool and he has one of the best-sorted cars on the grid, but most importantly he has the ability to extract the very best from his Vauxhall on a race circuit.
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  24 & 36 Month Honda CRV Lease deals from £239.99 14 Jan 2006 (News)
  More information and more new car leasing deals like these at www.dsgauto.com
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  Plenty of Cheap Cars at Auction Today 24 Sep 2003 (News)
  A 38k mile 2000W new-shape Volvo V70 T5 auto with a filthy interior sold over book at £14,500. And a 71k mile 96N Mercedes E220 Sportline convertible showed where these beautiful cars are going by reaching £2,000 over book at £11,950. Car of the day wasn’t the 45k mile 2001V Jeep Cherokee 2.5 manual I quite fancied. It was a 16k mile 2001/51 Subaru Legacy 2.0GL saloon, sold for an incredible £4,300.
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  FIA European Drag Racing Championships 13 Aug 2008 (News)
  With televised action including the sport’s Formula 1 class of Top Fuel Dragster and over 20 supporting classes of cars and bikes, plus Jet Car demos, Live Action Arena, Monster Trucks, trade village, side-shows and family entertainment there really is something for everyone. The feature event is the climax to the FIA Top Fuel Drag Racing Championship with Andy ‘Bad Boy’ Carter in with a shout.
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  Today's Motor Show News 26 Jul 2008 (News)
  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. The car maker also suggests that modern cars are generally more environmentally friendly and that thanks to advances in fuel efficiency, emit less CO2.
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  Suzuki Jimny will remain on sale 'in very limited numbers' 24 Jan 2020 (News)
  Suzuki has responded to speculation that its Jimny off-roader could be axed in order to reduce average CO2 emissions across its range. All car manufacturers are set to be hit with heavy fines if their cars emit more than 95g/km CO2 on average in Europe from 2021. This has led to accelerated roll out of electrified models, while more polluting cars are being dropped.
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  Skoda Estelle 105S in Friday's 'Flipping Bangers' 29 May 2019 (News)
  Yet, after having won one for buttons from an eccentric collector in an eBay auction, this is the dilemma that faces Will Trickett and Gus Gregory in Friday's 'Flipping Bangers'. 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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  A Grand Monday: Toyota Starlet 4 Mar 2019 (News)
  There are some cars that you just don’t notice until they practically don’t exist any longer, and the Toyota Starlet ’80-Series’ is one such car. Launched at the 1990 Geneva Motor Show, not that a huge amount of people noticed, it was sold as a three- or five-door hatchback and remained on sale until 1996, when it was replaced by the ’90-Series’.
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  A Grand Monday: Mercedes-Benz C240 Sport 5 Nov 2018 (News)
  The 'W202' generation of C-Class may have been a far more agile and arguably more handsome car, but it lacked the 'W201' 190's cockroach-like resilience to destruction. Indeed, a few years of salty winter roads were enough to see W202 C-Classes erupting into rust-riddled acne, which was enough to trigger a service action from Mercedes to replace rusted panels under warranty.
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  £17.5m Aston Martin sets new world auction record 21 Aug 2017 (News)
  A 1956 Aston Martin DBR1/1 sold at auction in Monterey to become the most expensive British car ever sold at auction. Chassis no. 1 sold for $22,550,000 (£17.5m) when it went under the hammer at RM Sotheby’s on Friday, 18 August. Two bidders competed for the Martin, in a contest that lasted nearly seven minutes, before a private collector bidding by telephone was successful.