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  Comment: So you think that navigation systems are lost? 30 Jul 2015 (News)
  And as it turns out, that’s six-tenths of the current fifth biggest consumer electrical market in the UK – and one that's doing an Alan Partridge. It's bouncing back. Here’s why: “there are round about 32, 33 million cars on the road [in the UK], and at the moment not all cars come with built-in navigation - it still tends to be the more premium cars - so actually there are tens of millions of cars out there that don’t have built-in navigation,” says Tom.
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  Comment: So you think that navigation systems are lost? 25 Jun 2015 (News)
  And as it turns out, that’s six-tenths of the current fifth biggest consumer electrical market in the UK – and one that's doing an Alan Partridge. It's bouncing back. Here’s why: “there are round about 32, 33 million cars on the road [in the UK], and at the moment not all cars come with built-in navigation - it still tends to be the more premium cars - so actually there are tens of millions of cars out there that don’t have built-in navigation,” says Tom.
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  World's Longest Drift at Mercedes benz World 20 Jun 2011 (News)
  At this impressive visitor attraction, visitors will find a 3D experience, a Mercedes-Benz cinema, interactive displays, and enthralling motorsport exhibits.  For those with a passion for cars there is the opportunity to see, touch and feel the latest Mercedes-Benz models which are joined by a host of beloved classics and Formula 1™ cars. Fascinating stories also give visitors the chance to appreciate the inspirational events that have linked Mercedes-Benz with Brooklands since it was built in 1907.
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  More Cheap Cars at Auction Today 29 Oct 2007 (News)
  Yet another Maxima QX V6 SE+, this one a 56k mile 02 was bang on book at £3,700. And a couple of bidders got into a right old fight over a very ordinary 117k miles unwarranted 97R Passat TDI 90 S. One of them ended up paying a whopping £1,625 for it. Here’s the list. As usual, ‘s’ means sold.
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  eBay Auction Report 11 Apr 2005 (News)
  £645 was enough for a 95M Rover 214SEi with half-leather seat facings, 7 months MOT, a fairly recent new head gasket and cambelt and 69,000 miles. A couple of old big prestige cars passed through too. A 91J Audi 100 2.6 V6 with 3 months MOT but needing a bit of work after its 150,000 miles made £555.37 whereas a classless cream 85B Mercedes 230TE auto estate with a new ticket and a reconditioned engine after 80,000 of its 113,000 miles made £530.
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  BCA Launches a New Classic Car Website 16 Feb 2008 (News)
  The event features a wide selection of vehicles, including some very rare Americana, show-condition commercials and cars ranging from the 1930s to the 1990s on offer.” Arguably the most desirable car in the sale is the 1957 Thunderbird Convertible, complete with porthole hard-top. Finished in black with black trim the car remained with it’s original lady owner until 2000 and was later sold from her estate in 2003 to undergo a complete nut and bolt restoration before being purchased by the current owner and subsequently` imported to the UK in 2006.
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  Ari Vatanen to be crowned Rally Legend 24 Oct 2014 (News)
  ‘It wasn’t without its dramas as we rolled the car in Wales,’ he said. ‘I thought it was finished; we seemed to have landed in some sort of swamp. Terrible. But then some people came and suddenly we could get the car over again. We could go again.
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  Packed starting grids at Croft Circuit this weekend 9 Sep 2011 (News)
    Countdown begins to Croft’s R.A.C Rally stage Meanwhile Croft Circuit, the North East’s premier motor racing venue, is counting down to its stage of this year’s high-profile Roger Albert Clark historic car rally featuring a mouth-watering entry of many of the machines that wowed the nation on the RAC rallies of old during the Sixties through to the early Eighties.   Ford Escort MK1s and 2s, Vauxhall Chevettes, Porsche 911s, Opel Asconas, Saab 96s, Mini Coopers and even the odd Lancia Stratos, Renault 5 Turbo and Talbot Sunbeam are among the expected entries for the four-day event – regarded as one of the finest of its kind in the world and which stops off at Croft on the afternoon of Saturday 3 December.
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  No Recession at Today’s Auction 18 Jan 2008 (News)
  But an 8k mile 07 Prius T3 made a very respectable £13,850. A 49k mile 2001/51 SIX YEAR OLD Yaris 1.0GLS 5-dr made an enormous £3,075. You could say that Yaris always have been strong money, yet a 59k mile 2000X old-shape Mondeo 2.0 Zetec sold for a very solid £1,425. A 34k miles 03 Rover Streetwise sold for £2,350.
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  Opinion: Keep your friends close and your mechanics closer 16 Aug 2016 (News)
  I passed my driving test in 1994, which was an interesting time for the car industry. It was, very much, the dawn of the electronic era, as cars moved away from being simple and easy to maintain towards being ever more electronically controlled and ECU-reliant. They were interesting times, and possibly the last days in which young people were positively encouraged to learn the true art of car maintenance.
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  Mondeo II for £2,400 at Auction Today 29 Jul 2005 (News)
  http://www.auctionview.co.uk/source/av/login.asp" target="_blank">www.auctionview.co.uk If you are a BCA account holder this service also now gives composite price information (average auction price, CAP and Glass’s) and now allows you to buy a selection of cars directly on-line. For sales at BCA Edinburgh, click here for full details: www.british-car-auctions.co.uk/main.asp?
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  GM Board Decides to Retain Opel/Vauxhall 5 Nov 2009 (News)
    General Motors acquired operations from General Motors Corporation on July 10, 2009, and references to prior periods in this and other press materials refer to operations of the old General Motors Corporation.  More information on the new General Motors can be found at www.gm.com .
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  Baron's British Heritage Auction 8th September at Sandown Park 31 Aug 2009 (News)
  ” Julian’s career started in Sotheby’s Classic Car Department, followed by a period in the Automobilia Department at Brooks. He returned to Sotheby’s to head up the Classic Car Department in the mid 1990s, then spent five years developing the Vintage & Classic Car Auctions Department at Cheffins.
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  Motor Show Live Gears Up For Motorsport Days 3 Jun 2004 (News)
  Not only that, but to date we’ve had around 200 firm enquiries, which is a great response given that we only sell around 50 cars a year.’ Marlin has been surprised by interest from young people in its Sportster car. ‘It might look old-fashioned but I think they are fed-up with round shapes and want something different,’ says Marlin’s owner Terry Matthews ‘It also helps that you can insure a Sportster for as little as £200,’ she adds.
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  Prestige Cars Plummet, But Still Sell at Auction 13 Oct 2008 (News)
  A 9k mile 07 Audi A5 3.0TDI quattro Sport with surface scratches in the lacquer made a very strong £30,000. And a 41k mile 3 year old A6 Avant with the 3.0 V6 and quattro drivetrain, but ‘comfort’ 16” wheels was slightly over book at £16,200. And a 3 year old 41k mile Fiesta 1.6TDCI Zetec S (quite a nippy little car and only £35 tax) sold for a very strong £6,150.
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  Tax Effect Starts to Settle At Auction Today 7 May 2008 (News)
  Sure enough a 37k mile 2005/55 107 Urban made a strong £3,600. Not bad for a two and a half year old car originally sold for about £6,000 at a discount. There’s not much value in £35 tax if a car is all but knackered. Yet an 82k mile 04 Fiesta 1.4TDCI still made £3,000.
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  MINI One Mad Money At Auction Today 7 Mar 2008 (News)
  If someone wanted one and didn’t want to wait, then there could have been a drink in buying it for them. The rest of the Motability sale told its own story. Strong demand for old model Zafira diesels meant strong money paid. Weak demand for Chevrolet Tacumas meant weak money. Too many Focus out there and a facelift in the showrooms saw an 8 week old Focus II 1.8 Zetec Climate with delivery miles sell for £8,500.
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  Online Bidding Secures a Worldwide Audience for UK Auctions 9 Jun 2010 (News)
  Total value of that sale was a colossal £7,000,000. The Bugatti represented a UK record value for a modern production car at auction and the highest value ever achieved by BCA on one vehicle. It also set the used value level of a 4 year old Bugatti Veyron. Many cars at the auction either confirmed or set new guide prices, though some, such as the Audis, may have been by Audi dealers reinforcing the residuals of late Audi models.
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  BTCC Croft Just One Week Away 11 Jun 2011 (News)
  Plato, always popular with the Croft crowds thanks to his Newcastle roots, is fifth in the table and sixth Andrew Jordan in his Pirtek Racing Vectra – the 22-year-old has won in many different categories at Croft and 12 months ago achieved his first ever victory in the BTCC there. The Staffordshire racer commented: “I don’t know whether it’s the Northern air or the Northern girls – or both!
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  This Weekend's Discounts and Premiums 22 Jun 2002 (News)
  Welcome to the real World. Though the UK new car market isn’t entirely free, free-market supply and demand still applies. Where supply exceeds demand, prices can and should be cheap. But where demand exceeds supply you can easily find yourself paying £5,000 over list to get the car you want right now.