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  Honest John's Motoring Agony Column 11-4-2015 11 Apr 2015 (News)
  to: letters@honestjohn.co.uk   Please try to keep them as short as possible.   A Legend in her own lifetime I am a 78-year old woman currently driving a 1992 Honda Legend that has done 107,000 miles. The car just passed its latest MoT, but my garage warns that since
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  Lewis Hamilton Launches RoadSense at Mercedes Benz World 6 Dec 2009 (News)
  .   After that, of course The Mercedes Benz Driving Academy teaches its own advanced form of 'Pass Plus', which has already found favour with insurers like Aviva, prepared to reduce premiums for young drrivers who represent less of a risk.   Additional Mercedes-Benz Driving Academy
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  Watch Hugarian GP Live at Mazda Stand 31 Jul 2008 (News)
  and between one and 1.4 metres tall. The Peugeot 207 Kid's Driving School is modelled on a similar attraction at the popular Alton Towers and can take up to 72 junior drivers an hour. After passing the simple height check test, each child is given a short briefing session before getting
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  Top Car Auction Monday 8th May 7 May 2006 (News)
  miles Many more plus 30 Prestige entries from Black Horse at 1.00pm Tuesday 9th May 11.00am start ***Special 300 Car Motability Sale*** Wednesday 10th May 10.00am start Fleet & Finance, Arval, Alphabet GB, Leaseplan, Lex Vehicle Leasing
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  MINIs from £4,900 at Auction Today 11 Jul 2007 (News)
  it will probably sell next week. A couple of potential cabs were sensible money, a tidy 60k mile 2000W Mazda 636 2.0Gsi (with a shiny steering wheel) sold for £1,650 and a clean 50k mile 2000W Nissan Primera II 1.8S sold for £1,800. There were even two three-plus-threes today
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  Cheapest Qashqai I’ve Seen at Auction Today 29 Oct 2010 (News)
  Zetec sold for £3,200, though it was in peachy condition.   But saved by their mileage were a 134k mile 07 Mazda 6 2.0D 143 TS sold for £2,975, a 141k mile 06 VW Golf Plus 2.0TDI 140 sold for £3,950, a 91k
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  Appeal For an Original 1959 Mini 2 Apr 2009 (News)
  Championship, plus the fantastic Westfields, TVRs, production saloons and Radicals. James Bailey, Dunlop’s communications manager said: “We’re planning to celebrate mini in a big way at Rockingham. We’re as delighted to be taking part in mini’s golden anniversary
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  Buyers Still Paying Over Book for Convertibles 14 Jun 2008 (News)
  Lex and BCA have combined for another highly successful convertible sale, this time staged in the Midlands at BCA’s Walsall centre on 2 June. With over 100 registered buyers in the auction hall, plus a further 47 bidding over the internet via BCA’s Live Online service
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  Gold Dust Expensive at Auction Today 24 Feb 2006 (News)
  a pal who buys for a Toyota dealer. Book for an 05/54 reg with 13k miles works out at £12,250, plus £775 for the autobox, so that’s £13,025. The 7,500 miler in the photo sold for £13,700. Here are the rest of today’s prices. Quite a long list
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  Today’s Car Auction Prices As Low As They’ll Go 16 Nov 2012 (News)
  BMW 520D 177 Business lthr, nav, aut, 2009/59, 73k miles £11,150p Chrysler Grand Voyager 2.0CRD Ltd aut, 12 reg, 4k miles £25,200s Ford Fiesta 1.6TDCI Titanium 3-dr, 2009/59, 71k miles £5,500s Ford Fusion 1.6 Plus, 07 reg, 21k miles £3,000s Ford Mondeo
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  More Cheap Sportscars at Auction Today 3 Nov 2007 (News)
  Once again soft-top prices sunk, making them an excellent buy to smoke until Spring, then get your money back plus a bit. You’d have to buy some clothes when you got there if you’d bought the 41k mile 02 reg MR2 in the photo because there’s nowhere to put them
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  Honest John's Motoring Agony Column 4 Apr 2015 (News)
  party's insurer that if it does not meet my claim in full I will carry out the court action and also demand a 'reasonable' amount for my expenses. I claimed the repair amount plus court costs through the courts' MCOL online service and, after some stalling, including an offer to pay 50% of the amount
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  100 years of small Fords 17 Jun 2011 (News)
  from the steering wheel, and the risks associated with this problem are compounded by the absence of seatbelts. On the plus side, the rod operated brakes work well, and luckily the brake pedal is in the middle, as you’d expect it to be. It’s not on the original small cheap car, the model T
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  Next Exciting Round of BTCC at Croft 18th/19th June 6 Jun 2011 (News)
  attempted to pass him. To the disbelief of the huge trackside crowd and live ITV4 audience their Honda Racing Team Civics dramatically made contact and together slithered off into the gravel trap. This gifted Oxford’s Plato victory ahead of Robert Collard’s WSR BMW and Newport Pagnell driver James Nash’s
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  No Sign of Recession at Auction Today 24 Aug 2009 (News)
  VW Golf Plus 1.9TDI PD, 2005/55, 80k miles £5,600s VW Passat 1.9TDI 105, 2006/56, 60k miles £6,200s VW Passat 2.0TDI 140, 2006/55, 124k miles £5,300s   As always the best way to look
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  Used Car Prices Still High at Auction Today 21 Aug 2009 (News)
  £3,450s Vauxhall Astra 1.6 Club 5-dr, 2006/55, 33k miles £2,400s Vauxhall Astra 1.7CTDI 100CL estate, 2007/56, 81k miles £3,950s Vauxhall Astra 1.4 Breeze Plus 3-dr, 2008/58, 5k miles £9,250s VW
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  This Week’s Top Car Auctions 11 Jun 2006 (News)
  745Li, Titanium Silver, 50k miles 02 reg BMW 735 Sport, full spec, Sorento Blue, 32k miles 2000X Mercedes CL600 coupe, Silver, 46k miles Plus: BMW ex-courtesy cars, Porsche Retail p/x, Black Horse, Fleet & Finance, Inchcape No Reserve p/x, Reg Vardy p/x, Lex Vehicle Leasing
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  Bargain Time Has Started at Auction 28 Oct 2009 (News)
  -motion 5-dr, 007/57, 10k miles £17,600p VW Golf Plus 1.9TDI, 2006/55, 96k miles £4,625s VW Golf Plus 1.9TDI, 2006/56, 35k miles £6,600p VW Touran 1.9TDI PD, 2005/55, 84k miles £5,400s VW Passat 2.0TDI 140, 06 reg, 21k miles
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  Mega Mile Merc Makes Export Money at Auction 14 Jul 2006 (News)
  C3 1.4HDI Exclusive, 03 reg, 28k n/w £4,550s Citroen Picasso 2.0HDI Exec, 02 reg, 93k miles £3,600s Daewoo Matiz 1.0SE Plus. 03 reg, 19k miles £2,300s Ford Street Ka 1.6, 05 reg, 11k miles n/w £7,300s Ford Fusion 2 1.4, 04 reg, 6k miles £5,100s
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  Inconsistent Bidding At Auction Today 8 Feb 2008 (News)
  at this end of the market. Not at the top, though. A 10k mile 07 Audi Allroad 3.0TDI auto with satnav made a resounding £32,800s. And there was a fair old fight for a 2004/54 BMW X5 3.0D Sport in full WAG spec of black with beige leather and satnav plus traffic light TV