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  Jaguar XJ41/42 5 Jul 2013 (News)
  Sir Michael Edwardes gave the car his approval, and it was signed off for production in July 1982. Development moved swiftly on – by January the following year, styling models were being entered into customer clinics, and a lauch date of March 1986 was set.
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  SKYACTIV. The future of cars according to Mazda – Driven. 5 Jun 2011 (News)
  You only have to drive a 20-year-old car to realise how much better cars are today.   A Sierra felt pretty good in 1991. But compared to today’s Mondeo it feels almost prehistoric.   So what will tomorrow’s cars feel like?
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  Auction Prices Now Close to Rock Bottom 14 Nov 2008 (News)
  Bids kicked off at just £12k, but then a bit of a battle ensued, and someone with an intimate knowledge of common rail diesel injection systems (or not) eventually bought it for £16k. The opposite extreme was a 2005/55 and therefore three-year-old Toyota Aygo 1.0 5-door with 26k miles. The car everyone now wants because it will be just £20 tax next year. That sold for a hefty £4,200, so had only lost about £1,000 a year. There will be a lot more de-fleeted 2005/55 reg cars over the next few weeks.
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  Porsche 997 Sells on eBay for £63,700 26 Aug 2005 (News)
  In good condition and in steel grey it made £6,999. High mileage can really hammer a car’s value. The Renault Laguna may not have the best residuals of its class, but add 96k to the mileage in three years and you can pick up a silver 02/02 1.9 DCi Dynamique 5dr in good condition with a FSH for £4,450.
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  04 MINI Cooper £7,800 at Auction Today 9 Aug 2006 (News)
  But don’t start thinking MINIs are getting cheaper. This one has done 77,000 miles. There were some cars going for reasonable money today, though. Like a 2002/51 Mercedes C220 CDI for just £6,050. And a 2003/53 S320CDI (less than 3 years old) for £18,400. But the cheap 03 Leon Cupra was no bargain.
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  Fabulous Auction of Classic Cars, Guitars, Guns and Automobilia Tuesday 1st December 30 Nov 2009 (News)
  Oldest car in the sale is a 1908 Stanley Steamer. Newest, a 2004 Ferrari Enzo. Theres's also some wonderful automobilia. Fabulous guns. And 58 classic guitars. The sale starts with Automobilia at 13.00, followed by sporting guns at 16.00, then guitars at 5.30 and finally cars from 19.00.
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  Auction Report Double Bill – eBay 8th May 2005 11 May 2005 (News)
  However, you would have had to stump up an extra £50 to get the Vectra 1.8LS with the neon washers. This was a 96P car with 4m MOT and 124k. One to watch The pearl blue Porsche 911 C4S Tiptronic (996) on a 99T with 55,000 miles stalled at £27,500. The Pope’s old March 1999 grey VW Golf with 75,000 km made a startling 188,938.88 or £129,007.47.
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  Rover P8 & P9 2 Aug 2013 (News)
  It was a straightforward decision for the company to pursue this single model programme because management at Rover had become convinced that the Solihull design team could only handle the development of one major new car at a time. With the decision made that that the new car should be a larger car than the P6, work began on developing a replacement. King himself did not want a larger car, and the desire to make the new car larger came from above: ‘I had a lot to do with the machine that went into P8 before it ever happened, and I didn’t ever want it to be as big a car as P8.
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  Very Cheap Cars At Auction Today 21 May 2008 (News)
  Even an E90 BMW 318d ES with 61k miles only fetched £9,900. And top bid for a year old 10k mile E92 325iSE coupe was only £21,000, £2k short of trade book. But some traders are not yet fully aware of the retrospective CO2 taxing of everything from March 2001 that will see the tax on some cars more than double to £440.
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  Sebastien Loeb Gets FTD at Goodwood Festival of Speed 30 Jun 2014 (News)
  .  Watched by more than 3,000 people on a delayed 'live stream' (and thousands more live on Sky TV) he beat Michael Bartels Maserati MC12 with a time of 45.82, Kenny Brack's McLaren F1 GTR 'Long Tail' at 47.52 and rising star, 23 year old Jann Mardenborough from Darlington in a Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 with a time of 48.05. The record remains held by Nick Heidfeld with a time of 41.6 seconds set in a McLaren MP4/13 in 1999. Since then, current F1 cars have been excluded and Justin Law holds the record for the fastest non F1 car of 44.19 seconds in a Jaguar XJR8/9 in 2008.
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  Nissan 4x4s. New Range. Lower Prices. 22 Apr 2009 (News)
  Now it is the king of value, too. In place of the Platinum, Aventura, Outlaw, Sport and Trek models of the old line-up, there are now just two 4x4 Navaras, both as before powered by the 2.5-litre dCi diesel engine. The Acenta combines style and capability to make light of even the toughest working day.
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  Santa Fe Over Book at Auction Today 21 May 2010 (News)
  page=816">Lex Autolease As always the best way to look for a specific car coming up at a BCA auction or to pre-check a day’s sale is to visit  Auctionview   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.
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  Phenomenal Bargains at Auction Today 24 Oct 2008 (News)
  As Sterling crashes, oil goes up again and Britain officially falls into recession, prices of sports and luxury cars are taking a direct hit. A Y reg Z3 sold for £4,450, a 2005/55 350Z Coupe for £10,400 and, starting at just £17m400 a 2006/56 Porsche Cayman 2.7 sold for £19,500.
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  Crews cross the finish line in this year's Peking to Paris rally 25 Jul 2016 (News)
  Mark said, ‘It is an amazing feeling to have won such an iconic event, thank you to the Endurance Rally Association for another fantastic adventure, meeting up with old friends and making new friends, seeing places in the world that you would never see otherwise. The car is tired and so are Dave and I. We’re looking forward to a well-earned rest.’ By the time they reached the finish line, second place went to Ludovic Bois from France and Julia Colman from the UK in the 1969 Volvo Amazon, with Murray and Adam Jackson from Australia taking third place in their 1974 Mercedes 450 SLC.
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  Today’s Car Auction Prices As Low As They’ll Go 16 Nov 2012 (News)
  It’s mid November and, as has happened every year for the past 20 years, car auction prices have bottomed out. They have reached a point where the fleets would rather hang on to the cars until January when prices traditionally rise rather than sell them for any less.
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  Cheapest Qashqai I’ve Seen at Auction Today 29 Oct 2010 (News)
    This is traditionally the time of year when used cars hit rock bottom, but this year there’s a shortage the sensible mileage cars in strongest demand. So they are staying high and it’s only the seriously mileagy stuff that’s going for bargain basement money.
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  Motorprovider Full List 25 May 2008 (News)
  www.motorprovider.co.uk full unedited list of offers at 25-5-2008. AUDI A4 1.9 TDi 130 SE Tip, 5 Doors, Automatic, Estate, Diesel, 2003 03...
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  05 Jazz Just £5,900 At Auction Today 13 Oct 2006 (News)
  A sort of Sewage Outflow Green. And only the base model 1.2 with 22,000 miles. But the cheapest 18 month old Jazz I’ve ever seen. A 4k mile 05 reg Citroen Pluriel 1.4 with optional alloys was even cheaper at £5,750. A 70k mile 04 reg Golf TDI 105 SE at £8,050 was the cheapest Mk V diesel I’ve yet seen.
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  Prices Strong At Auction Today 5 Mar 2008 (News)
  Part-exchanges have not come through in any numbers yet and the market is starved of the right used cars. So for every car with a queue of buyers there was a bidding battle. Part-exchanges will be slower than usual coming through this year anyway because new cars aren’t getting to the dealers in time.
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  Some Sensible Buys at Auction Today 4 Jul 2007 (News)
  Monday 23rd July 10.00am start Fleet Direct, Lex, Bank of Scotland, Inchcape Prestige p/x, Porsche Retail p/x, Mercedes Benz Retail p/x, TOP CAR , Franchised Dealer p/x, Inchcape no reserve p/x, Evans Halshaw p/x, Hartwells p/x, Pendragon p/x. Tuesday 24th July 10.30am start Peugeot Approved Sale Wednesday 25th July 10.00am start Volvo Car UK Ltd., Prime Fleet, Leaseplan, Black Horse, Lex, Bank of Scotland, General Section, Jardine p/x, Sytner p/x, Inchcape p/x, Snows Group p/x, Trident Honda p/x.