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Recognise this beauty of engineering? If you’re American it’s a certainty. However, here in Europe it’s not always going to be a case of “oh yeah, that’s the new Mustang.” Why? You tell me, Ford have always seemed somewhat reluctant to drop this beast on us properly.
Tell me Ford, is it the fact that motoring [...]

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Thinking of buying a used car? You’re not the only one – while car sales are down as a whole as the economy takes a nose dive, the figures are suggesting that more people are getting behind the wheel of second hand cars or nearly-new car in efforts to get more for car for their [...]

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The Seat Ibiza is a sort of cross between the VW Polo and the VW Golf. As Seat are owned by Volkswagen many of the recent Seat Ibizas have been built on the same platform as the Polo and therefore they share many of the same characteristics. However, more recent Ibiza’s have adopted some of [...]

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Audi Up The Style

In the last couple of years Audi have really come up trumps when it comes to producing hot, stylish and sought after cars. Two of the best in their collection is the stunning Audi R8 and the trendy Audi TT.
The TT is definitely the most affordable of the pair as the [...]

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The new Kia Cee’d was designed with one thing in mind: pleasing European motorists. Yet things that are designed by committee usually emerge into production as something that hints at many applications but achieves none – putting a faint smile on most faces but really pleasing none. The saying “you can’t please all the people all [...]

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For such a small car there’s a lot of attention and fuss being given to the 500 Abarth So why all the fuss for what essentially looks like a Fiat 500 with a red stripe and some flash alloy wheels? Well, for one thing it’s more than that – it’s supercar like performance wrapped in [...]

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With more and more mental stimuli and entertainment around, it’s getting harder and harder for advertisers to find something that grabs the attention and makes an impact. Car adverts are just the same, advertising agencies have to create something visually stunning, comedic or obscure to make a lasting impression and garner repeated viewings across the [...]

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It’s been a tricky time for the automotive industry as the recession has plunged it’s claws in deeper with every passing month, will 2009 see it recover? Not an industry to rest on its laurels, there’s some great cars launching to keep an eye out for in the coming year with something for all tastes [...]

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Diesels. There, what was your response? They say (in the hallowed boardrooms of advertising) that we all have an initial response to something be it a word or a picture. This is driven by personal experience, peer pressure, media content, advertising and so on. But can this change? Has the motor industry done enough to [...]

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“I got caught speeding in a Skoda, but got let off because the copper was laughing too much.”
How many Skoda jokes are there? There must be hundreds and I’ve certainly told more than my fair share. Thing is, are they still a joke? They’re no longer the comedy-fodder little boxes they were in the past. [...]

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