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Guide to Buying a Car at Auction
Buying a car at auction is a much feared but essential man skill, like reversing a trailer or owning a chainsaw. All have the potential to go horribly wrong but all will make you look effortlessly cool – if you do them right.
We’ve bought a couple of dozen cars at auction and have never (fingers crossed) had it go wrong. There are pitfalls, of course, but they are fewer than you might imagine. (We also own a chainsaw, a proper fire-breathing petrol jobbie, but reversing a trailer is a skill that still escapes us…) (more…)
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8 New Car Options That You Really Don’t Need
Buying a new car is stressful. After you have negotiated the pricing minefield you then have to confront the most dreaded creature in the motoring world: the car salesman.
Not content with taking thousands of your hard-earned pounds, he’ll then try to scare you into buying half-a-dozen optional extras. You’re in a buying mood and want to treat your new car well, so get suckered into buying a stack of stuff that you just don’t need. A couple of months later you’ll be poorer and feeling like a chump, while your salesman is booking his fourth holiday of the year and arranging his next session on the sun bed.
Here is the BreakdownCover.org Guide to the 8 New Car Options That You Really Don’t Need. (more…)
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The 10 Commandments Of Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson, the enormously tall, bouffant-haired presenter of Top Gear is a simple man.
Loved by millions, he is guided only by Ten Commandments. No, not the Old Testament Commandments; something far more relevant that he probably wrote on the back of a fag packet, and keeps in the back pocket of his stone-washed jeans. (more…)
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20 Of The Craziest Top Gear Stunts
With series 16 of Top Gear not scheduled to air until early next year, we thought we’d try and counteract our withdrawal by spending some time looking over previous episodes and picking out our favourite stunts and shenanigans.
With so much tomfoolery packed into every episode it was a bit of a challenge picking out our top 20, but we’re happy with our selection.
We’ve even included some bonus footage of the ice-cream van hovercraft that never made it to air on Top Gear. (more…)
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70 Greatest Movie Cars Of All Time
Following on from our previous feature on the best movie car chases, we decided to take a closer look at just what exactly made them so great, and in most cases it was the car!
So after a long weekend of debate and lazing around watching DVDs we put together a nice compilation of what we believe are 70 of the greatest cars to every grace the big screen.
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30 Of The Greatest F1 Battles
With the Belgium Grand Prix not taking place until the end of the month, we decided to counter our F1 withdrawal by taking a trip down Formula’s 1 memory lane and picking out 30 of the greatest racing battles.
We tried our best to include races spanning the colorful history of Formula 1, and were actually quite surprised to find footage of races as far back as 1935! (more…)
