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Farah AlKhalisi 30 August 2007, 6:18 PM
When you're trying to keep an ancient car going on a tight budget, you get to visit dealers so far from polished main-franchise service bays they might as well be in another industry altogether.
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Where did all the petrol stations go?
Craig Thomas 5 July 2007, 3:31 PM
After setting off for work the other morning, I realised that I needed to put some petrol in the car.
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Farah AlKhalisi 4 June 2007, 10:59 AM
At a wedding the other week, I met a woman with an interesting business idea: she was planning to buy a small independent workshop and run a female- and gay-friendly garage.
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Quick. Name a politician who actually likes cars
Colin Overland 21 May 2007, 1:29 PM
Politicians really don't get cars, do they? It's not just cars they don't get. They don't get anything apart from politics, and a lot of them don't seem too hot at that either.
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Light up, light up - while you still have a choice
Craig Thomas 14 May 2007, 5:40 PM
Yesterday's news about a proposed law banning smoking at the wheel will have smokers incandescent with rage. 'How dare they,' they'll splutter, 'curtail our freedom to kill ourselves in our own cars?'
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Craig Thomas 15 March 2007, 9:57 AM
Geneva is a bit of a funny place to have a car show. Switzerland doesn't actually produce any cars (although the car parts industry is pretty big); it's not exactly driving nirvana (tailgating is a big problem); and Geneva's traffic jams make London look like a drive in the country.
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Oh no, not another Jaguar prototype...
Colin Overland 13 March 2007, 4:55 PM
If a petrolhead drew a map of Britain, London would barely figure and the north-east would be a fuzzy blur. In contrast, tiny villages and modest towns like Gaydon, Caterham, Hethel and Newport Pagnell would loom large.
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The real cost of motoring: nobody to blame but ourselves
Nick Gibbs 5 March 2007, 4:09 PM
In all this talk of road charging, one justificatory phrase from its supporters has been consistently annoying me: 'The cost of motoring has actually come down in real terms.' Friends of the Earth, Guardian readers, - hell, even Top Gear - have all brought it up.
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Supermarkets and their BSE petrol
Craig Thomas 2 March 2007, 4:25 PM
So that's another reason to hate the supermarkets, then. Not content with screwing the nation's farmers in order to peddle cheap food, now their petrol is wrecking our cars.
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MOTs every two years? Yes please
Farah AlKhalisi 1 March 2007, 4:36 PM
I heard a representative from a motor trade organisation on the radio recently, sounding off about proposals to scrap the current annual MOT checks in favour of tests every two years.
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Colin Overland 21 February 2007, 3:34 PM
I wish to make it entirely clear that I have not made an offer to buy Aston Martin. I am also reasonably confident that I have not made a loss of $7.4 billion. I have not just sacked my chairman and sent all his favoured projects back to the drawing board. Just to clarify, I have not been jailed for any offences involving call girls.
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Revealed at last: why designers wear black
Farah AlKhalisi 20 February 2007, 5:57 PM
Every other car on the road may appear to be silver, but that doesnt mean the car companies aren't trying to offer a variety of brighter colours. They employ huge departments to come up with paint that's just right for the car, and just right for you... and then you still go and choose silver.
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Craig Thomas 15 February 2007, 4:19 PM
Road pricing is a bit of a sticky subject at the moment. Especially if you're schoolboy-masquerading-as-government-minister Douglas Alexander. But might tolls actually be one way of making driving a better experience?
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South London's car parts time warp
Nick Gibbs 14 February 2007, 5:18 PM
I don't know what running a car was like in the 60s, but I think I've found a time portal in my local car parts shop.
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Richard Yarrow 5 February 2007, 12:17 PM
Mini's innovative marketing types have come up with a series of ads which are programmed to identify the customer who is approaching.The ad is triggered by a keyfob that's sent to customers, and already 1,000 drivers in several US cities are taking part. Now is it just me that thinks this is a bad idea?
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Breaking news: make good cars and people will buy them
Farah AlKhalisi 2 February 2007, 10:20 AM
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