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Following a 12 month development project BCA has launched a brand new website with a raft of new features for customers. The new site has a fresh design and enhanced navigation allowing customers to interact with BCA in a more intuitive fashion.  The site now includes Auction View, Commercial Auction View and www.british-car-auctions.co.uk on one [...]

October 30th, 2009

Publishers of popular weekly car magazine Auto Express have launched a new title. The ‘New Car Test Drive Directory’ is a brave move when readership of automotive magazines, save Top Gear Magazine, has taken a battering in the past 12 months due in part to the recession but also as readers switch to online test [...]

October 30th, 2009

Vauxhall is offering a special deal on servicing and repair, if you opt to buy Vauxhall Motor Insurance, with your new model policy will receive a voucher entitling them to either £50 off servicing or repairs (when spending £100 or more), or £50 off genuine Vauxhall accessories (excluding fitting). Thanks to this exclusive offer, motorists [...]

October 30th, 2009

Volkswagen has today confirmed pricing and specification for the most powerful and fastest accelerating derivatives of the Scirocco and Golf ever produced. Developed by Volkswagen’s special projects wing, Volkswagen Individual, prices for Scirocco R start at £26,945 on-the-road and £28,930 for the Golf R. Fitted with a 2.0-litre TSI four-cylinder engine and a six speed [...]

October 30th, 2009

It’s Halloween this weekend and one Peterborugh dealership has got well into the spirit through its own spook-themed bash. To celebrate the arrival of Isuzu’s rugged range of vehicles in their purpose-built showroom, the team at Conders Garage Ltd is throwing an exclusive Halloween party. Set to take place this Saturday, the party will feature an array [...]

October 30th, 2009

Suzuki is to beat the taxman by offering hire purchase customers the option to defer the first payment for three months and dodge the VAT return to 17.5 per cent. As the year ends, car buyers will see the current 15 per cent VAT rate return to form and increase prices across the forecourt. With [...]

October 29th, 2009

Motorists cutting back on breakdown cover and relying on DIY car maintenance run the risk of a hefty £195 bill in the event of a breakdown, according to latest estimates from RAC. At a time when RAC Patrols are achieving record numbers of permanent roadside repairs – 7,500 more per month than 2008 – and [...]

October 29th, 2009

Now you can have voice control over the interior functions of your car in the same way you can have hands-free control over your mobile phone. Ford has introduced a new voice activated system which allows drivers to change the radio station, adjust the climate control or even control the satellite navigation system without taking [...]

October 29th, 2009

Ford produces some of the most reliable cars in the world, dispelling the myth that only Japan makes dependable vehicles, US independent consumer magazine, Consumer Reports says. In its latest annual report, the US version of Which? revealed that about 90 per cent (46 of 51) of Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln products were found to [...]

October 29th, 2009

Swedish carmaker, Volvo is launching a new online challenge in conjunction with the cinema release of Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon movie to give Twilight fans the chance to win a shiny new Volvo XC60 exactly like the one Edward drives in the new film.  Starting 2 November 2009, people can log onto [...]

October 28th, 2009