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Used Ford Focus - Perhaps The Best Value Car On The Market?
Used Ford Focus
EVERYBODY remembers their first car The graduation from foot to four wheels affords adolescents the world over with an entirely new liberty, a freedom to roam wherever their whim or the road may take them...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Jeep Cherokee - The Original 4x4
Jeep Cherokee
The English language is a terribly complex thing, an intricate system of symbols and signs and inferences and nuances...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Chrysler Sebring - Heavyweight Contender?
Chrysler Sebring
Here in the UK, we’re fairly comfortable with the notion of importing our automobiles...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Volkswagen Polo
Volkswagen’s Polo There’s something just that little bit special about it...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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New Ford Fiesta – One World One Vision
Ford launched the Fiesta way back in 1976 to an expectant nation Announcing it as “Ford’s New Baby” this was the year in which we were experiencing our driest summer on record and punk was sweeping the nation...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Suzuki Grand Vitara - The “Soft Roader” Gets Serious
The cheeky little Suzuki Vitara was once very popular and especially appealed to younger drivers I remember college kids who had a bit of money used to buy them and then “pimp” them up to the required standard which usually consisted of enormously oversized wheels and tyres accompanied by some kind of amusing spare wheel cover on the back...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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VW Tiguan -The Late Arrival That Stole the Show
Isn’t it annoying if you have been waiting patiently at a bar for ages to be served and someone breezes in and gets served straight away...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Used Ford Explorer – A Lot of Car For Your Money
With the current high cost of fuel, the gloomy economic future not to mention the whole global warming thing a used 4x4 might not be uppermost on your mind right now...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Vauxhall Zafira – Now Why Didn’t I Think of That?
Of course the most obvious answer to this question is “because you’re not a car designer dummy” Even if I was though I probably would have raised a cheer for the person who solved the age old automotive conundrum of how to transport a family and all their junk around in something smaller than a removal lorry and without the styling and handling characteristics that go with it...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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New Galaxy Discovered!
Before I get all you amateur astronomers reaching for your telescopes and directing them towards the heavens I must point out that I’m not referring to the interstellar kind of Galaxy but the exciting new Ford Galaxy...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Suzuki Makes a Splash
Remember Daryl Hannah before she started wearing an eye patch and chain smoking cigarettes Not to mention killing anyone who got in her way...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Ford Fiesta - Dagenham’s Finest Hour
In 2002 car production ceased at Ford’s Dagenham plant after some seventy years It was a sad day in February of that year when the last Fiesta rolled off the assembly line...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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VW Golf – A New Hope?
Once again England prepares to face the old foe Germany tonight in Berlin for a friendly game of football that promises to be anything but...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Ford S-Max – The MPV Strikes Back
The MPV or people carrier as we Brits prefer to call them has often been looked upon with derision by motoring writers...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Mitsubishi L200 – A Bit of an Animal?
The humble pick-up truck has evolved from its agricultural roots into an altogether different beast There was a time when ownership of a pick-up usually went hand in hand with displaying a confederate flag and wearing a lot of denim...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Jeep Commander – Take Charge of the Highways
If you’re after sheer road presence the Jeep Commander has it in abundance, in fact short of driving a Challenger battle tank through the streets of some quaint British market town dragging various items of street furniture in your wake, the Commander looms on the horizon to show all the SUV pretenders that back in the day Jeep started the whole off-road thing...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Used Ford – Focus Reigns Supreme
Like it or not family motoring comes to us all eventually Some people, mostly men including myself I must admit, cling on to the last vestiges of an immaculately clean car with a spotless interior smelling of some masculine fragranced air freshener and then suddenly without warning those days are gone...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Vauxhall Vans – Nice Delivery!
Let’s face it the thought of a small van doesn’t really set one’s pulse racing but nevertheless they are an essential part of everyday life...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Third Time Lucky for the Vauxhall Corsa
The Vauxhall Corsa has been around for what feels like a lifetime Some might say almost as long as Bruce Forsythe who is a British institution, rather like the good old Corsa...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Suzuki Cars Finally Get a Makeover
Suzuki has long been an automotive enigma For a company that has been rolling out beautifully crafted superbikes for many years their curious offerings on the car market have bemused many a reviewer not to mention the car buying public...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Ford Rapid Fit- Cheaper Than You Think
Let’s face it there are few things in life that cause more consternation than paying a visit to a garage, possibly with the exception of major heart surgery or a trip to the dentist, but along with these it’s right up there I’ll think you’ll agree...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Corsa – Vauxhall’s Smallest Success
Vauxhall’s little Corsa started life way back in 1983 Back then it was known as the Nova in the UK and was a replacement for the ageing Vauxhall Chevette...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Honda - Still Holding It’s Own
As I prepare to jet off to France for a week the world wide financial markets would appear to be in freefall...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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VW Polo- Still the Small Car to Beat
A recent TV commercial for the Volkswagen Polo featured a singing dog that was strutting around full of self-confidence whilst it was a passenger in the Polo but as soon as it left the car for different surroundings it became a nervous wreck...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Mitsubishi – Still a Contender
I used to work with a guy who told me that his wife worked for Colt Cars in Cirencester England I remember at the time saying to him “Who the hell are they...
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Used Ford – You Can’t Go Wrong
There was a time when Ford had a pretty awful reputation in the UK Whilst there can be no doubt that Ford have always enjoyed excellent sales figures their cars have sometimes had a reputation for having irritating faults and niggles...
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Jeep – the Name That Evokes Memories
Although Jeep is one of America’s biggest automotive brand names and home to its largest market there can be few people around the rest of world who don’t know the name which is associated with off-roading...
Author: Jon Barlow - Category: Automotive
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Volkswagen – The Key to Its Success
Volkswagen just seems to go from strength to strength In recent times it has quietly risen through the ranks of the motor industry to appear as the third largest car manufacturer in the world today...
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Is That My Vauxhall Van?
Recently my wife seems to have become addicted to ordering things from the internet Hardly a day goes by without there being a knock on the door and I am confronted with some miserable looking delivery driver struggling with a large box and muttering the words “sign here” I am then obliged to attempt to sign one of those infuriating electronic delivery note machines...
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Ford Focus RS – A Blast From the Past!
Old people, don’t you just love ‘em I have just been sitting in the waiting room at my local surgery and whilst being kept waiting for ages to see the Doctor I have had to listen to continuous complaining about how bad things are today...
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