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The CarGurus UK blog is packed with news, views and features about the world's most interesting cars (as well as some less interesting ones), all written by some of the UK's best motoring journalists.

Classic Cars

The Classic Cars that are Turning Electric

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Electric cars are becoming an increasingly visible part of the motoring landscape, with models from Tesla, Nissan, BMW, Renault and others slowly gaining traction with buyers. But it’s not just modern car design that’s benefitting from electric power – there’s now also a growing number of classic cars being converted to electric running. In doing so, models that might otherwise be considered as four-wheeled history are being given a whole new lease of life.

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Depreciation Buster: How the BMW 1M has defied the market

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Eight years ago you could have wandered into a BMW dealership, pointed at the muscly little coupe in the corner, signed a few pieces of paper and driven away in a brand new 1 Series M Coupe. You’d have paid a shade under £40,000 for it (before you’d got busy with the options list), and you would have been covered by a full manufacturers’ warranty for the first three years of ownership. As long as you’d been able to resist piling too many miles on to it during those eight happy years, you could now sell your 1M – as the car is far more commonly known – and trouser a small profit.

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Automotive Reincarnations: Land Rover Defender and Subaru Forester

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Few cars can trace their direct lineage as far back as Land Rover’s much-loved Defender. Although the nameplate made its debut in 1990, it simply marked the ongoing development and continuation of a long-running series of Land Rovers – which, in earliest production form, had first taken to the fields in 1948.

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