There are plenty of cars you can buy in 2020 for £1000 or less. Indeed, that’s part of the beauty of the British used car market, in which buyers don’t tend to value older cars that are still perfectly usable and reliable. As a result, for the same as you’d spend on a few monthly lease payments on a brand new car, you can own a whole car that should suit most of your motoring needs.
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Are City Cars an Endangered Species? Here are 10 of the best
You might not believe it, but city cars such as the Volkswagen Up, Ford Ka+ and Fiat Panda could well be facing extinction. It’s not a lack of interest from buyers that looks set to cause their downfall, but new exhaust-emission legislation from the European Union, which – somewhat ironically – has hit tiny cars harder than it has bigger, thirstier ones.
[Read more…] about Are City Cars an Endangered Species? Here are 10 of the bestAutomotive Reincarnations: Opel GT and Toyota GT86
The Toyota GT86 has long been the go-to choice for those seeking a fun, affordable and reliable fixed-roof sports car. It has all the key features which many driving enthusiasts are seeking, after all – namely a manual gearbox, a naturally aspirated engine, rear-wheel drive, slick steering and a low kerb weight.
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The 10 best-selling new cars of 2019 might look relatively familiar from previous years. However, when you dig into the numbers it’s clear that much as changed. Where once the new car market bounced from one month of record registrations to the next, in 2019 it continued to cool. Faced with seemingly never-ending political uncertainty, increased taxes and a lack of clarity over the future of diesel, consumers held back on changing to a new car, resulting in a market that was down -2.4% compared with 2018. As such, 2019 marked the third consecutive year of declining sales for the UK new car market.
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A cynic might suggest a coupe is little more than lightly disguised saloon dressed up in a sexy frock to sell at a higher price to gullible customers. While there perhaps was a time when this had some truth to it, a coupe these days needs to be so much more than that. To entice customers away from the mainstream a coupe needs to pull at your heart strings with a combination of style, panache and the promise of driver involvement.
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