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  Parker's lifts the lid on a fresh round of price increases from April
      Citroen Price rise                             To be announced When From 1 April Last price rise January and February totalling an average 3.5 per cent What they say “Everything is related to the exchange rate differentials. People might think it is...
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  Ka, Fiesta, Focus and Mondeo hit by 3.75 per cent price increase
  Ford has announced across-the-board price rises that will increase the cost of some of Britain’s best-selling cars by 3.75 per cent. From 1 April, the cost of a Ka will rise by an...
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  March 23 named as the best car buying day in 2009
  Parker’s has named 23 March as the best day to buy a car in 2009.  Anyone buying in March stands to make substantial savings on what they would have spent this time...
• Further Price Rises for Britain’s best-selling cars in the ‘near future’
  Parker’s is urging buyers to make the most of low prices currently available on new and nearly-new cars, as prices rises are likely later in the year. Ford has warned that the new prices of...
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  Buyers may be wasting money on diesel cars
  Hundreds of thousands of drivers choosing diesel new cars could be wasting money instead of saving it, according to research by Parkers. Increases in the cost of diesel at the pump...
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  Car costs down in December
  Official figures show that car running costs continued to fall in December. The Office of National Statistics Consumer Price Index showed a drop in the price of fuel, new and used cars and...
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  Insurance set to soar in 2009
  Car owners could see insurance costs rise by up to 20 per cent over the coming year. Insurance companies are warning that a rise in the cost of personal injury claims and increased fraud...
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  Buy small to save big in 2009
  Parker’s annual depreciation report shows that the Toyota Aygo was Britain’s slowest depreciating car in 2008. We compared last January’s new prices with what an owner could expect to get if...
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  Beware 'buy one get one free' offers
  The latest offer we spotted is on a Citroen C4 Picasso Lounge for £23,995 with a Citroen C1 Vibe thrown in completely free. The deal is only available from Roger Sixsmith’s...
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  Supermarkets fight to slash prices
  Tesco   |   Morrisons   |   Asda   |   Sainsbury’s  How much could your supermarket save you? Britain’s top supermarkets are continuing to cut the cost of fuel, with petrol no at...
• Car costs down in November
  Official figures show that the cost of motoring continued to drop in November as overall inflation fell. The Office of National Statistics Consumer Price Index showed a drop in the cost of...
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  This year's best new car deal
  Car buyers can buy a brand new Mazda CX-7 for £24,970 and get a Mazda 2 completely free – the best deal we have seen this year. Emgmotorgroup.com is not the first dealer...
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  Two cars for the price of one
  An online car broker is offering a ‘buy one car, get one free’ offer for the second time in a month. Buyers can get two Magentis 2.0i GS Manual with air...
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  Costs fall in October
  Official figures for October show that the cost of owning a car continued to fall, after a Summer of escalating costs. The Office for National Statistics Consumer Price Index showed...
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  Huge savings on next year's cars
  Online car supermarkets are already selling the brand new Volkswagen Golf, Renault Megane and Toyota Avensis with huge savings – weeks before they’re available in UK showrooms.  Volkswagen Golf 2.0 TDi GT...
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  Big savings at the Nissan sale
  There are big savings to be made on a number of Nissan models until the 7th December. Buyers need to act quickly, however, as the sale lasts for just three weeks. Buyers...
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  Buy one car, get one free
  An online car broker is offering an unprecedented ‘buy one car, get one free’ offer. Broadspeed.com is advertising “Two new 2.4 Auto saloons for £20K”. Parkers has learnt that these are Dodge...
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  City bankers forced to sell, sell, sell
  Global economic uncertainty and crashing stock markets have forced owners of expensive cars – such as Ferrari, Aston Martin, Porsche and Jaguar models – to consider downgrading to something more...
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  Motoring costs fall in September
  Official figures for September show that plummeting used car prices brought down the overall cost of motoring, while pump price cuts gave much-needed relief to drivers suffering rising costs elsewhere....
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  Gordon Brown: "I want fuel price cuts passed on, and passed on quickly"
  Gordon Brown has demanded that prices at the pumps comes down further, despite a number of supermarkets cutting prices this week.  Asda and Morrisons have cut petrol prices by 1p per litre,...