Launched on 26 August 1981 as an all new, front wheel drive range of passenger cars. Become Britain’s second-best selling car (behind the Ford Escort) in 1984 and 1985 Vauxhall sold 807,624 units of the Cavalier Mk II between 1981 and 1988.
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AI is coming to get you apparently. Well, it certainly caught me out a little while ago. Nobody died as a result, I was just very disappointed in myself, but I realised that there is something which can be done about all this. You can either humour me and join in, or flounce off to
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This is the sort of story that we like to read and trust you do too, it's important when it cones to buying your next new car. New research reveals which car brands are most and least prone to technology-related MOT failures and recalls. Smart, Dacia and Suzuki rank as the most reliable brands for
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Car Taxation is Death And Bangernomics is on life support This increased taxation is nothing less than imminent death for a lot of very decent used cars. It also presents me with an opportunity to mention the fact that I have updated one Bangerpedia 2000 to 2010 and written another 2010 to 2020. I’d be
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New survey explores how long Brits are keeping their cars for and what’s stopping them from upgrading. One in five UK (21%) drivers keep their cars for an average of six to nine years, with 11% holding on for a decade or more. Cost plays a key role, with 39% saying new cars are too
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We love Bangers at Free Car Mag, probably because we own several and our editor coined the term Bangernomics and has written 40 years worth of Bangerpedias, so this is a subject close to our heart. The Stats though from Tempcover suggest that their time on our roads is running out which is a great
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They won’t like us when they are angry… It could have been worse or even worseserer I suppose especially for drivers. Colonel Rachel Klebb, as we like to call her at Free Car Mag (see further Colonel Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love, with poison tipped comfortable shoes). Anyway Rosa, sorry Rachel had to
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I had no burning desire to write a novel, but by the end it was such great fun. Making things up always is, not only that, there is a lot of solar hate facts woven into the narrative, so hopefully readers will learn something. I started off following the Solomon’s Mines story and occasionally use
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Your Children are unlikely be allowed to drive a car If the current political and economic trajectory continues, the chances of a youngster, early teen and probably pre teen being able to drive, seems quite remote. That’s your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. They will need to have Let me explain. The simple truth is
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A new study has revealed the ten car models that will go extinct first. The Hyundai Coupe has topped the ranking. Car parts marketplace Ovoko gathered a list of the most popular petrol and diesel car models from YouGov and calculated their rate of decline from the number of registrations in the UK. They were then able
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Welcome to Kerbcrawler and specifically the very first one. Thanks for taking the time to read this. If you don’t like Jags then I’m afraid there will be rather a lot of that for a couple of weeks, then normal service, (cheapie MOT borderline cars) will be resumed. It is just that the survival of
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Free Car Mag Editor, James Ruppert, that’s me, is now on Substack taking about my specialist subject: used cars. Following some changes, it was time to put the best used car material on some new platforms. That also includes Free Car Mag as well as the fancy Substack website. What you will get at Bangernomics
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