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Always Worth Saying’s Car Review, Part Four

23rd March 2024 Always Worth Saying 1907 Comments

Throwing an irritating but irresistible Mercedes CLA around the lanes en route to a Cheshire set party at one of the better Northwich-Knutsford-Sandbach triangle golf clubs, allows a gentleman to reminisce upon his car history. [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Car Review, Part Three

16th March 2024 Always Worth Saying 1569 Comments

After boring Puffins and Mr Thrifty’s car hire with my vehicle history and a sorry tale of having to rent a car for a Cheshire Set party (while mine was being repaired following an Act [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Car Review, Part Two

9th March 2024 Always Worth Saying 1522 Comments

The businessman’s businessman, over the phone Mr Thrifty confided since the pandemic I was only his 6th customer. They now rent to trade and for insurance purposes rather than to passing trade or to those [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Car Review

2nd March 2024 Always Worth Saying 2467 Comments

Prelude? Yes, prelude. The Honda Prelude? No. The type of prelude that the dictionary reveals as an action or event serving as an introduction to something more important. Let me begin. The marketing gurus ask [more…]

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14th November 2020 Tom Pudding 2636 Comments

1950s Motoring Memories When I was growing up in the 1950s I only knew two other children at my junior school whose parents owned a car. One was the son of a butcher whose dad [more…]

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Car Review: Porsche 997 Gen 1 911 Turbo

20th October 2020 Martin Mezger 3023 Comments

I purchased this car in 2013, following the demise of my Carrera 4 996 911.  The 996 series of 911 suffered from cylinder liner failure, amongst many other problems, which is what nabbed mine.   The [more…]

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My Cars

4th September 2020 Going Postal 3649 Comments

I’ve owned cars for almost fifty years now. For most of that time I’ve been down at the “bangernomics” end of the scale of car ownership – buy ’em cheap, run ’em, scrap ’em and [more…]

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Car Review: Renault Type AI Sport CT

21st August 2020 Tachybaptus 3449 Comments

It was after the third accident in the pony trap going down Pitsford Hill that my wife said to me, ‘We really ought to buy a motor car. After all, this is 1910 and we [more…]

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Car Review: Volkswagen T-Cross 1.0 R-Line DSG

14th August 2020 Going Postal 3353 Comments

As GP has recently turned into an alternative source of information for the motoring enthusiast, I thought I would join Always Worth Saying and Phil the Test Manager in writing a motoring review. We took [more…]

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