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Finding a car salesman online is easy. Finding one who runs a legitimate dealership, however, can be more challenging. As a consumer, the last thing you want to worry about is whether you’ve chosen to do business with a trustworthy salesman. The search can be especially stressful if you’re strapped for time or, even worse, money. To help alleviate some of the stress that comes along with a new car purchase, consider how you can use the Internet to your advantage when looking to purchase your next car.
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New and refreshed rear-wheel-drive coupes like the Subaru BRZ, Scion FR-S and Hyundai Genesis 2.0T have all but monopolized on the web chit chat this springtime at the $25,000 price point. Ford’s most convincing response to this tech-savvy trio is probably not a V-6 Ford mustang having a live rear axle, however the front-wheel-drive Focus ST, for which powertrain and pricing data was announced Tuesday.
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A fabulous carmaker such as Lamborghini may seem protected from the dull gray world of sales goals and economic cycles. Yet even supercar companies needs to stabilize the books of account, this is why Lamborghini promises to reveal the Urus sport utility concept at the 2012 Beijing auto show.

Even though nominally a concept, the Urus has already been placed by Lamborghini as the imminent sales leader, placed to help outpace the combined gross annual contribution of their midengine Gallardo and Aventador models. The company sold roughly 1,600 cars in Year 2011. In a news release, the car maker revealed 3,000 units as a feasible annual target for the S.U.V., with growing markets such as China and Russia making up a tremendous, if undisclosed, percentage of those sales.

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Whenever a big, bold question like that is asked, it often raises skepticism, as people expect nothing less of all garages across the UK to claim that they’re the best, for one reason or another. What it really takes to weed out the not-so-good ones is for the men and women who actually take their cars to garages up and down the UK, to give their honest opinions and scores.

Motor Codes, the people who provide small and large garages with OFT-approved codes of practice (called the ‘New Car Code’ and the ‘Service and Repair Code’) for maintaining high standards in new car sales, car service and repair, realise that consumer power speaks volumes, so they launched a massive survey to find the Garage Of The Year. Because Motor Codes work with so many garages across the UK of varying sizes, from tiny, local back-street repair workshops right up to large franchised and main dealers, they set the aim of finding the best small and best large garage, to keep things fair.

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WITH diesel is now £1.50 a litre, and petrol not far behind, drivers are starting to take the electric car market a lot more seriously –which is good because there are three new electric vehicles about to appear on the city’s streets, writes Mike Scialom.

This week saw the UK launch of the Renault Twizy, which will be on sale at Cambridge’s Newmarket Road-based Renault dealership, Wests, “before the end of the month”, according to a spokesman for the firm.

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