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Resigned to Domestication: Buying a Family Car - 2005

It's no easy decision handing over thousands of pounds of hard-earned cash for a large hunk of metal on wheels. We want to try and collate some information on the models that can be had before pounding the forecourts.

Here it is!

17 Nov 2005

It's been 24 hours since we bought the Passat, and it hasn't been used once. The weather's been miserable too, but we're determined not to use ...

So much for Protracted Buying Process

16 Nov 2005

There we were, getting prepared to investigate every estate car and MPV under the Sun, when all of a sudden (almost) we now own one! It's ...

The marketplace

28 Oct 2005

A quick scan of Autotrader reveals that ?5K can typically buy you:- A 3-year-old Vauxhall Zafira with 70,000 miles A 4-5-year-old Zafira ...


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