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Normally we despair of online car adverts – writing your sales pitch all in capital letters and telling porkies about how quick your modified hatchback is generally won’t get us to part with our cash.

That’s why this Porsche 911 Targa owner is such a breath of fresh air and why everyone with a car to sell should pay attention to his advert entitled “Get a life. Buy my Porsche.”

Ok, you probably won’t go to the lengths he has to sell his 145,000 mile 1985 classic, as he has created a two minute 30 seconds video and put together a website and a full photo shoot to accompany his Auto Trader ad. Read the rest of this entry »

Zachary Bickett, Illinois

1976 Pacer When they started the restoration, “My body man said, ‘You better get down here and look at this,’” says Scott Bickett, Zachary’s father, who bought the Pacer for $4000 and has spent another $8000 on it since then. “It had been painted eight times. At Walmart one day, I came out and this kid was taking pictures of it with his cell phone. He was all breathless—I thought he had asthma—and he said, ‘Is this a concept vehicle? Read the rest of this entry »

It was at the New York auto show six years ago that Jeep introduced the first Grand Cherokee SRT8. When it debuted, any context for the truck was nearly nonexistent—although a bizarrely appropriate challenger appeared at that same show in the form of the Chevrolet TrailBlazer SS. Now, though, with

becoming more commonplace, things have changed. As soon as the

was announced, the question on everybody’s lips was, “Will there be another SRT8?”

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We recently reported that Saab has given a midcycle nip-and-tuck to its bread-and-butter for 2008. The update includes a relatively thorough—if not extreme—exterior styling makeover, as well as the availability of all-wheel drive on the 9-3 Aero XWD, the latter being music to the ears of anyone who has ever tried to wrestle a front-wheel-drive turbo Saab into obedience under full throttle.

But now we have more information about Saab’s first-ever all-wheel-drive 9-3. First, it comes mated to an even more powerful version of the turbocharged 2.8-liter V-6 we’ve sampled before in front-wheel-drive versions of the

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