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		<title>Hold your horses - why I&#8217;m a sucker for a red &#8216;i&#8217;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you should get a chance to visit the wonderful Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, it really is a great experience. Having queued for a while outside and paid your 10 Euros,  you&#8217;ll first take an elegant glass lift to the top floor. As you emerge from the lift, you&#8217;re immediately confronted by a lifesize model of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegarageblog.co.uk/2010/03/02/hold-your-horses-why-im-a-sucker-for-a-red-i/</link>
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		<title>When technology leaves me cold - why can&#8217;t I just drive and not iDrive?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once of the (very few) benefits of working in the motor trade is that I get to sample a wide variety of different cars, either owned by our customers, or ones I&#8217;m trading. In a typical day, I might drive 6 or 7 different cars, and often return home from the garage in a different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegarageblog.co.uk/2010/02/16/when-technology-leaves-me-cold-are-cars-becoming-too-complicated-to-enjoy/</link>
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		<title>Ripped-off in the USA, and when even the air in your tyres doesn&#8217;t come for free.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I don&#8217;t know where January has gone, but it&#8217;s already nearly over. Despite the fact that my wife hasn&#8217;t yet taken-down the Christmas tree, we&#8217;re nearly in February and according to the news yesterday, we&#8217;re supposed to be out of the recession. Not that you&#8217;d think so by looking at all the boarded-up shops [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegarageblog.co.uk/2010/01/28/ripped-off-in-the-usa-and-when-even-the-air-in-your-tyres-doesnt-come-for-free/</link>
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		<title>More winter woes - what&#8217;s snow good for?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last two weeks, almost every aspect of our daily lives has been disrupted by a lot of crystalline water ice precipitation, known to the masses as SNOW. Now, I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s something wrong with me, but I actually really don&#8217;t like snow one little bit. I just can&#8217;t see the pleasure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegarageblog.co.uk/2010/01/14/more-winter-woes-whats-snow-good-for/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year from thegarageblog.co.uk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I know it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve added a new post but things became somewhat hectic during December and it was almost impossible to find a &#8217;spare&#8217; hour to share my musings. Still, having just returned from a little holiday in Europe, I&#8217;m feeling refreshed and ready to go again, despite the prospect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegarageblog.co.uk/2010/01/03/happy-new-year-from-thegarageblogcouk/</link>
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		<title>When D.I.Y. can spell divorce - the battle of the sexes continues.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the invention of the automobile, motoring has always been considered something of a masculine business.  Admittedly, motorists in the early days had to be pretty adventurous sorts to master the numerous procedures involved in starting and driving one of the new-fangled automobiles.  Just to start the engine involved a long-winded ritual of having to turn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegarageblog.co.uk/2009/11/25/when-diy-can-spell-divorce-the-battle-of-the-sexes-continues/</link>
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		<title>Where have all the good part-exchanges gone? Blame the scrappage scheme!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an occasional dealer in top-quality used cars, I used to enjoy the simple pleasure of picking up a nice &#8216;cheapy&#8217; for a customer. Typically 9 or 10 years old, a little Fiesta, Polo or Clio would be taken in part-exchange by a garage against a newer car and I&#8217;d then buy it from the dealer at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegarageblog.co.uk/2009/11/13/where-have-all-the-good-part-exchanges-gone-blame-the-scrappage-scheme/</link>
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		<title>Think of a price, then double it - some truths about garage repair costs.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They say it always pays to &#8217;shop around&#8217; and in these days of misery and recession, the savvy consumer is haggling harder on anything and everything. Whether it&#8217;s a new sofa or a plasma TV, there&#8217;s deals to be had everywhere as retailers fight to squeeze any spare money out of you in the hope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegarageblog.co.uk/2009/10/22/think-of-a-price-then-double-it-the-truth-beind-garage-repair-costs/</link>
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		<title>Tales of the humble windscreen wiper, and some prices to wipe the smile off your face.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One aspect of the traditional British weather is that we&#8217;re generally guaranteed a fair amount of rain. As I am rarely a pedestrian theses days (except if forced to park my car 100 yards away), most of my experience of rain is from behind a windscreen and as with most modern conveniences, a quick flick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegarageblog.co.uk/2009/10/11/tales-of-the-humble-windscreen-wiper-and-some-prices-to-wipe-the-smile-off-your-face/</link>
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		<title>Pity the poor car dealer for a change at part-exchange time.</title>
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Whatever image you might have of the tradidional used car dealer, you can be sure that there&#8217;ll be references to &#8216;Arthur Daley&#8217; and visions of sheepskin coat clad, Rolex-wearing characters that speak in rhyming slang. Everyone has a tale of how they (or someone they know) was &#8216;ripped-off&#8217; by a dodgy saleman who flogged them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thegarageblog.co.uk/2009/09/24/pity-the-poor-car-dealer-for-a-change/</link>
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