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We were urged to sell our Renault on at (almost) any price, says James Baggott I’ll admit it, the digital guffaws and online ribbing about the very fact we’d bought a Renault Scenic did take their toll. The minute we posted last month’s magazine update on the world wide web, the text messages, emails and tweets [...]

It soon became clear that our Citroen wasn’t going anywhere fast, so we traded it on, reports James Baggott I always knew it to be the case but now, having traded a few, I’ve had a glimpse as to just how hard it must be selling second-hand cars for a living. The stress of dealing [...]

If you see James Batchelor can you kick him for me. Thanks. He was the man behind last month’s 911 for 2011 update and looking back over the copy I can see why we’re in the state we’re in now. ‘Unusually for us, things are going quite smoothly,’ were the fateful words our young hack started [...]

UNUSUALLY for us, things are going quite smoothly with our 911 for 2011 challenge. When we signed off last month we had just taken delivery of a Citroen C4 Grand Picasso VTR+ with the economical 1.6-litre diesel engine. Marc Raven, Citroen’s communications boss, had sourced the car for us, and we planned to turn it around [...]

WE’VE finally managed to get our latest 911 for 2011 chariot up for sale – now the waiting game begins. Our Citroen C4 Grand Picasso has been shod with new tyres, thanks to Continental, and has had three stone chips and dings expertly repaired by Chips Away – all it needs now is a new [...]

DEVELOPMENTS with our new 911 for 2011 purchase are gathering pace quicker than we ever expected. We’ve only had the seven-seat C4 Picasso for a few weeks, but now the car has a new set of boots courtesy of Continental, and ably fitted by National tyres. But we need to rewind time a little to [...]

The CLK has gone and we’ve invested our pot into the next step on our ladder First things first. We made a slight accounting error last month which I’ll blame on doing sums on deadline. Our current total doesn’t currently reside at £9,418, it’s in fact the slightly lower figure of £8,970. The cash counting [...]

Not all was well with our CLK’s roof, but it eventually worked out in BEN’s favour Things don’t always go smoothly in the motor trade and as our 911 for 2011 campaign continues we’ve certainly discovered that. First a quick recap of where we are. At the beginning of December we invested £6k of the kitty we’d [...]

I’ve decided that if we ever do make it to our goal of trading up from nothing to a Porsche 911 in our charity challenge I will keep driving it to a minimum. Why? Well it seems Porsche has become my bogey brand; my Friday 13th of car makers. Once again I’ve had to make [...]

OUR latest purchase in our bid to turn £0 into a Porsche 911 has arrived – and it’s an absolute corker. Marshall Motor Group’s chief executive Daksh Gupta has done us, and in turn BEN, one huge favour by sourcing us this cracking Mercedes CLK. We picked up the convertible 240 model from Mercedes Benz [...]

Well that didn’t take long! Just days after selling our last MX-5 we’ve bought the next car in our 911 for 2011 challenge. Thanks to a very good trade deal from Marshall Group we’ve managed to secure this stunning Mercedes CLK Convertible for just £6,000! Currently up for sale for £9,000 at the group’s Bolton [...]

SOME good news at long last – our second Mazda MX-5 has finally found a new home selling for £1,120! We listed it with a starting price of £495 on eBay – lowered from £995 after the initial auction failed to find it a buyer two weeks ago. We were rather worried it wasn’t going [...]

MAZDA MX-5 auction, scene one, part two… and this time let’s hope we get a bidder that sticks with it! The second of our Mazdas – being sold as part of our attempt to turn £0 into a Porsche 911 in aid of BEN – went back up for sale on eBay last night. It [...]

WHOEVER said you couldn’t sell a car via Twitter was lying. Because we’ve got proof that it can be done! On Saturday we sold the first of our Mazda MX-5 pairing after a conversation that started on the social networking website. Last Wednesday Golley Slater PR Suzanne Tennant – pictured right – tweeted that she [...]

FINALLY! We’ve managed to get our act together and put one of our Mazda MX-5s up for sale on eBay. Yes, I know, this one has dragged on a bit too long, but that’s what happens when you ‘buy’ recon work (as I’m sure you know). Unlike you guys I couldn’t moan at the service [...]

WE left you on Friday with news that our two MX-5s had passed their MOTs and all that was needed was a good polish. The cars have been bought as part of our 911 for 2011 quest – an attempt to turn £0 into a Porsche by (sometime in) 2011 in aid of automotive industry [...]

It’s been a while since we updated you on our quest to turn £0 into a Porsche 911 for BEN by 2011. But there’s finally some good news to report. Two of our three Mazda MX-5s have finally got through their MOTs and are just about ready for sale. Matt Kendell of White’s Motors, Portsmouth, [...]

OUR trio of Mazda MX-5s bought as part of our 911 for 2011 bid have got a celebrity connection! You may remember the Hyundai i10 World Cup car we sold as part of our charity challenge was formerly driven by Jeremy Clarkson, Tiff Needell and The Stig as part of their Duel video. Well, now [...]

AFTER the incredible highs of selling our Hyundai i10 World Cup car for £3,005 more than we paid for it… … you’ll have to forgive the lack of an update on our 911 for 2011 campaign. But just because we’ve been celebrating for the last week doesn’t mean our attempt to turn £0 into a [...]

OUR Hyundai i10 World Cup car has SOLD on auction website eBay for a staggering £5,005! The grass-covered car was the fourth step on the ladder in our attempt to turn £0 into a Porsche 911 by 2011 and has boosted our coffers enormously! We won’t reveal how much we paid for the car here [...]