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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 [...]

THE PR campaign to promote our Hyundai i10 World Cup car auction has had the desired affect… The car WILL sell – now it’s just a case of finding out how much for! The sale, in aid of automotive industry charity BEN, has even made headlines around the world. It’s featured on websites in America, [...]

OUR Hyundai i10 World Cup car has gone up for sale on eBay – now all we need is a buyer… On Friday the car featured in the local paper – a day early, despite our request, but I suppose we should just be glad it got in. We’re hoping that will drum up some [...]

RANDOM things happen when you drive a car around that looks like the BFG has inserted his football into it. Everyone stops and stares. Most point. Some laugh. And I can tell you Gosport’s dentists have been busy because I’ve been shown more fillings in the last 24 hours than a pie man… I really [...]

NO, you’re not hallucinating – that really is a Hyundai i10 with a giant football bolted on top. And yes, it does have green grass all over the bodywork, and yes, that is a goal post bolted to the bonnet. Oh, and yes those are football boots as wing mirrors. And did I mention we’ve [...]

OUR Ford Fiesta bought from Lifestyle Europe has sold – and we’ve doubled our money for BEN in the process! It wasn’t easy though – my blood pressure has been up and down like a yo-yo! It all started so well. As you know Lifestyle Europe helped us find an absolute corking Fiesta for our [...]

FANTASTIC – as if my Monday morning mood couldn’t get any worse, I found this in the gutter as I walked to work… We’d parked our 911 for 2011 Ford Fiesta outside the office over the weekend and I’ve just turned up to find some low life piece of toilet scum has done this. Now [...]

OUR 911 for 2011 Ford Fiesta is up for sale on classified website Auto Trader – and we’ve been a little bit cheeky. The car is an absolute peach. Bought trade from our friends at Lifestyle Europe, it’s done a ridiculously low 46k miles, has 12 months MOT, 6 months tax and full service history. [...]

ANOTHER one bites the dust! Our bid to turn £0 into a Porsche 911 has climbed another rung of the ladder with the second of our starting duo finding a new home. The VW Golf MkIII – donated to the cause by Motorpoint’s Auction4Cars.com arm – was sold on eBay last night for £250. Yes, [...]

Sounds like a tough ask? You bet it is, but that won’t stop us having a good go at it. What are we talking about? Well, we plan to turn these two cars into a Porsche 911, by 2011. Simple. Ish. Here is a copy of the first feature that appeared in the June issue of [...]

OUR bid to turn some favours into a 911 by the end of the year has got of to a great start with our Audi selling for nearly £800. The 1.6-litre, S-reg model was kindly donated by M25 Audi, and we listed it on auction website eBay a week ago. Because the car had a [...]

THEY don’t make it easy for you, do they? I’m not technology luddite, nor am I that unfamiliar with eBay, but either they didn’t want our Audi listed or I was doing something wrong. Talk about obstacles. Listing the first rung on the ladder for our 911 for 2011 feature felt like an online Army [...]

OUR quest to turn £0.00 into a Porsche 911 by trading up cars is off to a cracking start thanks to not one, but two very generous dealers! When we put the call out for help on our website and Twitter for our 911 for 2011 feature we were quickly contacted by two dealers offering [...]

OUR Trading Up feature has finally begun – and we’ve decided to give it a catchier name! Henceforth known as the ‘911 for 2011’ feature we have inadvertently set ourselves a deadline in exchange for a catchy title. That does of course depend on how you interpret it – it could mean any time in [...]

CAR Dealer is taking on a new challenge to raise money for automotive industry charity BEN. It’s called Trading Up and will see us start with a car worth around £250 – or better still find a company to donate one to us – which we’ll sell on. Once sold, we’ll roll the entire fund [...]