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    Home improvement: The mechanics turning your drive into a garage
    The RAC is one of many firms offering services at home or a place of work, and the idea is catching onIn most jobs, gratification is rooted in hard metrics: leads, customer conversions, sales and such. But for the RAC's army of mobile mechanics it comes from something altogether more tangible.
    Sean Kimberlin, the RAC's mobile mechanic of the year and guest speaker at the Autocar Drivers of Change awards, says the true marker of a job well done is, in fact, whether the customer offers tea and bis
  • Why you need a used Honda Civic Type R – even if it costs £40k

    Why you need a used Honda Civic Type R – even if it costs £40k
    It's still £40k, and for maybe the zenith of hot hatches worth every pennyIn 2022, jaws dropped when Honda announced the starting price of the 'FL5' Civic Type R as £46,995 - £15,000 more than the 'FK8' had cost six years earlier.
    It was an example of supply economics: numbers were limited in Europe due to CO2 emissions regulations (the Type R emits 186g/km), so even at that inflated price demand outstripped supply.
    Even now, used cars start from around £35,000, or simila