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1. 1. Getting help to stay alive

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 14 March 2005 IT'S usually the know-it-all bikers who end up amid the accident statistics. And the message from the Motor Cycle Industry Association is that all of us - even the most seasoned two-wheel traveller - has something to learn.

2. 2. Roadtest: Peugeot Bipper Tepee

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 07 October 2009 IT tells you something about the personality of a car when the kids like it so much that they give it a name. The name my eldest chose for Peugeot's quirky Bipper Tepee car-cum-van was Sally.

3. 3. Plain-speaking Volvo V50

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 14 February 2005 HERE'S one for all you film buffs. Do you remember Crazy People, the 1990 Dudley Moore comedy movie with little Dud as an advertising executive for a US agency, suddenly afflicted with a prolonged bout of plain-speaking?

4. 4. Harley's Street Rod's no hog

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 17 May 2005 HARLEY-Davidson have enjoyed success with their V-Rod performance cruiser, which has attracted many riders to the US brand who perhaps wouldn't have considered owning one before.

5. 5. Brendan Coogan column: The future is not public transport

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 07 July 2005 I USE this column as therapy. Most weeks, I sound off about whatever has been bothering, irritating or even amusing me. It's usually motoring- related. No one wants to read about how I find Miss Hooley from Balamory strangely attractive. But, as a rule, I generally avoid the big issues.

6. 6. Brendan Coogan: Lifestyle cars ? They think we are mugs

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 17 June 2005 I AM always amused by the marketing men and women's attempts to get us to buy their cars. One subtle sledgehammer of a trick is to tie their car in with a lifestyle product. In the past, cars have been associated with clothes, trainers, water (yes, water) and watches.

7. 7. New Kitemark for used cars

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 27 September 2005 MOST drivers have a tale of rip-off servicing costs to relate, and some can even tell real horror stories about poor& standards of workmanship.

8. 8. Shogun - street-cred and county kudos

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 19 July 2005 THEY divide motoring opinion like no other type of vehicle. Many of us are happy to refer to them as four-wheel drives, 4x4s, sports utility vehicles or soft-roaders, while others tend to call them names that would be unsuitable to print in a family newspaper.

9. 9. Alfa bets on bright future in the UK

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 17 March 2005 Alfa Romeo are going places - especially in Britain. The launch of the revised 147 range saw Jeff Culkin, marketing director for Alfa Romeo UK, proclaim a great future for the brand on these shores.

10. 10. Road test: Maserati Quattroporte

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 25 September 2009 I HAVEN'T always got it right when it comes to picking the appropriate form of transport for my 'baby' sister. Way back when she was five or six, and I was 13 or 14, I foolishly got her to sit on the handlebars of my BMX bike, just like E.T.

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