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Top Tips for Buying a Used Porsche 964 (1989-93)
It is said that cockroaches, ants and sharks will all survive Armageddon, and to that list we might add the...

Top Tips for Buying a Used Ferrari F430 (2005-10)
Taking inspiration from the exotic Enzo, Ferrari’s F430 brought new levels of sophistication and performance to the Prancing Horse brand’s...

Top Tips for Buying a Used Nissan Skyline GT-R R33 (1995-98)
Few cars produced during the past 50 years have been more influential or controversial than Nissan’s all-wheel drive supercar the...

Top Tips for Buying a Used Porsche 993 (1994-97)
Australia in the 1990s was a tough place to be selling $200,000 sports cars, but the arrival of Porsche’s 993...

Top Tips for Buying a Used Volkswagen Kombi Type 2 (1954-67)
The first Volkswagen Transporter can trace its origins to the parts delivery mules that scuttled around Volkswagen’s factory in Wolfsburg....

Top Tips for Buying a Used Datsun 1200 (1970-85)
A year after Datsun’s 1600 began wreaking havoc on Australia’s Medium Car segment, the Small Car market was assailed by...

Top Tips for Buying a Used Cadillac Eldorado (1967-78)
At around the same time as BMC was rolling out its compact, front-wheel drive Mini, General Motors was working on...

Top Tips for Buying a Used Nissan Silvia S13-S15 (1988-2002)
Nissan had been building rear-wheel drive coupes in Japan under the Silvia nameplate since the 1960s, but it wasn’t until...

Top Tips for Buying a Used Leyland Mini Moke Californian (1971-1982)
When British Motor Corporation (BMC) set out to design a small front-wheel drive vehicle with a removable fabric roof that...

Top Tips For Buying a Used Honda Integra Type R (1999-2002)
The first-generation Honda Integra arrived in Japan in early 1985 as an attractive mid-priced coupe in the mould of Toyota’s...

Top Tips for Buying a Used Holden Monaro HQ GTS (1971-74)
Holden’s HQ range was launched in August 1971 to a rapturous reception from the media and buyers. After all, this...

Top Tips for Buying a Used Toyota Soarer (1991-2000)
For reasons best known to Toyota Australia the slinky Soarer coupe was never officially imported here, but that didn’t stop...

Top Tips for Buying a Used Toyota MR2 Turbo (1990-98)
Nicknamed ‘Mister Two’ from the day it was launched in 1984, Toyota’s mid-engined MR2 was flagged as a mini-Ferrari despite...