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Audi RS Q3 depreciates LESS than any other SUV

The Audi RS Q3 – the UK’s lowest depreciating SUV With more and more of us looking at acquiring our new cars on some sort of lease or PCP deal, one of the biggest factors in affordability is the residual price. That’s the price that used car price experts – like CAP – deem a car will be worth after a given period of time and mileage. So it’s good new that CAP have judged the Audi Q3 RS will retain 52 per cent of its value after 3 years/60,000.

Welsh rugby star swaps the ruck for a truck

WALES international rugby star Scott Williams swapped his studs for driving shoes this week as the 2014 British Truck Racing Championship came to Pembrey Circuit. The Scarlets centre was given professional tuition before taking the wheel of the 1,200bhp 5.5-tonne tractor unit himself – and nearly ending up in the crash barriers. Despite his little off, Scott impressed his tutors and even did well enough to warrant a potential future in racing.

Grab a ‘VAT Free’ Skoda Octavia

In yet another ‘Sign of the times’ Skoda has announced that they are now offering ‘VAT Free Octavias’ until the end of the year. No, this is not a tie-up between Alistair Darling and VW, it’s just Skoda’s way of offering a headline price decrease of a bit over 13% (less expensive to Skoda than last week for the same headline, to be fair, and there is a new model due in January!). Grab a VAT free Skoda Octavia I’m pretty sure that there will be a raft of these ‘VAT Free’ offers floating around on everything from cars to washing machines, capitalising on the fact the VAT is in the headlines.