So you've chosen a car, been approved for car finance or are ready to take the car. What happens when a used car breaks down, though? If the car is a few years old, there's a possibility that the original manufacturer's warranty is no longer active. Don't worry, though. What you want is a third-party warranty, or it's surprisingly easy to get a good deal!

I took the site photographs on an eerily silent, misty April morning at 5am; we did the recce or measuring later that month, travelling on both occasions in my 28 year old Citroen CX Prestige. For the final trip to our client's broad, beautiful garden, though, we hired a Mercedes Sprinter van - you can't fit a stage in a Prestige, even if you were strange enough not to care about the interaction or steel struts or your leather upholstery.

The fairer sex has always found it difficult to have a say while buying a car; more so when men sometimes love their cars more than women. Even Hollywood flicks show girls in a stereotypical way - where a clueless women walks in a car showroom and a sly salesman looks at her with glee. But times have changed and women now are getting smarter when it comes to buying a car.