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The perfect car for London

  last month, I was banging on about the merits of pre-’80s Mercedes-Benzes as city cars for London. A classic Benz over the age of 40 attracts no road tax, escapes the annoying ULEZ charge and is cheap to insure. It also won’t suffer catastrophic depreciation, is sturdily constructed and

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