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Taking delivery of a new car is an exciting time for anyone, but there was an added bonus for civil servant Jason Wilson – he won his new Fiat Bravo in a national motoring magazine competition.

The 38-year-old Derby man was the triumphant entry picked from a total of 226,000 hopefuls in an Auto Express competition run earlier this year to celebrate the magazine’s 1,000th issue.

Father-of-two Jason said he was “ecstatic†when he was told he had won the top-of-the-range £16,355 Bravo 1.9 16v MultiJet 150 Sport – even though he didn’t believe it at first.

“I thought someone was winding me up when Auto Express rang to tell me that I had won the car,†said Jason. “You enter these competitions but you don’t actually... // Easier