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Datsun? No, Honda crashed at southern end of the M1 (8,3,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

thousand and one

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'the m1' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.

'datsun? no honda crashed at southern end' is the wordplay.
'no' becomes 'o' (resembles 0 - 'no' can mean 'zero').
'crashed' is an anagram indicator.
'at' says to put letters next to each other.
'southern end' becomes 'ne' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'datsun'+'o'+'honda'='datsunohonda'
'datsunohonda' anagrammed gives 'thousandando'.
'thousandando'+'ne'='THOUSAND AND ONE'

'of' acts as a link.

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