Hi Brian,
Yes, quite a few people bring their cars. We brought ours on the container with the furniture. Getting the car out of customs and onto the road has proved to be surprisingly easy so far, although we haven't tried registering the car yet!. We did cost the possibility of driving down through Europe and catching a ferry from Bari, Italy. However it would have been more expensive than putting it on the container when taking Ferries hotels, fuel and food into account.

We have only been here six weeks so its impossible for me to say what pension would be about right. Sorry

As regards the best location, I'd like to say Larnaca as that is where the apartment we rent out is *:-), however I'd suggest somewhere closer to Limassol as its more central and would make it easy to go to Paphos (1hr?), Larnaca 3/4 hr?), the Troodos (1/4 hr), Nicosia and even Polis and still give you time to look around. On the other hand, you could fly into Larnaca, stay a week or so and have a look around this side of the island then drive to Paphos stay a week or so there and fly back to the UK from there!