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Test your knowledge: With what other event does the...

The Paris motor show, or Mondial de l'Automobile as it has been known in the French-speaking world since 1988, opened its doors for the first time...
Published 26 September 2014
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News: Abolition of tax disc angers boy with 12,000...

From next Wednesday the tax disc is no more, but while most people will be rejoicing about no longer having to carefully tear out the flimsy circle...
Published 26 September 2014
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News: Pensioner flies 10,000 miles to UK to ride in...

To most people, Bean and cars mean a rubber-faced comic driving a bashed-up Mini, but to one pensioner living in Australia, they mean a trip down...
Published 26 September 2014
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News: Ferrari 458 Speciale A is £230,000 top-down...

Can less sometimes be more? This is what Ferrari engineers must have contemplated before they sliced the top off what is arguably the world’s most...
Published 25 September 2014
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News: Tesco takes action after contaminated diesel...

TESCO IS digging up one of its fuel stations after 100 drivers filled their cars with contaminated diesel that caused damage worth up to £500,000.
Published 25 September 2014
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News: David Hasselhoff takes Justin Bieber for a ride...

With David Hasselhoff at the wheel, Justin Bieber leans out of the side window of Kitt, the Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am from the Hoff’s 1982 TV series...
Published 25 September 2014
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Testing the Nissan GT-R Nismo’s record run at the...

The challenge was simple: find out whether the new Nissan GT-R Nismo is the world’s fastest sports car. Nissan thinks it is. Last November, the...
Published 25 September 2014
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10 bizarre celebrity motoring endorsements

Ever since Clyde Barrow wrote to Henry Ford, creator of the Model T, congratulating him on the speed and comfort of his Ford V8, car makers have been...
Published 25 September 2014
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News: 2015 Renault Espace revealed but it won't be...

Thirty years after the first Espace was launched, an event that marked the birth of the modern-day people carrier, Renault has unveiled its great...
Published 25 September 2014
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News: Roof raised on new Audi TT Roadster

With winter beckoning, Audi has done the decent thing and shown us a vision of sunnier times with the unveiling of the all-new TT Roadster, ahead...
Published 24 September 2014
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News: Anti-litter crusader makes car drivers’ lives...

A girl on a motorcycle rides around looking for people throwing rubbish out of their car ‒ and throws it right back inside their vehicle...
Published 24 September 2014
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News: VW reveals Golf Alltrack with off-road ambitions

SUV fever has finally caught up with the VW Golf in the shape of the Golf Alltrack, a highish-riding, four-wheel-drive estate with butch, go-anywhere...
Published 24 September 2014