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News 8 Jan, 2014

Vauxhall Astra breaks 18 world and UK speed records following attempt at the end of last year

News 28 May, 2014

TfL says capital's Congestion Charge will be increased to £11.50 per day in June

DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: What a change. The old Mazda 3 was always an entertaining driver, but rather crude and dated when it came to interior and NVH.

While most analysts expected Cuba's

-- Bust out the candles: American success story, visionary futurist and import/export whiz John DeLorean

Nearly 1.4 million F-series trucks, Escapes and

Harman has announced proprietary software which automatically analyses and improves the audio quality of all types of compressed, digitised music sources at the CES show in Las Vegas.

Audio and infotainment supplier Harman is showing its integration of Google Glass with its advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) engine at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

News 7 Jan, 2014

2017 version of Porsche's Cayenne SUV to get Porsche Macan influenced styling

Australians bought a record 1,136,227 cars in 2013, up 2.2% on 2012, the Federal Chambler of Automotive Industries (FCAI) said.

News 6 Jan, 2014

Ford Focus gets new look, revamped engine line-up and plug-in hybrid option

New Zealand's new vehicle importers sold 113,117 cars and light commercials in 2013, up 12.2% year on year and the best result since 1984, the Motor Industry Association (MIA) said.

News 6 Jan, 2014

Mercedes S-Class Coupe is due this year with a £75,000 price tag and hot AMG version

New vehicle sales in Malaysia increased by 3.9% to a record 652,120 units in 2013, from 627,753 units in the previous year, according to preliminary data released by the Malaysia Automotive Institute (MAI).

News 6 Jan, 2014

Citroen DS3 Pink special edition is launched exclusively in the UK, priced from £15,675

News 6 Jan, 2014

Volkswagen joins Mercedes and Subaru in launching a concept car for Gran Turismo 6

Winter storms, a strong November and one less selling day than in December 2012 combined to keep the lid on US light vehicle sales last month as year on year market growth was limited to 2,602 cars and trucks or barely 2%. The seasonally adjusted annualised sales rate (SAAR) came in at 15.4m: well below analyst expectations of 15.8-16m and just 160,000 deliveries ahead of 15.24m a year ago.

Far be it for mere plebes like us to tell the world's movers and shakers how to spend their hard earned/inherited stacks. But, come on, this is a belt buckle that costs $84,000. It doesn't get anymore lifestyleandtrade; than that.

The annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off tomorrow in Las Vegas, in the same massive convention center that held the SEMA show only a few months ago.

On Jan. 3, 1899, the New York Times printed the word "automobile" upon its austere pages. It wasn't the first publication to do so; Scientific American used the phrase "automobile carriage" in a