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Bertrand Baguette rates his chances of a seat in formula one this season as "small". Full story...

SENIOR EDITOR FOR NEWS BOB GRITZINGER: If you don't have to have a third row of seats, or cargo capacity fit for a king and his court, consider the GLK350. In the luxury-small-ute category, this is as good as they get. Full story...

Not so long ago, seats were seats. But with intense competition in the marketplace and technology advancing, the focus on car seat design has heightened. For more than a decade, Matthew Beecham has monitored events at Lear Corp, one of the world's largest seat makers. Here, he asks Jeff Frelich, Lear Corp's director of research and design, seating systems, about the role of Lear's ComforTec Consumer Comfort Systems, consumer clinics and its so-called Flexible Seat Architecture which can be found today in some 20 million cars across 13 different vehicle lines. Full story...

Mercedes-Benz' F 800 Style research vehicle is showing the future of premium automobiles from a new perspective, as the five-seat upper-range sedan combines highly efficient drive technologies with unparalleled safety and convenience features and an emotive design idiom, which interprets current Mercedes-Benz styling in line with the brand's hallmark attribute of cultivated sportiness. Full story...

Mercedes-Benz' F 800 Style research vehicle is showing the future of premium automobiles from a new perspective, as the five-seat upper-range sedan combines highly efficient drive technologies with unparalleled safety and convenience features and an emotive design idiom, which interprets current Mercedes-Benz styling in line with the brand's hallmark attribute of cultivated sportiness. Full story...

Detroit - Cadillac today announced expanded availability of Recaro performance seats in the 2010 CTS Sport Sedan. Recaro 14-way adjustable seats are now available in limited quantity as a $2800 option on the Premium and Performance trim levels of the 2010 model CTS Sport Sedans. Full story...

Bruno Senna met with the new bosses of the Campos team on Sunday. Full story...

Two rainy days of exclusive team "filming" at Jerez was actually Giancarlo Fisichella's first chance to drive the new Ferrari F10 single seater. It had been reported that the Italian team's use of Jerez on Monday and Tuesday featured Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa at the wheel of the red car. Full story...

Ford will debut production versions of the new C-Max and Grand C-Max wagons at the Geneva auto show. Full story...

Ford will debut production versions of the new C-Max and Grand C-Max wagons at the Geneva auto show. Full story...

Ford will debut production versions of the new C-Max and Grand C-Max compact minivans at the Geneva auto show on March 2. The automaker also will discuss its global C-car strategy and introduce an additional Focus model. Full story...

Ford will debut production versions of the new C-Max and Grand C-Max minivans at the Geneva auto show on March 2. Full story...

This week I am driving a Metallic White 2010 Mazda5 GT. I have always described it as kind of a mini-minivan. It has sliding side doors, a higher roof profile and a third row of seats. It first hit the market back in 2006 and since people that own them, love them, very little has changed on it. Full story...

Privateer Sunred will become a semi-works Seat team in the 2010 WTCC series. The team will receive technical support of the Spanish car manufacturer, and may run a Seat Leon Tdi for reigning WTCC champion Gabriele Tarquini. Full story...

The Lotus Elise revolutionised the sportscar market 14 years ago when the small lightweight agile 2-seat mid engine sportscar was introduced. By ensuring that the Elise stuck rigidly to Lotus' core values of performance through light weight, the Elise was able to produce supercar performance with city car economy. Full story...

USF1's only confirmed driver Jose Maria Lopez has singled out fellow rookie Adrian Valles as an ideal teammate. Full story...

Felipe Massa has expressed surprise that his former Sauber teammate Nick Heidfeld has been left without a race seat in 2010. Full story...

The Explorer Sport Trac continues to play the half SUV/half pickup card, with a front and rear seating section like the regular Explorer, but with a small truck bed (just over 4 feet). The available hard tonneau cover is lockable and weatherproof. Full story...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the world's best-selling two-seater roadster going on sale in the UK, Mazda is introducing a special version of the legendary Mazda MX-5 sportscar called, appropriately, the 'Mazda MX-5 20th Anniversary Limited Edition'. Full story...

Red Bull figures on Wednesday said they were flattered that so many rival cars now resemble the Milton Keynes-designed single seater. After the RB5 finished the 2009 season as the dominant car, many new contenders have hit the test tracks this winter resembling features of the Red Bull. Full story...