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The Clarkson review: Kia Pro Cee'd GT Tech (2013)


PETER MANDELSON has been responsible for many important initiatives over the years. Though for the life of me I can’t actually recall off the top of my head what any of them were.
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Car clinic: Dealing with old tyres, retro-fitting automatic...


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LA show round-up: How La La land turned Motown


Its only major car maker is Tesla up the road near San Francisco but this week, California gave every impression of being at the heart of the world’s...
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Tokyo Motor Show: the weirdest cars


Every other year, the car industry travels to the Tokyo motor show in Japan, a country where a fish so poisonous that it kills diners every year is...
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Tokyo show: Volkswagen’s baby Up! gets plug-in hybrid...


VOLKSWAGEN HAS unveiled a version of its baby Up! city car capable of a super-miserly 256.8mpg.
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Tokyo show: Honda shows off Juke-rivalling Vezel SUV...


HONDA WILL be launching a major challenge to the best-selling Nissan Juke compact SUV in 2015 with this, the Urban SUV, or Vezel as it will be known...
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Tokyo show: the view from the show floor on press day


TEN YEARS ago, every major car manufacturer in the world would have been at the Tokyo motor show, but now the list of premier league no-shows is actually...
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LA/Tokyo motor shows: Mercedes says goodbye to SLS...


AS IF its gullwing doors weren’t statement enough, a special version of the outgoing Mercedes AMG SLS has been unveiled at the LA and Tokyo motor...
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Must numberplates be white at the front of the car and yellow at the rear?
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The Clarkson review: BMW 435i M Sport (2014)


WHEN I first moved to London, during the war — with Argentina, that is — Knightsbridge was a quite genteel place full of old ladies and...
Frank Stephenson interview, McLaren Automotive design director:

The man behind new Mini, Ferrari F430, Fiat 500 –...


Wiperless windscreens, colour changing cars and Nurburgring lap times: We talk to McLaren's design chief.
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Tokyo show: Nissan to launch 3E Google Glass-style...


Nissan has released a dramatic film previewing a glasses-type wearable device that could allow a driver to download information from the internet...