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29 January 20091HRH registration plate fetches £113000 at auction
The "royal" registration plate 1HRH has been sold at auction for £113000.
read moreNo stone unturned as dealers fight slump
The impact of the downturn on the US's 20,000 dealers was underlined by AutoNation, the biggest dealership chain, which reported a 34 per cent slide in fourth-quarter revenues
read more'Nearly all speed cameras in Britain illegal' court is told
Nearly all speed cameras in Britain are illegal following errors from every Home Secretary in the last 15 years a court has heard.
read moreFemale learner lorry driver crushes instructor to death while practising emergency stop
A female learner lorry driver crushed her driving instructor to death under her 18 ton lorry when she got her foot stuck on the accelerator pedal while trying an emergency stop an inquest heard.
read moreFord
The carmaker insists it can recover on its own, notwithstanding the fact that it reported a record annual loss. That may soon change
read moreCarmakers shouldn't expect aid confetti
A demand to extend the government credit guarantee to help carmakers' finance operations is a tough call
read morePass for Princess Eugenie
Although Mandrake takes the view that the best drivers always require several attempts to pass their test Princess Eugenie the 18yearold daughter of the Duke of York can now throw away the Lplates attached to her Nissan Figaro after sailing through her first practical.
read moreA new GT3? Yes please
Porsche gets ready to launch it's new GT3. Which we're happy about
read moreElectric cars: where's the catch?
Hot on the heels of the debut of the Vauxhall Ampera we talk to some of the key figures involved in its development about the future for electric vehicles.
read moreElectric cars: where's the catch?
Hot on the heels of the debut of the Vauxhall Ampera we talk to some of the key figures involved in its development about the future for electric vehicles.
read moreGM calls an end to 'jobs bank' scheme
General Motors said that it agreed with the United Auto Workers union to end a scheme that allowed union members to collect virtually full pay and benefits even when there was no work for them in the carmaker's assembly plants
read moreChery A6 spied with Lotus
This is the Chery A6 coupe, spied testing in the UK.
read moreChery A6 spied with Lotus
This is the Chery A6 coupe, spied testing in the UK.
read moreOfficial Pics: Aston Martin Rapide
These are the first official images of the Aston Martin Rapide super-saloon, released ahead of its launch this autumn.
read moreNew Aston Martin Rapide: official pics
These are the first official images of the Aston Martin Rapide super-saloon, released ahead of its launch this autumn.
read moreHonest John: automatic choice turbo troubles and flywheel failures
The dealer you can trust answers readers' queries about automatic transmission repair specialists niggly Nissan turbochargers and another possible dualmass flywheel failure on a diesel.
read moreMike Hawthorn tribute: photo gallery
The streets of Farnham Surrey reverberated to the sounds of a cavalcade of historic cars paying tribute to its son Mike Hawthorn Britain's first Formula One world champion.
read moreMike Hawthorn: book review
Read all about the life and times of Britain's first Formula One world champion.
read moreBritish Motor Show faces the axe
Could Britain's biannual Motor Show be the credit crunches next victim?
read moreFord reports $5.9bn loss
Ford Motor said that it burned through $5.5bn of cash in the fourth quarter of last year, and revealed that it planned to draw down more than $10 bn in credit lines because of "the instability of the capital markets" and an uncertain economy
read more911 GT3 - first pics
Harder and faster version of the 911 will debut at Geneva
read moreThe home of the best Geneva show news - Geneva Motor Show 2009
The home of the best Geneva show news.
read moreNew Porsche GT3 revealed
The hardest ever 911, the new Porsche 911 GT3, has been unveiled.
read moreNew Porsche GT3 revealed
The hardest ever 911, the new Porsche 911 GT3, has been unveiled.
read moreLifeline's 'green' nature highlighted
The "green" nature of the £2.5bn state lifeline for the car sector has been stressed repeatedly by ministers, writes Jean Eaglesham . Lord Mandelson...
read moreKing resisted access to funding
Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor, rebuffed a Lord Mandelson proposal to allow the finance arms of car manufacturers access to the "special liquidity scheme"...
read moreAutos crisis deepening, warns VW
Volkswagen yesterday confirmed the dire state of the car industry when Martin Winterkorn, chief executive of Europe's largest car company, estimated that global...
read moreGM calls an end to 'jobs bank' scheme
General Motors said yesterday that it had agreed with the United Auto Workers union to end a scheme that has allowed union members to collect virtually full pay and...
read moreMandelson urged to pay wage subsidy
Lord Mandelson faced de-mands from car manufacturers and unions for the taxpayer to pay a Dutch-style "wage subsidy" to reduce job losses in the beleaguered sector, at...
read moreRace to support motor industry raises fears of breaching state aid rules
As more governments step in to aid their sputtering carmakers, the race to support national champions is raising the alarm over the dangers of unfair trading or...
read moreJoining the bail-out
Japan can hardly be blamed for reaching into its emergency toolkit and pulling out the wrench marked "industrial bail-out". After all, everybody else is at it. Tokyo...
read moreItaly's car workers protest at aid plan
Italy's trade union leaders and car workers yesterday protested against what they fear will be insufficient state aid for their automotive industry compared with loans...
read moreGKN puts cash aside to pay for job cuts
GKN has set aside £120m to pay for the costs this year of short-time working, plant shut-downs and redundancies, as the engineering group announced the loss of...
read moreSpeeding fines and prosecutions increase sevenfold in 10 years
The number of speeding fines and prosecutions has increase sevenfold in 10 years while the number of speed cameras has risen by more than 3000 according to the latest Freedom of Information figures.
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