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29 May 2015
Project Avocet returns
The Avocet sportscar programme, including designs, datapack, production and intellectual property rights, is to be marketed for sale internationally as a now fully developed market...
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28 May 2015
UK car production surpasses 500,000 in April.
New figures released today show the UK surpassed the 500,000 milestone for car production this April, with 530,505 new cars built so far this year.
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20 May 2015
Morgan and AR Motorsport complete first customer ARV6
The latest addition to the AR Motorsport Challenge Series was introduced last Friday as the race team at Pickerlsiegh Road completed the first customer ARV6. The completion of the...
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20 May 2015
Jaguar XE wins Best New Car at Fleet World Awards
The Jaguar XE has been named the Best New Car of 2015 in the Fleet World Awards. It marks a triumphant few weeks for the new sports saloon after it won Best Large Car at the Diesel...
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14 May 2015
Lotus Brand Centre opens in Piccadilly
The newly refitted Lotus Brand Centre in Piccadilly, London, introduces an opportunity to learn more about Lotus and get closer to the company’s pure and lightweight sports cars in...
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12 May 2015
Jag XE crowned best large diesel car
The Jaguar XE has been named Best Large Car in the 2015 Diesel Car Magazine Awards, beating tough competition from the likes of the BMW 3 Series and Ford Mondeo.
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5 May 2015
Vauxhall's Brit-built Vivaro finds a new home
Vauxhall has supplied Anglian Home Improvements, the UK’s leading home improvements company, with a fleet of 29 new Vivaros. The latest model, which was launched last summer, will...
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5 May 2015
Afzal Kahn's new Vengeance coupe revealed in first design sketch
Following the success of his Flying Huntsman 6x6 concept at the Geneva Motor Show in March, featured recently on BBC1 in the One Show, British designer Afzal Kahn has announced ano...
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27 April 2015
New Ingenium diesel engine for Disco Sport
Land Rover has announced its innovative Ingenium diesel engine will be introduced to the Discovery Sport. Following its highly successful launch in September 2014, the premium comp...
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23 April 2015
British car productivity hits all time high
SMMT figures released today show that the strong British car market drove domestic production up 1.9% in March with 144,893 cars built – the best March since 2006. Manufacturing ou...
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23 April 2015
Rolls-Royce announce new Limelight Bespoke Phantom Collection
British engineering ingenuity and artistic creativity have proven to be the inspiration behind the naming and creation of the latest Bespoke Phantom Collection to emerge from the H...
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22 April 2015
Jaguar shines in 2015 Driver Power ownership survey
Jaguar has scored an impressive set of results in this year’s Auto Express Driver Power customer satisfaction survey with an executive car category win, second and third place in t...
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