Sporty new Fiat 500 Streets ahead on style and equipment

The highly successful Fiat 500 range is enhanced even further with the launch of a sporty and lavishly equipped new version, the 500 Street.

Aimed at sports-minded customers who want all the style, economy and comfort of the popular Fiat 500 city car but with a striking

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Rocket Ship Superalloy Technology aids Ford Fusion 2.0-litre turbo durability

Enthusiasts will say the all-new Ford Fusion equipped with the 2.0-litre EcoBoost turbo engine is a rocket ship. Fusion engineers will tell you parts of its engine depend on technology from one.

To prolong turbo life and combat thermal fatigue, powertrain engineers

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Volkswagen delivers more cars in period to July/+10.4 per cent

The Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand handed over 3.26- (January-July 2011: 2.95; +10.4 per cent) million vehicles to customers worldwide from January to July. The brand recorded an increase of 11.9 per cent to 468,300 (July 2011: 418,600) units for

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Ford launches Drive 4 UR Community Program to raise funding for local non-profit organisations

Ford Motor Company and its dealers have launched a new program called Drive 4 UR Community, which is designed to help raise much needed funding for local community groups and non-profit organisations.

Drive 4 UR Community is very similar in concept to Ford's

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POD Point offers free home charging points to electric and hybrid car owners

POD Point, the UK's leading electric vehicle charging company is offering free home charging units to electric and hybrid vehicle owners in East Anglia, the East and West Midlands.

The POD Point charge point is the Solo 2, the latest 'smart' communicating charge

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TNT takes delivery of ten Volkswagen Crafter conversions

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has agreed a trial with the UK's leading business-to-business express operator, TNT Express, for ten of its Crafter single chassis cabs with a box van conversion.

TNT delivers up to 150-million items per annum and has the largest

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TomTom updates Navigation app for iPhone and iPad

TomTom launches a new version (v1.11) of its Navigation app for iPhone and iPad. Customers with an older version of the app can download it for free. They’ll then be able to navigate to addresses found on the internet, search with foursquare*, and

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Mazda MX-5 GT4 now on sale; But you can't take it on the road

Following the success of the Mazda MX-5 GT4 race car in the Avon Tyres British GT Championship, Mazda UK and Jota Sport will be building customer MX-5 GT4 race cars to order for the 2013 season.

Mazda UK entered the Avon Tyres British GT Championship this

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Zipcar and the City of Houston launch first-of-its-kind municipal electric vehicle car sharing program

Zipcar, Inc. announced a new partnership with the City of Houston to launch a municipal electric vehicle (EV) fleet sharing program, called Houston Fleet Share. Through this program, 50 existing city-owned fleet vehicles – including 25 Nissan Leaf EVs – will be outfitted

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Mercedes-Benz supports research fleet for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Model Deployment

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. (MBRDNA) is supporting the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Model Deployment. This activity, officially launched on August 21, 2012 in Ann Arbor, Michigan,

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Nationally recognised Consumer Advocate David Champion to join Nissan

Nissan, which currently is launching five new vehicles in 15 months, announced the hiring of former Consumer Reports Auto Test Center Senior Director, David Champion, for the newly created position of executive adviser, competitive assessment and

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