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Road-pricing petition closes

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Jack Carfrae, 12 October 2007 11:20

The UK’s controversial debate over pay-as-you-drive road tolls reaches a milestone today with the closure of a popular online protest. Nearly 1.7 million aggrieved motorists have signed the petition since it was launched by Downing Street last November – firmly rejecting Government plans to charge drivers up to £1.34 a mile at peak times.The petition, which closes at midnight on ...

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Road-pricing petition closes

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Jack Carfrae, 12 October 2007 11:20

The UK’s controversial debate over pay-as-you-drive road tolls reaches a milestone today with the closure of a popular online protest. Nearly 1.7 million aggrieved motorists have signed the petition since it was launched by Downing Street last November – firmly rejecting Government plans to charge drivers up to £1.34 a mile at peak times.The petition, which closes at midnight on ...

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Mercedes C63 AMG

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Jack Carfrae, 04 July 2007 12:54

Mercedes C63 AMG: the lowdown Mercedes has a penchant for extremely powerful saloons and sports cars, in case you hadn't noticed. We've been inundated with the likes of the CL65 AMG, the CLK Black AMG and the McMerc SLR Roadster. Not content with these tyre-shredding giants, Mercedes has now shown the C63 AMG just 48 hours before the launch of ...

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Toyota Verso

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Jack Carfrae, 03 July 2007 10:47

A new Toyota Verso? It looks just like the old one! Yes, it does. Honestly, the lengths manufacturers go to persuade us - and you - that a facelift is important! All-new! Ground-breaking! Nope, the Verso's latest revisions bring none of those things. They do bring more angular front and rear light clusters, plus a revised nose with a tweaked ...

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Volkswagen Tiguan unmasked

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Jack Carfrae, 29 June 2007 02:47

Volkswagen Tiguan. We’ve seen this before, haven’t we? We have indeed. The Tiguan was first shown as a concept at the Los Angeles show in November, and it’s now primed and ready for production. CAR Online first spotted VW’s baby SUV, coated in black disguise, hot weather testing back in August. Volkswagen also released ‘official’ spy pictures of the car ...

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Mitsubishi Lancer

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Jack Carfrae, 27 June 2007 11:43

Mitsubishi Lancer: the lowdown With all the recent attention focused on Mitsubishi’s hot shot Evo X, its donor car, the Lancer, has been a bit neglected. Until now. A far cry from the unbreakable but unlovable stock Lancers that went before it, Mitsubishi’s new Jetta basher mixes sleek lines with four-square attitude and a healthy dollop of value for money. ...

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Toyota's hybrid sales top one million

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Jack Carfrae, 08 June 2007 12:16

Toyota, and its luxury arm Lexus, have notched up more than a million hybrid sales for the first time. First launched in Japan in 1997, the Prius has racked-up 758,000 sales internationally, 13,826 of them in the UK. And a third of the 1,047,000 hybrids built by Toyota found homes in its domestic Japanese market. The company claims its hybrids ...

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Volkswagen Tiguan

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Jack Carfrae, 06 June 2007 11:51

Volkswagen Tiguan: the lowdown Here’s an unusual scoop – officially sanctioned photos of VW’s Tiguan hot-weather testing in Namibia. It’s still in pre-production form, but these shots reveal the finished look aside from the fake grille to fool ‘real’ spy photographers. The Tiguan has changed little since it was unveiled in concept form at the Los Angeles show last November ...

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Caterham Seven X330

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Jack Carfrae, 06 June 2007 02:25

Caterham Seven X330: yet another track-day weapon? More of a track-day god. This is the most powerful Seven ever, packing a supercharger and 330bhp in a car that weighs next to nothing. That makes for a mammoth 600bhp-per-tonne and places the X330 firmly in front of the Bugatti Veyron in the power-to-weight stakes. Don’t start dribbling just yet though, as ...

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Seat Altea Freetrack

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Jack Carfrae, 22 May 2007 10:19

Seat Altea Freetrack: the lowdown Seat has given the Altea some wellington boots to join the burgeoning ranks of wannabe soft-roader 4x4s. First seen in concept guise at the Geneva Motor Show back in March, the Altea Freetrack is Seat's first-ever attempt at an off-roader. However, an extra 40mm of ground clearance, some chunky tyres and aesthetically challenging grey cladding ...

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Ferrari police car lands in UK

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Jack Carfrae, 26 April 2007 01:31

A Ferrari police car? That's just ridiculous! Yep, it sure is. Don't rub your eyes or pinch yourself, that really is a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti in police livery. A somewhat scarier view in your rear-view mirror than a Vauxhall Vectra, we think you'll agree. Thankfully, 540bhp supercars are far from the future for the British Police - this is strictly ...

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