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• Adrian Newey is a bargain for Aston Martin, claims Stroll

  11-09-2024 09:38 via uk.motor1.com
  
  Aston Martin has explained Adrain Newey's role after he was confirmed as becoming a shareholder and overall technical leader
  
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• Volkswagen Tera: New small car SUV for South America

  09-11-2024 10:30 via uk.motor1.com
  
  The crossover, previously known as the A0 SUV, is due to go on sale there in 2025
  
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• Nissan cuts 9,000 jobs and sells Mitsubishi shares

  09-11-2024 10:14 via uk.motor1.com
  
  The Japanese company's CEO, Makoto Uchida, has announced staff cuts in response to the fall in sales in the last quarter.
  
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• How efficient are Mini Countryman, Jeep Avenger and Mercedes GLC

  09-11-2024 09:55 via uk.motor1.com
  
  Green NCAP also examined the Skoda Karoq, Honda Civic and Subaru Crosstrek
  
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• Forgotten prototypes: Venus Bilo, Volvo's first concept car

  09-11-2024 09:29 via uk.motor1.com
  
  The Scandinavian brand's first prototype was launched in 1933. It gave rise to the PV 36 Carioca.
  
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• What is behind Hamilton’s “devastating” F1 struggles

  09-11-2024 09:12 via uk.motor1.com
  
  Lewis Hamilton described his Formula 1 car in Brazil as the “worst” it has been all year. What has gone wrong?
  
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• When multi-million pound classics get mistaken for kit cars

  09-11-2024 09:01 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Can the average person spot an original from a replica, asks PriorIn a car park sits the oldest Porsche in the UK, just the 32nd ever made, worth the best part of £2.7 million. It’s a creamy yellow 356, from 1950, back when Porsches were still made in Gmünd, Austria.
  It has a brilliantly detailed history, has never been restored, would make a terrific bookend to a billionaire’s expansive Porsche collection and could easily be entered into those concours events where they v
  
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• Bentley remembers D-Day with a special Bentayga

  09-11-2024 08:53 via uk.motor1.com
  
  The Remembrance Car will embark on a journey across the UK to celebrate 80 years since D-Day
  
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• BP is selling hundreds of petrol stations as electric cars advance

  09-11-2024 08:42 via uk.motor1.com
  
  With sales approaching 50% of the market, the major oil company is abandoning 310 distributors in the Netherlands that are no longer profitable. And it's not the only one.
  
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• In the UK, Chinese cars have overtaken Fiat

  09-11-2024 08:03 via uk.motor1.com
  
  Omoda and BYD both outsold the Italian brand in October.
  
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• Bentley CEO: This is what our first electric car will look like

  09-11-2024 08:02 via uk.motor1.com
  
  The luxury manufacturer confirms the debut of an "Urban SUV" in 2026 and gives first insights
  
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• 'Unsustainable' run of damage leaves Williams uncertain of car spec for Vegas

  09-11-2024 08:01 via uk.motor1.com
  
  Williams is evaluating its spares situation after series of crashes has left it short after the Brazilian GP
  
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• Range Rover, Qashqai, Mini... The motoring greats Britain builds

  09-11-2024 08:01 via autocar.co.uk
  
  These five home-made heroes show why the UK remains a key volume car makerIt’s all bad news these days, isn’t it? Or it certainly feels like it if you dare to pay attention to global politics. Step away from the doom-mongering, though and you’ll find good news aplenty when it comes to UK automotive manufacturing.
  And much of that hinges on the eclectic crew of cars assembled here.
  These cars play a key role in the success of the UK automotive industry – an industry t
  
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• Sleek new Range Rover Velar EV due to launch in spring 2026

  08-11-2024 13:49 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Autocar understands this JLR test car is a prototype of the next Velar
  JLR has confirmed plans to launch the first EMA-based electric Land Rover model in around 18 months' timeLand Rover will launch the first electric SUV based atop its new EMA platform in spring 2026 - and it's expected to be the replacement for the Range Rover Velar. 
  The marque's first EV will be the Range Rover Electric due next year. That flagship model – and the Range Rover Sport Electric due shortly a
  
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• Jaguar F-Pace to be axed globally in 2026

  08-11-2024 13:41 via autocar.co.uk
  
  F-Pace can now be bought only from dealer stock in the UK
  SUV was pulled from the UK market last month but will survive elsewhere until first quarter of 2026The Jaguar F-Pace will be axed globally in early 2026, JLR CEO Adrian Mardell has confirmed, after it was pulled from sale in the UK.
  Jaguar no longer sells any new cars in its home market and won’t until its all-new four-door electric GT arrives in summer 2026.
  “We've reviewed all of the Jaguar nameplates,” said
  
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• Dacia's new compact could look like this

  08-11-2024 13:00 via uk.motor1.com
  
  Positioned between the Duster and the Bigster, the C-segment Dacia could arrive as early as 2025, with prices starting from £21,000.
  
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• Jaguar to enter new era with concept car debut on 2 December

  08-11-2024 12:56 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Radical Jaguar concept – here imagined by Autocar's artist – is just weeks away
  “Next stage in Jaguar’s transformation” is confirmed for debut during Miami Art WeekJaguar is set to enter its next era with the unveiling of a new concept car previewing its long-awaited electric GT on 2 December.
  Autocar previously reported that the radical concept is due next month, and the brand has now said that the “next stage in Jaguar’s transf
  
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• Europe's automotive crisis has a domino effect on suppliers

  08-11-2024 09:49 via uk.motor1.com
  
  Schaeffler is to make 4,700 people redundant. Michelin and other companies are planning staff cuts
  
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• In China there is a record-breaking plug-in hybrid that does 1,367 miles

  08-11-2024 09:27 via uk.motor1.com
  
  The Roewe brand owned by Saic Motor was awarded the Guinness World Record for the distance travelled without refuelling
  
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• This is why the electric Suzuki Jimny will not happen

  08-11-2024 09:04 via uk.motor1.com
  
  Toshihiro Suzuki thinks the weight of the battery pack and electric motors would 'ruin' one of the Jimny's main features
  
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• Analogue Automotive Supersport

  08-11-2024 09:01 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Lotus Elise S1 owners with a spare six figures are offered the most stratospheric restomod makeover you can think ofYou can understand why it happens. You’ve been developing an extra-special, old-car-made-new restomod sports car, resplendent with engine and suspension componentry exotic enough to salivate over. Countless workshop man hours will be poured into the painstaking renovation of every example.And then, one day, you realise what you’re going to have to charge for it. The va
  
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• Mercedes-AMG plans independent electric SUV

  08-11-2024 08:54 via uk.motor1.com
  
  The basis is the AMG.EA high-performance electric platform
  
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• VW Tayron (2025): The interior in detail

  08-11-2024 08:33 via uk.motor1.com
  
  The seven-seater SUV from Wolfsburg is packed with technology and also has plenty of space
  
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• New Nissan Interstar arrives in UK with diesel and electric power

  08-11-2024 08:23 via uk.motor1.com
  
  Pre-orders begin at a starting price of £32,390 (before VAT).
  
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• McLaren: F1’s aborted-start rule "a little confusing" amid Norris fine

  08-11-2024 08:07 via uk.motor1.com
  
  With Lando Norris fined for a start procedure rule breach in Brazil, McLaren thinks that the regulations could be made clearer.
  
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• First customer Bentley Speed Six in 90 years is ready for delivery

  08-11-2024 08:05 via uk.motor1.com
  
  It is built in the UK and will be delivered to its new owner in the United States.
  
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• The charity helping war veterans to build careers in motorsport

  08-11-2024 08:01 via autocar.co.uk
  
  We visit Mission Motorsport as it looks to give a Subaru BRZ a new life, as well as its beneficiariesIn a workshop in deepest Oxfordshire, a Subaru BRZ is being restored to life.
  It’s a write-off – a Category N, which means it has sustained non-structural damage and can be repaired and returned to the road. So far, so ordinary, except the people putting this Subaru back on the road are veterans of the armed services with the scars – some physical, some mental – to prove i
  
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• Aston Martin Vantage AMV24 Edition: Even more special V8 announced

  08-11-2024 08:01 via uk.motor1.com
  
  Created to celebrate victory in the 2024 Spa 24 Hours, 24 examples will be produced with specific characteristics.
  
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• It's a "pivotal" time for future-looking Ford says Europe boss Lisa Brankin

  08-11-2024 01:01 via autocar.co.uk
  
  It has been a turbulent few years for the Blue Oval, but the brand is finally profitable in the UKLisa Brankin took the top job at Ford of Britain in late 2020 just as the brand was about to execute plans to willingly give up a market-leading volume position for its car business in pursuit of the profitability that had always eluded it.
  While Brankin’s observation that “timing is everything, and I think probably my timing isn't as good as it could have been…” was said la
  
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• Official: Rotary Mazda sports car is planned for production

  07-11-2024 23:44 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Rotary-electric powertrain is said to enable a classic sports coupé shape
  Mazda plans to build 370bhp, rotary-electric MX-5 successor "in the not so distant future"Mazda has confirmed plans to put its striking Iconic SP rotary-powered sports car concept into production in the near future.
  Revealed at last year’s Tokyo motor show, the Iconic SP is a tightly packaged, 370bhp vision of a future sports car in the vein of the MX-5, equipped with an innovative hybrid powertrain that uses
  
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