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Gordon Murray, the McLaren F1’s designer, knighted for “services to Motoring”
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Gordon Murray, the McLaren F1’s designer, knighted for “services to Motoring”

Automotive designer and engineer Professor Gordon Murray can now add a "Sir" to the start of his name, having been made a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in the Queen's New Year Honours 2019. The designer of cars like the McLaren F1 and the legend...
Skoda Kodiaq wins Best Ergonomics at ST Car of the Year
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Skoda Kodiaq wins Best Ergonomics at ST Car of the Year

The Czech sport utility vehicle wins in the ergonomics department. This means you are seated most comfortably behind the wheel, with controls laid out logically in front of you - all within easy reach and operating intuitively. Clever packaging frees up precio...
Top 10 tips we wish learner drivers would, well, learn
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Top 10 tips we wish learner drivers would, well, learn

Don't you wish learner drivers could be paradigms of perfection when they roll out of the testing centre? In the real world, that's never the case: we make mistakes and neglect basic road manners when behind the wheel, even after passing our test with flyin...
Sole surviving BMW 1600 GT convertible gets restored
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Sole surviving BMW 1600 GT convertible gets restored

A vocational training team at the Dingolfing BMW plant has restored the only surviving example of the BMW 1600 GT convertible in a multi-year project. The silver four-seater marks BMW's transition from a niche automaker to a mass-production car manufacturer...
Singapore electric motorcycle manufacturer gets $2m in seed capital
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Singapore electric motorcycle manufacturer gets $2m in seed capital

Development of Singapore's first electric motorcycle has been given a $2 million injection, with more money to follow. Once "certain milestones" are reached, manufacturer EuroSports Technologies (EST) has been promised another $3 million by parent firm ...
Leaked: Rear of 2020 Toyota Supra
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Leaked: Rear of 2020 Toyota Supra

We have dreamt of seeing the 2020 Toyota Supra in its final form, and the folks at the SupraMKV forum have delivered. A lucky someone has snapped the (partially uncovered) rear of the new Supra, which looks very close to the prototype Toyota FT-1, off which...