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Audi Q7 facelift (2009): first official photos

By Tim Pollard First Official Pictures 14 April 2009 23:01 It’s definitely mid-life facelift time of year. In the past few days we’ve brought you the revised Land Rover Discovery, Range Rover, Range Sport and Merc S-class – today it’s the turn of the latest Audi Q7, finessed and fettled for the 2010 model year. Audi’s lumbering SUV has been out for three years now, so it’s time for Ingolstadt’s facelifters to work their makeover magic.

Driven: Volkswagen Passat CC GT

Elegant and refined. Forty years ago these two words would not have been used to describe the Beetles bought in droves by the counterculture in the US; a symbol of the hippy movement and the definitive people's car, designed at a time when Germany sought to put people in motion. With the Passat CC, however, Volkswagen is indeed making a sharp move away from the ‘volks wagen', and these two words rolled off the tongues of those who saw the car in all three countries we drove through on our winter holiday.

Jaguar/Land Rover Virtual Reality Center

Jaguar Land Rover has opened a new 'Virtual Reality Center' at the Design and Engineering Center in Gaydon, UK. The 'state-of-the-art' design facility draws on advanced audio visual technologies with the projection power of the world's highest resolution projectors to significantly speed up product development cycles following an investment of £2 million. The new Virtual Reality Center allows engineers and designers to see and interact with life-size, three-dimensional models of vehicles and components, reducing the need for physical prototypes.