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Mercedes News Coming Sunday

We can’t tip our hand, but we have major Mercedes news coming on Sunday. Come back to autoweek.com just after the stroke of midnight for pictures and details. And then, come back to autoweek.com next week, when we’ll have even more details and in-depth analysis and more infomation in our TV show, News Brake.

Jaguar to build R8 rival

[ad#ad-1] Jaguar has its problems, there is no doubt. Tata is struggling financially with its recently acquired Jaguar / Land Rover set-up, but then virtually every car maker has major problems at the moment. And yes, it has just laid off 450 staff, although this seems to be more about management rationalisation than shedding pure manufacturing jobs.

Designer Interviews: Giorgetto Giugiaro

Ask any aficionado who the greatest car designer of all time is and Giorgetto Giugiaro will be the name on most lips. Responsible for more than 200 vehicles, equating to some 60-million production cars on the road as well as dozens of concepts for the world's finest car brands – not to mention cameras for Nikon, electronic organs for Bontempi and even a type of pasta – he is without equal. Born on 7 August 1938 in Garessio, northern Italy, he started his career with Fiat in the mid-1950s, aged 17.