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MOT test gets tougher for diesels

THE MOT TEST for cars with diesel engines is set to become much tougher from February 2014 due to new rules about exhaust filters. Diesel-engined cars fitted with an exhaust filter as standard when new will now be checked to make sure it is still present. Any car found to have had the filter removed will be automatically failed and required to have a new filter fitted.

EV charging points 'to top 100,000 by 2020'

THERE will be more than 10 times the number of electric car charging points as petrol stations by 2020 – and that’s just one of the planned networks. According to POD Point CEO Erik Fairbairn, the conditions are beginning to emerge to allow electric and plug-in hybrid cars to flourish, leading to an explosion in charge point installations in the coming years that could top 100,000 just in POD Point’s own infrastructure. There are currently fewer than 9,000 petrol stations on British roads.

Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake spy video

The new Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake caught on video The Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake – the CLS Estate – is close to production reveal, and we have video of the CLS Estate out testing. The car world thought Mercedes had gone mad when it launched the CLS to a world that thought a four-door coupe a niche too far. But Mercedes were right, and the E-Class based CLS when on to be a strong seller.