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UK new car registrations up again in July

New car registrations in the UK have risen for the fifth month running, with a total of 143,884 new cars registered in July 2012. The UK is continuing to buck the European trend with new car registrations up by 9.3 per cent in July (2102) to 143,884 according to new figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). That figure is the largest sales volume of 2012 and is the fifth month in a row that new car registrations have risen, despite economic woes and the Eurozone crisis, and brings registrations in 2012 to 1,201,564 so far, leading the SMMT to increase their prediction for 2012 sales upwards to 1.97 million.

Cadillac CTS-V Coupé at Detroit motor show 2010

By Tim Pollard First Official Pictures 11 January 2010 04:02 It had to happen. GM found some spare change rattling around the back of the sofa and decided to put the Cadillac CTS-V Coupé into production. No prizes for guessing this car's format: it wraps the supercharged 556bhp 6.2-litre V8 with the sharpest set of clothes you'll see this side of Edward Scissorhands.That's a terrible joke.

One Lap of the Web: Ferrari sketches, attainable classics and a Brougham

-- A set of Ferrari sketches leaked online at jokeforblog.blogspot.it. It looks to be a hard-core, two-seater version of the shooting brake FF. The sketches were picked from the European Patent Register -- check them out.