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Renault buys Caterham out of the joint Alpine sports car venture

Renault buys Caterham out of the joint Alpine sports car venture It’s more than eighteen months since Renault and Caterham joined forces to create a new breed of sports cars around the Alpine brand. Renault say the arrangement is a mutual one and officially brings to an end the joint venture, and that the business will be renamed Société des Automobiles Alpine this month, although Renault aren’t excluding further ventures with Caterham in the future. The split means that the Alpine project will now be a purely Renault one, and Renault are planning to get their Alpine to market by 2016.

BMW plotting a hydrogen fuel cell EV

The BMW i3 EV (pictured) will eventually be joined by a hydrogen fuel cell BMW BMW has now taken its first fully-fledged step in to the electric car market with the BMW i3, revealed in full earlier this week. The i3 is a properly competent offering from BMW and it seems likely that, despite a price pushing on £30k even after the taxpayer bribe for EVs, that they will find a ready market in their affluent customer base for the i3 as a second (or third, or fourth…) car for local runarounds. BMW has even managed to negate range anxiety by offering the option of a range-extender engine in the i3 – basically a BMW motorcycle engine to charge the battery when it runs out of juice – so BMW’s customers who may wish to use their i3 for more than just a trip the shops can do so without getting stranded.

Win tickets to the 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed

The 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed is just around the corner, and CAR has teamed up with Johnnie Walker to give away two weekend tickets to this great British motoring event. Click here to enter our competition This year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed takes place from 2-4 July, and in conjunction with Johnnie Walker Black Label, proud sponsors of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1 team, CAR is offering two weekend tickets to attend the largest motoring garden party in the world. And the lucky winner will also receive a special collector’s item, the Centenary Limited Edition Johnnie Walker Black Label pack, embellished with real 23-carat gold. You can find out more about Johnnie Walker by visiting www.johnniewalker.com. Click here to enter our competition The 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed takes place from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 July, the theme is ‘Viva Velocé – a passion for speed’, and the featured marque is Alfa Romeo, which turns 100 this year.