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Radical new group-based car insurance scheme

REX Innovation and car insurance aren’t entirely strange bedfellows. After all, the concept of ‘black box’ insurance that uses a device to monitor you as you drive has taken off so fast it could well become mandatory in the future. But it’s still unusual to come across something truly revolutionary.

2012 SEAT Exeo & Exeo ST Estate arrive in UK showrooms

The 2012 SEAT Exeo & Exeo Estate arrive in UK showrooms The 2012 SEAT Exeo saloon and Exeo ST Estate have had a small facelift – which debuted at Frankfurt – and have now arrived in SEAT UK showrooms. It’s hard to get too excited about the facelift for the 2012 SEAT Exeo – or even call it a facelift – so small are the changes. But changes there have been and SEAT are now filling up their showrooms with the 2012 version of the Exeo – basically a last generation Audi A4 – ready for punters who must have the latest model.

MG 3 arrives in the UK next month – price from £8399

All the UK models of the new MG 3 (pictured) will cost under £10k MG revealed the UK MG 3 back in June as their design centre in Birmingham, and it’s not a terrible looking thing – at least from some angle. But whether the relatively low tech and the implication that this is the rebirth of MG Motors will be enough to persuade UK buyers in remains in doubt. What will help is a relatively modest entry point, and the MG3 is starting at £8,399 when it goes on sale in the UK in September.