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Elegant Venue Chosen To Host Equally Elegant And Rare Cars

FLUSHED with the success of its first two award-winning Concours of Elegance events in recent years, Thorough Events has announced grand plans for its 2014 spectacular. Following on from Windsor Castle and St James’s Palace, 2014 will see event in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace. The third international Concours of Elegance will take place on 5-7 September 2014, with the promise of 60 of the rarest cars from around the world - many of them never seen before in this country.

Audi develops new A2; plans for U.S. unclear

Audi is developing a reincarnation of the A2 small car that will slot between the A3 and the A1 minicar introduced in Geneva last week. "There's clearly room for another product and another concept between the A3 and A1," Audi CEO Rupert Stadler said on the sidelines of the Geneva auto show. Michael Dick, Audi's board member for technology, said in an interview that the company's push to add electric variants will play a role with the next-generation A2 "in the near future." The German media have reported that the A2 is expected by 2014.

Do Traffic Lights Hold The Key To Saving Fuel?

SUPERMARKET fuel price cuts may come and go, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to achieve longer lasting savings. German car maker Audi thinks it may have the answer, as it’s developed a system that ‘talks’ to traffic lights. The goal is to save fuel by alerting drivers to when lights change so they can slow down, plus prime a car’s engine stop-start system when a change from red to green is imminent.