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Mercedes proves E-Class hybrid tech with unusual test

IN AN impressive display of performance and economy, Mercedes-Benz has completed a lengthy test of its new E300 Bluetech Hybrid saloon by driving it almost the length of the country on a single tank of fuel with a flat-out speed test at either end. With ex-rally driver Mick Linford at the wheel the standard production E300 Bluetech Hybrid began with a full tank of fuel at Newquay Cornwall Airport, the most southerly airport in mainland Britain. Down the main runway it completed an acceleration test to past 62mph from rest in a little over seven seconds and reached 136mph before braking for the end of the runway.

Victoria Beckham Range Rover Evoque costs £80k

Range Rover Evoque Victoria Beckham - now it's official Land Rover has revealed the Range Rover Evoque with Victoria Beckham in Beijing and announced it will cost £79,995. We revealed the Victoria Beckham Range Rover Evoque yesterday, and Land Rover has now caught up and done the same in Beijing. There isn’t much we didn’t report yesterday on the Evoque Land Rover hope will mop up business from customisers like Kahn and Revere, but what we didn’t know yesterday was how much the Beckham Evoque would cost, but now we do.

Ford Shelby GT500 Cobra with 850hp pays tribute to Carroll Shelby

‘Friends of Carroll Shelby’ pay tribute to the man with an 850hp Ford Shelby GT500 Cobra, finished in Guardsman Blue/Wimbledon White stripe paint. Carroll Shelby – an man who understood performance cars perhaps better than any other American – died in May of this year, aged 89, after a life lived to the full. As a fitting tribute to the man who gave Ford the sort of performance cars they could never have dreamt of building, a very special Ford Shelby GT500 Cobra has been built to remember him by ‘The Friends of Carroll Shelby’.