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Lotus prices Exige S Roadster from £52,900

Lotus has announced its new Exige S Roadster will be priced from £52,900 – exactly the same as the hard-top Exige S. It’s also slightly lighter than the fixed-head Exige, and matches its blistering acceleration times.  That £52,900 tag makes the 345bhp Exige S Roadster £7500 pricier than a (pre-options list) Porsche Boxster S manual, though the 1328kg Porsche makes do with only 315bhp.

£50,000 crystal-studded tin marks T-Cut milestone

AS TINS of polish go, this one is rather special. This is T-Cut’s 60th birthday present to itself and comes encrusted with tens of thousands of pounds worth of Swarovski crystals. T-Cut says 26,000 individual jewels make up the design, which took 75 hours of work for Shirley Sinclair of specialist designer Crystallized by Request to complete.

Ferrari World Abu Dhabi – the petrol-head theme park

The impressive structure of the Ferrari World Theme Park on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi Makers of super cars may be having something of a torrid time at the moment with the world saving instead of spending. But if you have an iconic brand there’s more than one way to skin a cat to bring in the revenue. Cue Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi which has now risen from the desert and well on the way to being finished for the grand opening in 2010.