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Kia Sportage Scottish Car of the Year

The Kia SPortage - Car of the Year 2010 in Scotland. You'd never have guessed from the photo It sounds from all accounts as if it was a jolly day out north of the border for PRs from across the motoring industry, all travelling to the land of the long thistle for a spot of light refreshment and back-slapping. Car of the year as far as the Jocks are concerned is the Kia Sportage, the separated at birth twin of the Hyundai ix35.

12 reasons why we love Maserati: 100 years of the Trident

When Alfieri Maserati opened his first shop, three of his brothers joined immediately. Mario wasn’t a fan of engines, but he could draw. He based Maserati's famous Trident logo on the fountain of Neptune in Bologna’s Piazza Maggiore.

2013 Lamborghini Gallardo IS the last Gallardo (video)

Lamborghini has finally confirmed the Gallardo is now at the end of its life, with the 2013 Gallardo the ‘Final Gallardo’. But the Lamborghini Gallardo is anything but new as it’s been with us for a decade and, although still selling remarkably well, is well past its sell-by date. So we’d half expected that Paris may have seen the first sight of the Gallardo’s replacement rather than a mildly titivated version of the current car, but that now seems likely to happen at the Geneva Motor Show in 2013 after Lamborghini put up a website this week – The Final Gallardo – leaving us in no doubt the Gallardo’s time is up.