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Audi Q7 facelift (2009): first official photos

By Tim Pollard First Official Pictures 14 April 2009 23:01 It’s definitely mid-life facelift time of year. In the past few days we’ve brought you the revised Land Rover Discovery, Range Rover, Range Sport and Merc S-class – today it’s the turn of the latest Audi Q7, finessed and fettled for the 2010 model year. Audi’s lumbering SUV has been out for three years now, so it’s time for Ingolstadt’s facelifters to work their makeover magic.

Bentley Arnage replacement to take on Rolls Royce

Bentley's replacement for the Arnage in 2010 will go upmarket to compete with the Rolls Royce Phantom Bentley has revealed that after Arnage production finally ends in September it will be a full year before the replacement for the Arnage surfaces. Now the sceptics amongst us may put this down to the fact that Bentley are struggling to sell the cars they already make in the current climate, never mind producing an even more luxurious and expensive model. But Bentley say it’s so they can put a clear line under the current Arnage before its replacement arrives late in 2010.

Smart car inventor Nicolas Hayek dies

Nicolas Hayek, the engineer and industrialist who founded the Swiss watch company Swatch and brought the world the Smart car, died on June 28 of heart failure at his office in Switzerland. He was 82. Hayek saved the Swiss watch industry from lower-priced Asian competition in the early 1980s by offering colorful, inexpensive Swatch timepieces that he backed with equally colorful marketing.