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Cautious welcome for fuel duty freeze

MOTORING groups have given a cautious welcome to Chancellor George Osborne's announcement of a freeze on fuel duty until May 2015. Both the AA and the RAC pointed out that Mr Osborne was already getting big sums from motorists in taxation. Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said: "Transport is the single biggest area of household expenditure bar none and our own research shows that 800,000 of the poorest households are in transport poverty, spending a quarter or more of their income on running a car.

Pagani Zonda Cinque Roadster at Geneva 2010

Pagani are taking Zonda Cinque Roadster #4 to Geneva Most of the stories we’ve had recently on Pagani have been on the Pagani C9, which will be revealed in September once Horacio Pagani has decided what to call it. But we’d have a small bet on the Pagani Fangio. But we mustn’t forget the the Pagani Zonda is still with us and that the latest iteration of that is the Pagani Zonda Cinque Roadster.

Listen: Upcoming Ford Focus ST to employ sound symposer

While BMW employs a digitally sanitized/perfected sound file to give M5 owners the proper sense of aggro urgency when motoring at pace, Porsche went a little more organic with its employment of a sound symposer to feed the 911's flat-six growl into the cabin of the extra-refined 991. Essentially, the sound symposer is an electrically controlled diaphragm in a tuned sound tube that brings the proper engine noises into the passenger compartment. It can be opened and closed by the car's onboard electronics to offer snarl when you want it and serenity when you don't.