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Citroen at the London motor show 2008

A modded Citroen C-Crosser wasn't enough to keep us awake on the Citroen stand By Ben Whitworth and CAR reader reporter Carcare Motor Shows 23 July 2008 15:49 A quiet show for Citroen, to be honest... What’s new on Citroen’s London motor show stand?Not a great deal at all, sadly. There’s the UK debut of the C-Cactus concept car – which we originally saw at the 2007 Frankfurt motor show.

Audi RS5 TDI Concept gets electric turbo and 380bhp

The Audi RS5 TDI Concept (pictured) gets an electric turbo It’s two years since Audi revealed it was working on an electric turbo to be used in a twin-turbo setup, with the electric turbo able to offer boost pressure from much lower down the rev range than a normal turbo. That has turned in to the Audi RS5 TDI Concept, where Audi has replaced the normal RS5‘s V8 with a 3.0 litre TDI engine with a small electric turbo for low rev work and a bigger turbo to do the higher rev stuff. The electric turbo works from the off to provide maximum torque of 553lb/ft from just 1250rpm, before the bigger normal turbo takes over at 3,000rpm to continue the boost.

The fall and rise of the budget car

Twenty years ago, the classic bargain brands like Lada seemed to be going the same way as the Soviet empire that spawned them. Woefully dated and badly made, only a weirdo would have bought a new Lada rather than a second-hand model from Ford, Vauxhall or VW. However, one of the big trends in the car industry today is the re-emergence of bargain cars.