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Subaru XV and Coupe 'to double UK sales'

Subaru will launch a trio of new models in the next year to shore up flagging UK sales. The new XV and new sports car will expand the UK Subaru range by 50% and put the malnourished brand back on the map, the UK's managing director told CAR. The new Subaru XV is a Nissan Qashqai rival and will change little from the concept car shown at the 2011 Shanghai auto show.

Saab on the road to independence

You’ve got to feel for Scandinavian car makers Saab and Volvo. Both swallowed up by big US car makers, and both now being abandoned in a vulnerable position after years of integrating their once independent products in to their parents infrastructure, they must wake up every day wondering if this is the day it all goes bang. Ford is simply trying (increasingly desperately) to off-load Volvo, but GM, which is in a much more precarious position than Ford, has now abandoned its Swedish child in a desperate attempt to appease Congress and survive.

Lamborghini Estoque at the Paris motor show 2008

By Ben Whitworth Motor Shows 02 October 2008 10:02 Lamborghini’s new Estoque is easily the star of the Paris motor show. Big, bold and irrepressibly Lamborghini, the Estoque should hit showrooms by 2011 with an anticipated £130k price tag to slug it out with the Porsche Panamera and Aston Martin Rapide. It’ll be quite a fight….