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Porsche makes £14k on every car it sells, Bentley makes £12.7k

Porsche made £14k on every car sold in 2013 If you need an illustration of how much more profitable high-end sports and luxury cars are than mainstream cars, VW Groups sales figures demonstrate it perfectly. At the extreme ends of the profit per car spectrum, Porsche made an enviable £13,931 for every car it sold in 2013 and VW made just £615 (although SEAT actually lost £330 on every car it sold) . In fact, although you might expect the higher-priced Bentley range to make more per car than a Porsche, Bentley only managed a creditable second place on VW Group’s profit per car table, turning in £12,700 profit for every car it turned out (11,000 of them in 2013).

BMW unveils self-drifting car in Las Vegas

BMW is using the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to showcase the latest technology to fall under its ConnectedDrive banner. It’s called ActiveAssist and BMW is hoping it will draw a line under road accidents in the future. But that’s not what’s grabbing the headlines in Vegas.

2009 Audi S5 / A5 Cabriolet Revealed

It’s arguably not the best time to announce a range of stylish, quality convertibles. No one’s buying anything, and winter is here. But that hasn’t stopped Audi, who today revealed details of the S5 and A5 Convertibles.