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Nissan NV200: Nissan’s take on the London Taxi

Nissan is taking on the Black Cab market with the Nissan NV200 London Taxi, expected to go on sale in 2014 from around £30k. It may not be the biggest market in the car world, but the profile of the London Taxi makes it a worthwhile target for car makers. Mercedes recently took on the traditional Black Cab with their Vito-based taxi and did a very good job – but at a price; the Mercedes Vito Cab costs around £42k, almost £10k more than the traditional London Taxi.

Top Gear Tonight: Spitfire Bentley, V12 BMW Brutus, Track Day Cars & SIARPC is Alex James

Jeremy goes vintage Supecar blatting Top Gear Series 18 Episode 6 tonight sees a vintage BMW and Bentley on track, Track Day Cars and Alex James from Blur is SIARPC. Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? Series 18 of Top Gear is almost over as tonight’s episode – episode 6 – is the penultimate of the latest series.

Audi S1 becomes Audi A1 1.4 TFSI

The Audi S1 becomes the Audi A1 1.4 TFSI Audi let it leak they were working on making a hot version of the Audi A1, and we fully expected that the Audi S1 would turn up at the Paris Motor Show. So when we heard that Audi had confirmed – but without detail – that the Audi S1 would be at Paris everything made sense, apart from the lack of detail. But now we know why we got no detail – Audi has backtracked on the S1 and has instead planted the oily bits from the Polo GTI in to an A1 and Christened it the Audi A1 1.4 TFSI.