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Mazda MX-5 roadster distilled to Superlight concept for Frankfurt

Mazda's design and engineering team in Germany has taken the MX-5 roadster and boiled it down to its pure speedster form to create the Superlight concept. We'll get a close look at the car at the Frankfurt motor show. Some changes are obvious.

Germany plans to charge foreigners to drive on the Autobahn

Germany plans to charge foreigners to drive on the Autobahn It seems Germany is planning to charge to use the Autobahn network – just as France does – but it plans to levy the charge just on foreign visitors. The plan is part of a deal by Angela Merkel’s Social Democrat party to form a new coalition and would see all non-German drivers paying a fixed toll to use the Autobahns. But the plan is coming under fire from neighbouring countries (Germany has borders with nine other countries) and even from its own version of the AA – the ADAC – who say the revenue likely to be raised – around £220 million – will do little to address the costs.

2013 Range Rover Sport revealed

2013 Range Rover Sport Land Rover has revealed a slightly tweaked version of the Range Rover Sport for the 2013 MY. No, this isn’t the ‘New’ Range Rover Sport, the one we expect to be based on a cut-down version of the 2013 Range Rover. Instead, this is the last hurrah for the current Range Rover Sport with its underpinnings stolen from the Land Rover Discovery and weighing the same as one of Jupiter’s middle size moons.