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2013 VW Golf GTI MK 7 revealed

We have the first photos of the 2013 Vokswagen Golf GTI – the MK VII GTI – ahead of a debut at the 2012 Paris Motor Show. It’s just over three years since the MK 6 Golf GTI arrived and now – ahead of what was expected – we have the reveal of the 2013 VW Golf GTI MK VII. Heading for the 2012 Paris Motor SHow this week, the new Golf GTI holds no real surprises – it’s the MK 7 Golf with the usual GTI appendages.

Think, again: Norwegian electric-car maker looks for U.S. plant

Think, the Norwegian electric-car maker, says it plans to build an assembly plant and a technical center in the United States. After financing failed in the wake of the collapse of credit markets in late 2008, the company entered Norway's debt-settlement process (the equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy), and production of its recently redesigned Think city car was halted. It continues operating under a $6 million interim funding measure while it pursues additional financing.

LENNON'S FIRST CAR UNDER THE HAMMER

THE FIRST car bought by John Lennon after he passed his driving test is being offered for sale at auction next month. The Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 Coupe was bought by the Beatle in 1965 and is expected to sell for between 120,000 euros (£99,987) and 170,000 euros (£141,000). Lennon's biographer, Philip Norman, described how car dealers descended on the singer's home when the news emerged that he had passed his test and offered him a "gleaming smorgasbord" of luxury cars.