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Win a limited-run Lewis Hamilton portrait

By Ben Pulman Competitions 19 August 2009 09:00 CAR Online has teamed up with Mobil 1 to offer you the chance to win a limited-edition print of Lewis Hamilton, based on a portrait of the F1 driver which used the oil from his own race car. Click here to enter our competition Earlier this year US artist David Macaluso painted a portrait of Lewis Hamilton using the oil from the sump of the current F1 champ’s title-winning grand prix car. And now CAR is giving away one of 50 limited-run prints being produced.

Few cars perform well in new insurance group crash test

The insurance industry has unveiled a new, tough frontal-crash test. The first batch of 11 luxury and near-luxury cars put to the test by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety didn't fare so well--only three were rated as good or acceptable. The test rams the front corner of a car into a fixed barrier at 40 mph.

GM Sale to Magna Cancelled

GM has cancelled the sale of Opel and Vauxhall to Magna It’s been fraught with problems from the start, but what fire-sale isn’t? The unions have been unimpressed with what Magna were offering. The EU has had a pout and a stomp about the sale.  Lord Mandy has said lots but done little.