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Ford launches Cobra Jet and Boss Mustangs

Two new potent Mustangs that channel the past but pack serious modern muscle will soon be available for enthusiasts. Ford revealed the 2012 M-FR500 Cobra Jet Mustang for drag racing at the Performance Racing Industry Show in Orlando on Thursday. For road racers, the Blue Oval is adding the 2011 Mustang Boss 302S.

F1 Budget Cap – No two-tier system says Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone says there will be no two-tier system in the F1 budget cap row [ad#ad-1] All eyes have gone off the stunning start to this year’s F1 circus with the news that Ferrari, Renault, Red Bull and several other teams have threatened to quit F1 next year in protest at the budget cap proposal and the two-tier system that appears to create. In a nutshell, the FIA – lead by Max Mosley – has imposed a £40 million cap on F1 team expenditure for next year (excluding driver costs, marketing costs and transport), but has said that teams who don’t adhere to the cap can still compete, but will be handicapped. Not surprisingly, the richer teams have objected and, on the face of it, it starts to look as if F1 as we know it is going to bite the dust.

2012 BMW 3 Series: The Videos

2012 BMW 3 Series Video Friday was all about the reveal of the new 2012 BMW 3 Series. And we managed to get a big new 3 Series photo gallery up (the most popular page this month already on Cars UK – which tells you how popular the 3 Series is) and full UK prices too, so we thought we ought to update that lot with some video of the new 3 Series to make sure we’d covered all the bases. There are quite a few 3 Series videos coming out of BMW, some better than others.