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Mark Vaughn: We’ll always have Vegas

There were a few bare spots on the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show this year, spots that in previous years had been jammed sardine-like with myriad Taiwanese makers of Hello Kitty knockoff cell phone cozies and electronic barking dogs, but the show this year was nonetheless pretty well attended. Besides, for those working their way upstream through the aisles like so many digitally trained trout, the empty spots left by exhibitors that pulled out were like refreshing mountain meadows or little piazzas in crowded Italian cities. Show management stocked the open spots with cushy couches, too, on which many a jet-lagged showgoer snoozed.

Bentley returns to racing with Continental GT3 (2012)

Think of Bentley and you might immediately imagine weighty, vaguely sporting luxury cars. Think racing and Bentley, and a 1920’s Blower Bentley pounding around Brooklands might pop into your head. But Bentley is going to try and change that, taking the brand back to the race track with the new Continental GT3 racing car.

2013 BMW Z4 Facelift & Z4 sDrive18i revealed

BMW has given the Z4 the smallest of facelifts for 2013 and added a new model – the BMW Z4 sDrive18i. Arrives April 2013. All that’s really changed is a slightly different set of LED headlights and some new alloy options, with the smallest of detail changes to the trim on the interior.