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CAR's 12 days of Christmas competition bonanza

By Ben Pulman Competitions 14 December 2008 00:00 It’s the last day of CAR’s Christmas giveaway bonanza and that means something very special. Today we’re offering one reader a 12-month subscription to CAR Magazine, and don’t worry if you already subscribe, because we’ll add this deal to your existing subscription. Click here to enter our competition And you can still enter the previous day’s competitions, with chances to win a Porsche perfume, a Lamborghini umbrella, a limited-edition model of the Ferrari 575 GTZ, books on Mercedes design and car design, Scion and Abarth caps, an RC Fiat 500, Need for Speed computer games, plus lots and lots of bools Day 1: Porsche Design: The EssenceDay 2: Lamborghini umbrellaDay 3: Ferrari 575 GTZ modelDay 4: Mercedes Design bookDay 5: Car Design Yearbook 7Day 6: Scion cap and Abarth cap and keyringDay 7: Remote control Fiat 500Day 8: Suixtill touring bag and racing pantsDay 9: Need for Speed (with a French manual) for PSP, PS3 and Xbox 360 Day 10: Racing booksDay 11: A plethora of other booksDay 12: A 12-month subscription to CAR Click here to enter our competition This competition closes on Saturday 31 January 2009.

New Range Rover Sport takes on Pikes Peak – and wins

The new Range Rover Sport takes on the Pikes Peak Hillclimb Pikes Peak is an unforgiving Hill Climb, spanning 12.42 miles and 156 corners, rising to 4,300 meters above sea level with oxygen levels at the top down to just 58 per cent of those at sea level, making it incredibly hard for both man and machinery to function. But despite the challenge, Land Rover has taken the new Range Rover Sport up Pikes Peak in a new record time for a production SUV, covering the 12.42 mile course of twists and turns in just 12m 35.61s at an average speed of 59.17mph. You won’t be surprised to learn that Land Rover choose to use the new RRS with the 5.0 litre Supercharged engine for the record run, but apart from fitting a roll cage and harness seatbelts, the Sport had no modifications at all.

Saab 9-4X Revealed

Saab 9-4X Revealed It’s nice to see that Saab are getting back to being a maker of cars rather than a pawn of GM, and the reveal this afternoon of the Saab 9-4X marks the second new model in 2010 for Saab, even though both the Saab 9-5 and the Saab 9-4X have been on the horizon for what seems like forever. And, of course, after years (buried) under the GM umbrella  Saab’s products are going to be GM based, at least for now. So what we have with the Saab 904X is a Saab-ised Cadillac SRX, but that’s not too bad a thing.