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Churchill’s Land Rover sells for £129,000

A Land Rover presented to Sir Winston Churchill on his 80th birthday has sold at auction for £129,000. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, probably the greatest Prime Minister the UK has ever had, was 80 in 1954, prompting Rover to present the great man with a custom Land Rover so he could be chauffeured round his Chartwell Estate. The Series 1 Land Rover came complete with an extra wide passenger seat, big, padded centre armrest and leather grab handle and had the registration UKE 80 which may (or may not) have referred to Churchill’s age and ‘United Kingdom Empire.

Nissan's senior manager color and design strategy Francois Farion on the importance of objects in keeping focus [w/Video]

Nissan's Francois Farion, senior manager, color and design strategy, features in a new video giving an insight into how important objects are to designers when communicating, defining and maintaining their design intentions. A lot of time and energy goes into designing a car and so, Farion says, it's vital that designers keep their focus throughout the process. He believes objects are the key to creating coherent designs.

2015 Subaru WRX revealed ahead of LA Auto Show

Subaru's 2015 WRX model is slated to make its world debut at the LA Auto Show, but we're getting an advanced look a the enthusiast favorite thanks to a brief teaser video and what may be a leaked image of the sedan making the rounds on the Web. The Japanese automaker has kept the new WRX pretty tightly under wraps. Besides the WRX concept we saw at the New York auto show , Subaru has released little more than a seven-second teaser video.