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Inside the Mini compound

Visitors surrender their passports upon entering Mini headquarters in Germany. It's for security reasons mainly, and obviously the passports are returned on the way out. But the symbolism is obvious: Mini is a world a way from parent BMW.

Cars UK are Exchange & Mart’s ‘Online Experts’

Cars UK is now the 'Online Expert' for Exchange & Mart on all things 'Car'. And they’ve been busy doing that, and they now have a very navigable website and are busy building an online community of petrol heads, centred around their raison d’être – car classifieds. But it seems they are sensible enough to look for help, and they’ve asked Cars UK to be an ‘Online Expert’ in all things car for E&M – in particular on what’s going on in the world of cars; car news and opinion.

Toyota Etios – teased ahead of India launch +video

The Toyota Etiso debuts in Delhi this week Toyota has been doing little teases on a new cheap saloon for emerging markets, and we know the plan is to launch the Toyota Etios on the Indian public on Friday (6th January). We also know that the Etios is Toyota’s cheap, mass-market car with which they hope to take on the current market leaders Suzuki (oh, alright, strictly speaking it’s Maruti in India – but it’s the same thing) and it’s going to get the 1.4 diesel out of the Yaris and probably a 1.2 petrol as well. The Etios will appeal to the rising wealth of middle-class India.