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New VW Polo (2010) UK orders

The 3-Door VW Polo is now available to order in the UK Due in the UK in January, the three-door Polo is now available to order in the UK. And actually, it’s a better looking car than its five-door sibling. The three door shape looks more aggressive and purposeful, but under the skin it’s the same competent little car.

Jaguar’s Mike O’Driscoll calls it a day

Mike O'Driscoll, Jaguar's M.D., is to retire in march 2011. Jaguar’s Managing Director Mike O’Driscoll has been a Jaguar man for longer than he probably cares to remember. In fact he joined Jaguar Rover Triumph (as it then was) as long ago as 1975, when he was a young business student.

Design Services: Car Menu launched

Within almost every automotive design department throughout the world, their comes a time when a junior designer is dispatched to find a picture of some new model's tail lamp, the side view of a particular class leading competitor or examples of several new cars' colour and trim packages. Whilst looking at the competition is not necessarily a healthy way of finding ideas, it is often essential to demonstrate what is feasible, check in-house proposals are not too derivative, or show how advanced a design theme is relative to the same type of cars on the market. But even if the particular aspect of a car can be found, press packs and magazines typically show cars in the flattering light of an exotic location or being drifted around a corner on opposite lock; rarely are these images particularly useful.