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Shanghai Auto Show 2009 blog

By Phil McNamara Motor Shows 20 April 2009 11:51 What do you get if you cross Blade Runner with Carry On Motoring? You get the Shanghai auto show ladies and gentlemen, where CAR is imbedded today. Read on to see hilarious clones of the Mini and the Rolls Phantom, hear key news from British car manufacturers including Jaguar and Rolls-Royce and to gain a little insight into what’s going down in China’s car market, now the world’s biggest.

U-turn for wheelchair row taxi firm

A TAXI firm that refused to pick up wheelchair users has had to perform a U-turn. Middlesbrough-based Boro Cars, the largest taxi firm in the North East, had originally said refusing disabled passengers was "morally wrong", but it brought in the policy anyway. The firm insists that minibuses cost drivers more to rent and that the standard fares, which are the only fares that can be charged to disabled passengers, are not high enough to earn operators any money.

Gorden Wagener on how Mercedes is "moving from a traditional luxury brand to a modern luxury brand"

Mercedes' 'home' design studio in Sindelfingen, Germany is housed in an expansive 30,000-square meter building designed by Renzo Piano. The lobby is unassuming, but we're soon through into what Mercedes' grandly calls 'the Vision Room.' It's here that strategic meetings are held with the firm's board, and where we meet Gorden Wagener, Mercedes' head of design since 2008. It's in the Vision Room that Wagener convinced the Mercedes board of the merits of his overarching design philosophy: 'sensual purity'.