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Stratospheric price for Volkswagen's 'future car'

IF YOU want tomorrow's car today, you're going to have to pay for it. Volkswagen has announced that the ultra-futuristic XL1 will sell in the UK for more than £98,000. The first XL1 was delivered to a German customer in May, with UK buyers now lined up to take a share of the 200 that are due to be built.

Audi A1 – the ONLY premium Super Mini

Werner Zimmermann, Audi's Head of Quality, says the Audi A1 will be the only premium Supermini We’ve got a bit bored with the tease that is the Audi A1. After all, we have a pretty good idea what it’s all about and it seems to be being milked for all it’s worth. We did run the ‘Audi A1 Graffiti’ tease, and the ‘Audi A1 Design’ a few days ago.

McLaren P1: Middle East demand outstrips supply & new P1 photos

So the opening of McLaren Manama –  a joint venture between McLaren Automotive, Mumtalakat, and Al Ghassan Motors - at the Bahrain World Trade Centre is an opportunity to get the P1 front and centre as McLaren promotes both the new showroom and the upcoming 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix. But it won’t just be the P1 in McLaren’s new Bahrain showroom, it will also be the getting the Formula One gloss too with the MP4-25 – Jenson Button’s car in his 2010 season with McLaren – going on display to garner footfall in the new showroom. To give us a reason to report on the new showroom in Bahrain, McLaren has released more images from the photo shoot earlier this year at the Bahrain International Circuit when they were busy drumming up interest in the P1, and they’re such beautifully lit and shot images we couldn’t not publish them.