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Chris Evans’ LaFerrari charity drives at Top Gear track (video)

The LaFerrari of Chris Evans at the Top Gear Track There are two sorts of car collectors in the world, those who buy rare and classic cars as investments that are kept locked away in climate-controlled garages, and those who use them and, in rare cases, share them. Chris Evans definitely falls in to the latter camp. As the first UK owner of the LaFerrari supercar, Chris Evans has added Maranello’s latest and finest to a car collection that ranges from the sublime to the even more sublime.

Porsche buyers put the brakes on stop-start technology

By Chris Chilton Motor Industry 23 June 2008 18:56 Direct injection and a clever new PDK dual-clutch gearbox have cemented the new 911’s reputation as the greenest performance car around, but Porsche engineers are being hampered from making the iconic sports car even cleaner by the public’s reluctance to accept further green technology Engineers at the launch of the facelifted 911 told CAR that fitting a BMW-style start-stop system could chop a further 10g/km from the Carrera’s 225g/km CO2 rating but that performance car buyers weren’t keen on having such overtly planet-conscious tech on their cars. Start-stop works by cutting the engine when the car’s stationary in traffic, and restarting automatically when you touch the pedals to move off again. Every manual transmission-equipped BMW 1-series comes with the technology, excepting the truly high performance versions.

Citroen C4 Aircross SUV (2012) first pictures

Citroen has teamed up with Mitsubishi again for its new compact SUV. The new Citroen C4 Aircross is based on Mitsu's ASX crossover and goes on UK sale in the second half of 2012. Citroen and Mitsubishi has form here; they collaborated on the C-Crosser (based on the Outlander) and the C-Zero electric car.