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Performance Car of the Year photo gallery - day 2

 CAR's road testers always dress up for the occasion The Porsche 911 GT2 RS is trailered to the south of France from Stuttgart. It's the car that raises the pulse more than any other here 'I'll have one of each please.' The Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera and Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG arrive by lorry and appear magically on the top of a Provencal mountainside. Stops plenty of passing tourist trade Read the full story in the new January 2011 issue of CAR Magazine out on 22 December - there's a smashing 36-page standalone supplement charting the full story of Performance Car of the Year, as eight greats battle it out for CAR's annual sports car trophy Click through to our facebook page to 'like' your favourite images.

BMW ActiveE – the BMW 1-Series Electric – at Detroit

BMW has reveled the BMW Concept ActiveE at the Detroit Motor Show BMW obviously think there’s room for more than just the MINI E to be punted round the roads by Joe Public to shake out all the wrinkles in their electric car gubbins as they’ve brought along the BMW ActiveE Concept to the Detroit Motor Show – basically an electric BMW 1 Series – which we first reported on back in December. The ActiveE Concept gets a rear mounted electric motor that divvies up 170bhp. Unlike the MINI E BMW has managed to stick the batteries under the car instead of ripping out the back seats to store them.

CAR Magazine scoops Britain's top design prize

By Tim Pollard Motor Industry 16 May 2007 09:33 CAR Magazine's design team has won the top accolade at the UK industry's oscars - the Periodical Publishers Association's Designer of the Year gong. Andy Thomas, who led last year's redesign of CAR with art editor Andy Franklin, collected the prize at the magazine industry's annual ceremony in the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London. CAR is no stranger to the PPA's top design silverware - we won the same award two years ago.