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The Christmas giveaway: 32 prizes up for grabs!

By Jed Maxwell Competitions 26 October 2009 13:54 Christmas is coming and CAR's publisher Bauer Media in association with our subscription partner Greatmagazines.co.uk is giving you the chance to win a bundle of prizes worth more than £1000. There's everything from a copy of CAR commentator Stephen Bayley's brilliant book Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything to toolkits, outdoor gear and computer games. >> Click here to enterBayley's book charting the most influential style icons on four wheels was launched to critical acclaim last year.

Flashback: Pontiac killed on April 27, 2009

It was precisely two years ago today--April 27, 2009--that Pontiac met its demise. In hindsight, the decision made a lot of sense for General Motors, which six weeks later would file for bankruptcy. But at the time, many enthusiasts were more than a bit upset that 80 years of Pontiac--once the third-best-selling brand in the United States--was set for the scrap yard.

UK Government to add electric cars to its fleet – but don’t think the PM will be driving a Tesla Model S

The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV – the sort of car the Government will acquire The roll-out of electric cars has not been an exactly overwhelming success, with even the Government’s £5,000 bribe to get you to go electric failing to kick start electric car sales in a meaningful way. So the Lib Dem bit of the coalition has decided that the Government should lead by example and have declared that the Government Car Service – which supplies cars for ministers and ‘government’ use – will start to acquire electric cars from this Autumn and, as part of the £5 million scheme, the wider public sector will be involved with council, police and NHS fleets looking seriously at EVs. But this scheme is aimed at the sorts of government cars that do the daily grind; ferrying junior ministers, getting staff to meetings and making deliveries in commercial vehicles.