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NHTSA proposes rules for automakers to add sound to hybrids, EVs

Automakers would need to make hybrids and electric vehicles emit sound under rules that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed on Monday. The rules, ordered by Congress three years ago, are meant to protect pedestrians and bicyclists from vehicles that make little sound when using electric power. NHTSA says that designing the vehicles to make noise at speeds below 18 mph would prevent about 2,800 injuries over the life of each model year of vehicles.

A beautiful F1 book when you subscribe to CAR

Art of the Formula 1 Race Car, worth £30 – free when you subscribe to CAR Magazine By Ben Barry Motoring Issues 17 August 2010 16:51 If you subscribe to CAR Magazine this month, we've got a special treat in store for you: a wonderful hardback book charting the art of the greatest Formula 1 racers over the decades. It's a glossy book with sky-high production values worth £30 – yet it's your free when you take out a year's subscription to CAR Magazine. Click here to see more details on this great offer, which is available to all UK-based subscribers.

New BMW X4 price and specs for the UK – costs from £36,590

The new BMW X4 is now on sale in the UK The new BMW X4 – BMW’s baby X6 and a ‘coupe’ version of the very able X3 – arrived at the Geneva Motor SHow in March, and it’s now on sale in the UK priced from £36,590 for the BMW X4 xDrive20d SE, a chunky £3.5k more than the equivalent X3. But what you’re buying in the new X4 is a lifestyle statement rather than a family SAV like the X3, so the premium is so others know you’re prepared to pay more for a less practical urban SUV. Still, a similar scenario with the X5 and X6 hasn’t stopped buyers opting for the X6 instead and it seems likely the X4 will take an even bigger split of the X3/X4 sales than the X6 does from the X5.