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Gordon Murray's electric city car gets green light

The UK Government tonight announced a major investment in Gordon Murray's radical new city car project. A £9 million grant will fund development of the T27, an electric city car successor to the original T25 being designed in the UK by the maverick engineer behind the McLaren F1 and numerous racing cars. The money will be spent designing and producing four prototypes over a 16-month period, with the eventual aim of putting an electric car with sustainable manufacturing processes into full production here in the UK.  The T27 will be the follow-up to the petrol-powered T25, a small city car designed by jointly by Gordon Murray Design and Zytek Automotive technology.

Fiat unveils new 900cc TwinAir two-cylinder engine

Fiats of old used to feature noisy two-cylinders with a fetish for overheating, yet the Italians are at it again, this week releasing details of their new TwinAir two-cylinder 900cc engines. You can see how it works in our video below. The new engines, the first in a series of two-cylinders by the Italians, are designed to trump all other downsizing efforts. Headline figures from the 83bhp twin are 23% more power than the regular 1.2 four-pot and the same as a 1.4 16v - yet with 30% less consumption.

Victoria Beckham Range Rover Evoque costs £80k

Range Rover Evoque Victoria Beckham - now it's official Land Rover has revealed the Range Rover Evoque with Victoria Beckham in Beijing and announced it will cost £79,995. We revealed the Victoria Beckham Range Rover Evoque yesterday, and Land Rover has now caught up and done the same in Beijing. There isn’t much we didn’t report yesterday on the Evoque Land Rover hope will mop up business from customisers like Kahn and Revere, but what we didn’t know yesterday was how much the Beckham Evoque would cost, but now we do.