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McLaren MP4-12C: The build begins +video

First McLaren MP4-12C being built You could be forgiven for thinking that McLaren had already started building their Ferrari 458 challenging car – the McLaren MP4-12C. After all, it’s been turning up all over the place for at least a year, and we even had a good view of the Volcano Orange MP4-12C from Goodwood as it passed us en-route to strut its stuff up the Goodwood Hillclimb last year. But the cars we’ve seen so far – even the Volcano Orange MP4-12C from Goodwood – were prototypes; McLaren’s running test beds for tweaking and refining the MP4-12C before the first cars reach customers this year.

Top Gear Series 20 starts on Sunday

Top Gear’s back on Sunday Top Gear is back with Series 20, starting this coming Sunday (30th June). On offer for the first episode (more details on Sunday morning) will be the arrival of the new ‘Reasonably Priced Car’ with help from the likes of Warwick Davis, Charles Dance and Joss Stone, a trip to New Zealand to race an America’s Cup Yacht and a hot hatch fight-off between the Renaultsport Clio 200, Peugeot 208 GTI and Ford Fiesta ST. Running over the next few weeks we’ll have a trio of supercars taking to the road in Spain, Taxis taking on Motorsport, Clarkson in the BAC Mono, the SLS AMG Black and AMG ED, Crossovers towing Caravans, a Hovercraft car for negotiating floods, the new Jaguar F-Type, the new Range Rover Sport, Ferrari F12 and much, much more.

Honda CR-Z to be built

By Steve Moody First Official Pictures 24 October 2007 11:51 Surely hybrids are worthy but dull? What’s going on with the slinky CR-Z? The CR-Z is only a concept at the moment, but it’s been given the green light to go into production by Honda president and CEO Takeo Fukui, and what you see here is a very close representation of the finished article.