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Cautious welcome for fuel duty freeze

MOTORING groups have given a cautious welcome to Chancellor George Osborne's announcement of a freeze on fuel duty until May 2015. Both the AA and the RAC pointed out that Mr Osborne was already getting big sums from motorists in taxation. Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said: "Transport is the single biggest area of household expenditure bar none and our own research shows that 800,000 of the poorest households are in transport poverty, spending a quarter or more of their income on running a car.

Stealth Approach For Latest Range Rover Sport

LAND ROVER has unveiled a new addition to its Range Rover Sport line-up. The firm has added a ‘Stealth Pack’ option for buyers of the HSE Dynamic and Autobiography Dynamic variants. Making its debut at the forthcoming Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Range Rover Sport Stealth Pack features a satin black front grille and grille surround, fog lamp bezels, bonnet and bumper vents, upper mirror caps and tailgate finisher.

Back to basics for VW, says Walter de Silva

By Adam Towler Motor Industry 25 June 2008 13:01 It was an odd place for an inside line into what future Volkswagens will look like, but when head of VW Group design Walter de Silva invited CAR to the old Fiat Lingotto factory in Turin - now a conference and shopping centre – we could hardly say no. De Silva described VW as being immersed in a 'process of defining their design language' which could be read as ‘we’re still sucking our designer thumbs to see what happens’. Audi, De Silva said, had already been through that process and its design DNA was ‘understood by everyone in the company, right down to the smallest details'.