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Audi A5 Coupe – the aluminium future.

Audi has built a lightweight A5 with aluminium body. Audi has taken a standard existing steel-bodied production car as its basis and utilised Audi’s Aluminium Space Frame which reduces the weight of the car body by at least 40% compared to a conventional steel bodied car. The result on the A5 is a drop in weight of 240 lbs (not quite the complete aluminium future Jaguar are working towards).

Brabus tunes Mercedes-Benz CLS station wagon to 619 hp

We first saw the Mercedes-Benz CLS “Shooting Brake” at the Beijing motor show in 2010. It reappeared this year at the Paris motor show. Now, German tuner Brabus has built an enhancement package for the big, angry wagon.

Nissan LEAF aiming for reversing speed record at Goodwood Festival of Speed

Nissan are going to take the LEAF EV backwards up the Goodwood hillclimb this weekend, aiming for a new Guinness World Record. We’ve had a real spate of car ‘World Record’ stuff lately, with Mercedes catching a golf ball in an SLS driven by David Coulthard and MINI breaking a parking record. And now it’s Nissan’s turn.