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How the Honda Civic got a fast makeover

Jay Guzowski was getting more nervous by the day. As senior product planner for the redesign of the 2012 Honda Civic, Guzowski was shepherding the compact car from design freeze to market. But as he listened to others around the American Honda conference table -- with a year to go before the car's on-sale date -- he heard a disturbing refrain: The upcoming Civic was not good enough.

Eagle E-Type Lightweight Speedster to debut at this year’s Salon Prive

The glorious Eagle E-Type Lightweight Speedster Two years ago Eagle, makers of the sort of E-Type Jaguar engineers would have given up at least a limb each to be able to build, took to Salon Prive the Eagle E-Type Speedster. For many – me included – it was at the very top of the heap most desirable cars at Salon Prive. And praise comes no higher.

Driven: Volkswagen Passat CC GT

Elegant and refined. Forty years ago these two words would not have been used to describe the Beetles bought in droves by the counterculture in the US; a symbol of the hippy movement and the definitive people's car, designed at a time when Germany sought to put people in motion. With the Passat CC, however, Volkswagen is indeed making a sharp move away from the ‘volks wagen', and these two words rolled off the tongues of those who saw the car in all three countries we drove through on our winter holiday.