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Win a Porsche track day and other goodies

By Tim Pollard Competitions 28 April 2008 17:25 To mark our Porsche special, CAR has teamed up with Porsche to give away an official Porsche Driving Experience to one lucky reader. You'll be offered one of the first places at the new facility being built at Silverstone in the UK. Click here for your chance to win It opens in late summer 2008 and you and a guest will spend half a day driving a 911 or other Porsche of your choice (subject to availability, but they'll do their level best to source your preferred Porsche).

Smart for-us

The latest addition to the Smart conceptual range is the for-us pickup, which follows on from the forspeed convertibe of Geneva, and the forvision hatchback that was unveiled Frankfurt, delivering another twist on the iconic city car platform. Despite the increase of size to 3547mm in length, traditional Smart iconography such as the tridon safety cell, three-spoke wheels and product-like execution – such as the inner lamp graphics – retain the brand identity. Squarer lamp and grille graphics and knobbly rocker surfacing add a twist of robustness.

Toyota to end Australian manufacturing in 2017

When Holden announced that it would no longer build cars in Australia after 2017, that country’s flagging automotive industry was effectively put on notice -- Mitsubishi had stopped building cars there in 2008, and Ford says its two plants there will close in October 2016. Now Toyota has announced that it has no option but to end vehicle Australian vehicle production. Like Holden, it will close its factories there in 2017.