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Malaysian Grand Prix Qualifying: Vettel on pole for Red Bull

Another rain soaked qualifying at the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix saw Sebastian Vettel take pole for Red Bull, beating the Ferrari’s of Massa and Alonso. It’s always sunny in Australia,  but it wasn’t last week for qualifying in the Australian Grand Prix. And this weekend hasn’t been much better in Malaysia.

MINI: Meet the MINI Family Video

MINI sends us a 2011 family video Many moan that MINI has become a parody under BMW, but the truth is that it’s just become an enormous success with BMW doing what BL tried to do a generation ago – and failed. BL failed to grow and develop the Mini beyond the 1960s, although it had success in the ’60s with badge-engineered Minis (Riley Elf, Wolsely Hornet), Mini Coopers and Countrymans, and even a grown-up Mini – the Austin/Morris 1100. So BMW are really only carrying on what BL did in the ’60s, just in spades.

Ferrari California to get more power and less weight for 2012

2012 Ferrari California - more power, less weight The Ferrari California has been quite the success story for Ferrari. It’s brought in a whole raft of new customers for Maranello and now accounts for the biggest sales numbers in the Ferrari range. Which should be no real surprise – by Ferrari standards the California is almost affordable.