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Volkswagen Passat Executive and Executive Style

Volkswagen’s moving up in the world with the introduction of the Executive and Executive Style to its Passat range. The two new models add a bit of luxury and bling to the current Passat, ahead of rumours of an all-new version coming in 2015. Find out how much a used Volkswagen Passat costs on Auto Trader On Bing: see pictures of the Volkswagen Passat The new Passat Executive is fitted with 17-inch alloys (an inch bigger than standard on the base-spec ‘S’), as well as splashes of exterior chrome and matt black roof rails on the estate.

Grab a ‘VAT Free’ Skoda Octavia

In yet another ‘Sign of the times’ Skoda has announced that they are now offering ‘VAT Free Octavias’ until the end of the year. No, this is not a tie-up between Alistair Darling and VW, it’s just Skoda’s way of offering a headline price decrease of a bit over 13% (less expensive to Skoda than last week for the same headline, to be fair, and there is a new model due in January!). Grab a VAT free Skoda Octavia I’m pretty sure that there will be a raft of these ‘VAT Free’ offers floating around on everything from cars to washing machines, capitalising on the fact the VAT is in the headlines.

Report: Gasoline engine has big bang for the fuel-economy buck

A government report says improving the gasoline engine will yield huge gains for the consumer and the environment as automakers consider ways to improve fuel economy over the next 14 years. The Obama administration's technical assessment looked at four technology scenarios by which automakers might attain suggested CAFE goals of 47 to 62 mpg for cars and light trucks by 2025. The scenarios differed by the portion of an automaker's fleet that was accounted for by electrics, hybrid electrics and plug-in hybrid electrics.