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Aston Martin gives luxury makeover to Toyota city car

Luxury carmaker Aston Martin has forged an innovative alliance with Toyota to develop what could be the world's first luxury city car. Aston Martin on Monday released a photo of the Cygnet, which is a Toyota iQ with restyled front sheetmetal. Although officially billed a concept, reports in Britain say that Aston Martin will put the Cygnet on sale next year.

Ferrari 458 Italia launches at Frankfurt

The Ferrari 458 Italia officially launched today at Frankfurt The styling is a little subjective; it’s very much of the time. To us it looks fantastic, and if the 458 wallpaper downloads from Cars UK are anything to go by, you feel the same. We know how quick it is – 0-60mph in around 3.4 seconds and over 200mph – and we know all about the toys and the new dash.

Planning continues for driverless cars

OFFICIALS in California have been looking to the future as they bid to legislate for the arrival of hi-tech driver-less cars. A law passed in 2012 set a deadline of the end of this year for the state's Department of Motor Vehicles to decide how to legally integrate the so-called autonomous vehicles - which were once the stuff of science fiction but could be commercially available by the end of the decade. The latest talks on the matter among roads officials focused on how the vehicles will record actions so the data can be used to reconstruct an accident in an effort to trace the cause.