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Top Gear: Jaguar E-Type, BMW 1-series M & Alice Cooper

Top Gear Series - back for Series 17 on Sunday As the nice man from the BBC who sent us the Top Gear Series 17 photos said, “The world’s favourite programme about cars and middle aged men falling over returns for a brand new series”; this Sunday 26th June 8pm. And what goodies do they have in store for us in the new TG series? Well, we already know about the Nissan LEAF jolly to Lincoln and the Hot Hatch expedition to Lucca (including a detour to drive the Monaco F1 Circuit), but neither of those will be in episode one.

How to become a motoring journalist - and win £2000

If you read CAR Magazine and CAR Online, are aged between 17-23, are based in the UK with a UK passport and fancy becoming a motoring journalist yourself, get ready to enter the industry's biggest award for budding young car writers. The UK's Guild of Motoring Writers and Jaguar have launched the 2011 Sir William Lyons Award to find the best talent of tomorrow. There's a £2000 prize - and the chance to get on the radar of the biggest car magazines and their editors.

VW Beetle Dune at the Detroit auto show

Of all the production-leaning concept vehicles at the Detroit auto show, the Volkswagen Beetle Dune's the sort of flight of fancy nobody was looking for. Nissan's Sport Sedan heralds the look of the next Maxima, which will likely trickle down in some way to future Altimas, Sentras and Versas. It looks as if Nissan will put one of its techno-retro RWD IDx concepts into production.