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  • Lewis Hamilton returns to Top Gear

    Lewis Hamilton on Top Gear
    If you missed last night’s new episode of Top Gear, apart from Matt LeBlanc, Eric clapton and Bruce Willis helping to test the new Kia Cee-apostrophe-d, a certain Mr Lewis Hamilton also made an appearance.

    Clearly still irked that his name wasn’t atop the leader board, the Mercedes F1 driver wanted to put this little matter to rest, one and for all. We won’t tell you if he managed to achieve his goal, but he did.

    If you haven’t got time to wait, you can skip to segment four of the video.
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  • MINI performs 360° backflip in the Alps

    MINI backflip
    MINI has just released this video featuring Guerlain Chicherit as he performs a 360° backflip in a heavily-modified Countryman.

    Filmed at the Tignes Ski Resort in the French Alps, this GRAVIT-T team driver clearly has nuts the size of melons to pull this stunt off.

    Feel free to try this at home. And if you end up a paraplegic as a result, ask your carer to email us a video of the event.
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  • Voomeran Volkswagen up!

    Voomeran Volkswagen up!
    Apart from ABT’s offering, modifiers appear to be keeping a distance from Volkswagen’s up! model, but the Japanese styling specialist Voomeran has now put its own twist on the baby citycar.

    The company’s aero package includes smoothed, deeper front and rear bumpers with optional foglights, side skirts and a set of wheel arch extensions. Although this particular car has been lowered, the arches have been designed to sit 10 mm lower at the front and 15 mm lower at the rear than the factory items, and also add 20 mm to the overall width of the car.

    Finally, there’s a choice of ten different colours of side stripes, while the wheels pictures here are RS multi-piece DP Cup items.
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  • Lamborghini Aventador Roadster reviewed

    Lamborghini Aventador Roadster
    Car and Driver‘s contributing editor Basem Wasef recently spent some time on the track at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Lamborghini’s epic Aventador Roadster.

    Packing a 515 kW (700 hp) and 690 Nm punch from its 6.5-litre V12 powerplant, this imposing machine rockets to 100 km/h in just 3 seconds before thundering on to a 350 km/h (217 mph) top speed.
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  • Volkswagen Transporter Edition

    Volkswagen Transporter Edition
    Volkswagen has announced details of the Transporter Edition model, offering customers a sportier twist on the popular van.

    Standard additions applied to this version include 17-inch Anthracite Cascavel alloy wheels, a matte black roof panel, colour-matched electric and heated mirrors, exclusive badging, power windows, H7 headlamps and fog lamps. Optional extras such as matte black 18-inch AZEV R alloys and bi-xenon headlamps with LED daytime running lights can also be specified. Moving inside, the cabin features Tasamo fabric on the seats and leather coverings on the steering wheel, gearknob and handbrake lever.

    Available to order from today, in either Candy White, Salsa Red, Natural or Grey Metallic Reflex Silver Metallic, with a choice of three petrol and three diesel engines ranging from the 75 kW (102 hp) 2.0 TDI to the 150 kW (204 hp) 2.0 TSI, pricing starts at €26,846.
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  • APR Motorsport teases new Audi supercharger

    RS 5 supercharger
    Alabama-based APR Motorsport has previewed the company’s new supercharger kit to suit Audi’s current RS 4 and RS 5 models.

    No specifications were released with the image, but APR already has a Stage III system available for the previous (B7) RS 4, which helps to lift output from 309 kw (414 hp) and 430 Nm of torque to 425 kW (570 hp) and 691 Nm. So, given that its successor produces 331 kW (450 hp) in factory guise, we can’t wait to see what this totally new unit can achieve, which features an integrated ‘charger & manifold just like the OEM versions.

    [Source: APR on Facebook]