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Volkswagen to launch new large SUV in USA

Volkswagen has revealed plans to invest $7 billion (£4.2 billion) in North America, with the launch of a new SUV in 2016. The midsize SUV will take Volkswagen towards it goal of selling 1 million cars a year stateside by 2018. On Bing: see pictures of the Volkswagen CrossBlue concept Find out how much a used Volkswagen SUV costs on Auto Trader The seven-seat SUV is based on the CrossBlue concept, seen at the Detroit Motor Show last year.

Citroen C3 Picasso 90th Anniversary Limited Edition released

Citroen has launched a 90th anniversary limited edition of the C3 Picasso To give the campaign credibility – and to celebrate the 90th anniversary – Citroen has launched a limited edition of the C3 Picasso, catchily named the Citroen C3 Picasso 90th Anniversary Limited Edition. Wonder how they came up with that name. The C3 Picasso 90th is based on the Citroen C3 Exclusive, and comes in a choice of Citroen’s signature colours – Red, White or Black.

Electric cars must get noisier, ICE cars must get quieter

Electric cars will have to make a noise to protect pedestrians It’s four years since the Lotus solution for making electric cars noisy raised its head, since when the US has had a go at the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act in 2010 to do the same thing, the Japanese are playing too, and Toyota revealed the Prius Vehicle Notification System, and now the EU has decided its time to act to make EVs emit ‘noise’. Despite the most appealing part of an EV being that it makes our cities quieter, legislators worry about the blind, partially sighted and distracted pedestrian (think earphones and a Smartphone) being mowed down by a stalking electric car and feel the need to act. So the European Parliament has decided that by 2019 new models of electric vehicle will have to make a noise in cities, and that by 2021 all new hybrids and electrics must be noisy too.