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Car Designers Blackmailed

A London court has found former design student Guy Lloyd-Parker guilty of blackmailing US car designers. The London College of Fashion graduate had claimed that 95 car design sketches were stolen from him by two college lecturers in 1994, eventually resurfacing as final designs in the form of the Audi TT, BMW Z3, Mazda RX-8 and the Volvo XC90. Lloyd-Parker, having failed to successfully sue the college, began sending menacing letters to California-based Volvo Design Director Geza Loczi, former BMW and Aston Martin designer Henrik Fisker, and ex-Mazda designer Tsutomu Matano demanding £90,000.

Watch: XCar tests the Pagani Huarya

Huayra means “god of the winds” in the Quechua language, hence the word's attachment to the 230 mph Pagani hypercar that debuted in 2012 with a price of $1.3 million. British outfit XCar took the company's latest to the streets for the full shakedown. XCar starts with a little history on the company before going into the trick aero bits that stay hidden when you want to go fast, and appear when you want to take a corner.

BMW M3 CRT (2011) first official pictures

This is the BMW M3 CRT. It's a lightweight special edition, mating track-spec technology from the M3 GTS with the M3 saloon body. The M3 CRT was unveiled at a BMW M function prior to the 2011 Nurburgring 24hr race this weekend.