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Mercedes' production Bluetec diesel SUVs

By Ben Pulman First Official Pictures 13 March 2008 17:14 Europe loves diesel, America doesn’t, so welcome to the US-only Mercedes Bluetec SUVs. The R, ML and GL 320 Bluetec diesels will be launched in America in autumn 2008, but won’t be coming to Europe yet. The three SUVs, which Mercedes claims come with the world’s latest and cleanest diesel engine, may not even make it to the UK.  All three come with a 3.0-litre diesel engine that has revised piston crowns, a lower compression ratio, and a new turbocharger and ECU.

UK drivers change cars as often as their mobile phone

DRIVERS in the UK change their cars as often as they swap to a new mobile phone. In the past 10 years, the average British motorist has owned four mobile phones and four cars. A study by Privilege shows that most drivers own an average of seven cars in their driving career, even though that figure includes four cars in the past decade.

Traxxas remote-controlled car hits 100 mph: Video

Remote-controlled cars have a come a long way since the double-A-battery-powered, open-wheeled, plastic-chassis cars of the past. So far along, in fact, that today's high-quality cars don't do 50 mph, 60 mph or 70 mph. The new Traxxas XO-1 does a neck-snapping 100 mph.