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Top Gear: Rapide, Panamera & Quattroporte four-seat supercars tonight

Rubens Barrichello and Rupert Grint on Top Gear tonight Another week flies by and we’re almost half way through the latest series (Series 15) of Top Gear. Episode 3 tonight at the normal 8pm on BBC2. Although there’s a fair chance the footballists amongst you will be sticking TG on Sky+ and watching the World Cup.

Part-worn tyre sales under the microscope again

SALES of part-worn tyres are about to hit the agenda again following a study from charity TyreSafe that found 98% of potentially dangerous part-worn tyres were being sold illegally. As a result the organisation has stepped up to take part in the forthcoming Trading Standards conference at the end of June, after a successful trial last year. Running for three days from 30th June at the Harrogate International Centre, the event is the biggest gathering of trading standards officers and enforcement professionals in the UK.

Video: The making of Forza Motorsport 4

Turn 10, the studio behind the design of Forza Motorsport 4 video game, has produced a video to revealed the lengthy process behind the creation of each car in their virtual pit garage. The video describes each, painstaking step from sourcing of the cars that will feature in the game to the development of the sound of each car. Some cars are scanned using equipment which gives accurate readings to 1/12,000 inch (around 0.002mm) is used to capture data that's imported into software used by anyone familiar with a design studio.