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Nissan LEAF aiming for reversing speed record at Goodwood Festival of Speed

Nissan are going to take the LEAF EV backwards up the Goodwood hillclimb this weekend, aiming for a new Guinness World Record. We’ve had a real spate of car ‘World Record’ stuff lately, with Mercedes catching a golf ball in an SLS driven by David Coulthard and MINI breaking a parking record. And now it’s Nissan’s turn.

New 2014 Range Rover Sport testing in Mojave Desert (video)

We have video of the new 2014 Range Rover Sport out testing in the Mojave Desert ahead of a likely reveal at Frankfurt 2013. It’s been six months since we last had spy video of the 2014 Range Rover Sport out testing, and now it’s been caught again in the U.S. as Land Rover continue to work on making the new Range Rover Sport the car it should always have been.

UK sales slide continues: 'worst market for 17 years'

By Tim Pollard Motor Industry 06 October 2008 12:22 Britain's new car market is in deep trouble, official sales figures today confirm. September is historically one of the two biggest registration months of the year, as buyers rush to snap up the autumn's new number plate – yet sales were down by a fifth last month. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, which collates sales data from dealers, called it 'stormy September', as new-car registrations plummeted by 21 percent from last year's figure to 330,295.