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Carburetor maker Weber celebrates 90th birthday

Weber -- one the great names in automotive carburetion -- has just turned 90. The company was founded by Edoardo Weber in Bologna, Italy in December 1923. In 1920, Weber got his start producing kerosene conversion kits for Fiat trucks (gasoline being relatively expensive in Italy at the time).

Victoria Beckham Range Rover Evoque costs £80k

Range Rover Evoque Victoria Beckham - now it's official Land Rover has revealed the Range Rover Evoque with Victoria Beckham in Beijing and announced it will cost £79,995. We revealed the Victoria Beckham Range Rover Evoque yesterday, and Land Rover has now caught up and done the same in Beijing. There isn’t much we didn’t report yesterday on the Evoque Land Rover hope will mop up business from customisers like Kahn and Revere, but what we didn’t know yesterday was how much the Beckham Evoque would cost, but now we do.

Tesla Model S turns in to Jaguar XF

Jaguar XF - or is it a Tesla? Tesla seem convinced – or at least they’re doing all they can to convince the public – that the Tesla Model S is a soon to be reality, despite all in the industry saying they can’t deliver what they are offering – a high-end, luxury, high-spec sports saloon with a 300 mile range – for the sort of money they claim. That money – as we learned recently – is to be $69,500 for the Tesla S with the 300 mile battery, a price that’s had many scratching their heads over how Tesla can stick enough laptop batteries in the Model S to go that far, and how they can do it at a price that’s a good thirty per cent less than the ‘Lotus-with-batteries’ Tesla Roadster.