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Range Rover Evoque Victoria Beckham Special Edition tease

Range Rover Evoque Victoria Beckham Special Edition Land Rover has published a tease for the Victoria Beckham Special Edition Range Rover Evoque to be revealed at the Beijing Motor Show. Only yesterday a Cars UK reader posed the question “Where’s the Victoria Beckham Special Edition Range Rover?’. We said we thought it was too early for a Special Edition Evoque, but we’d get the VB edition eventually to get some mileage out of the tie in with Mrs Goldenballs at some point.

Ford once planned to race fiberglass-bodied Mustang touring cars

Tucked away on page nine of the May 9, 1964 issue of Competition Press and Autoweek is an intriguing little story: “FIA Rejects Ford Bid for Homolgation [sic].” At the time, the Mustang had just made its world debut, but Ford was already scheming to fold the car into its “Total Performance” campaign. The automaker apparently proposed to do so with a fleet of crazy fiberglass-bodied touring cars. According to Competition Press, Ford tried to get the new Mustang classified as a touring car for international racing.

Volvos to get twin-clutch gearbox

By Ben Pulman Motor Industry 14 May 2008 13:33 Volvo’s C30, S40 and V50 are now available with a new six-speed twin-clutch ‘box – dubbed Powershift – mated to the company’s 134bhp 2.0-litre diesel. The new twin-clutch gearbox has been developed with Getrag (and Volvo's parent company Ford), and is basically the same unit recently announced in the Focus and C-Max. Volvo claims the new gearbox offers an 8 percent improvement in fuel consumption over a conventional six-speed automatic.