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Top Gear Three Wise Men cars off to Beaulieu

The Top Gear Three Wise Men Cars are now on display at Beaulieu That didn’t take long. Despite the Top Gear Christmas ‘Three Wise men’ Road trip only airing on the Beeb yesterday – and the whole Top Gear Iraq to Bethlehem episode only being filmed in October – it’s been revealed that the cars that starred in the Christmas Special have already found their way off to the World of Top Gear exhibition at Beaulieu. The whole ‘World of Top Gear’ at Beaulieu is a ‘must-see’ for the proper Top Gear anorak, with everything from a recreation of the Top Gear Studio – including the Cool Wall – to a collection of cars from some of Top Gear’s most ambitious challenges over the years.

Autoweek in review: What you might have missed

At the start of the week, Kia announced that it will launch a rear-wheel-drive sedan code-named the KH in the first half of 2012. U.S.-based press officials wouldn't comment on whether the KH would come stateside, despite a 36 percent increase in U.S. Kia sales in 2011.

Spied: Mercedes-Benz SLC AMG? UPDATED

LATEST UPDATE Mercedes-Benz’s AMG performance car off-shoot has kicked off public road tests of its eagerly awaited new sportscar, which is planned to go on sale in North America in early 2015. Smaller and more affordable than the existing SLS AMG, which the new two door liftback will indirectly replace in the German car maker’s line-up, the new car is planned to compete directly with the Porsche 911, both on price and performance. The coupe model, caught here exiting AMG’s engineering headquarters on the outskirts of Stuttgart in Germany yesterday in the first round of durability testing, will proceed a convertible version of the front-engined, rear-wheel drive sportscar due out in 2016, with an expected price tag of around $100,000 in the US.