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2013 Land Rover Discovery 4 gets tweaks & Black Design Pack

Land Rover has revealed the 2013 Discovery 4 with a few tweaks, more colours and Black design Pack & Extended Leather Pack. You can now have your Discovery 4 in five new colours -  Havana, Barolo Black, Barossa, Mariana Black and Causeway Grey – and the HSE gets a nice set of shiny 19″ 7-spoke alloys for a bit more bling. Inside the 2013 Discovery gets some new choices too with Arabica seats with Nutmeg stitching and Ivory seats with Ivory stitching on offer and a new Grand Ivory Lacquer and new gloss black finishers for the switches with Cosmic Grey and option.

Jaguar F-Type photo leaks ahead of Paris motor show debut

We've seen galleries galore of Jaguar F-Type testers running around the western United States in camo. Thanks to a leaky European website, though, this first official photo of the production F-Type has hit the Internet. The image shows a trio of F-Types, all with S badging in the front grille; no word on which powerplant is beneath each of the curvaceous hoods, but we'll find out next week at the Paris auto show.

MPs call for parking charge reports

COUNCILS should publish annual parking-charge reports to show where revenue comes from and where it is being used, MPs said today. The use of parking charges and fines specifically to raise revenue was "neither acceptable nor legal" said Louise Ellman, chairman of the House of Commons Transport Committee. Launching a report by her committee into local authority parking enforcement in England, Mrs Ellman said: "There is a deep-rooted public perception that parking enforcement is used as a cash cow, so it's essential that local authorities apply stringent transparency." The committee said local authorities in England had a collective parking surplus in the hundreds of millions of pounds, but that the exact amount was subject to debate.