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Lamborghini turns Black Cab for a day

HAVE YOU ever seen a Lamborghini taxi? Probably not, but for one day only the brains behind the new Pure Rally initiative turned a Gallardo supercar into a London Black Cab. Londoners and tourists alike were able to hail the 201mph 'Lambo Cab' on Wednesday April 23, as part of a publicity drive to promote a new, more affordable kind of pan-European car rally adventure.

Ferrari F12 Berlinetta to be auctioned for Sandy victims

Ferrari is doing its part to help Hurricane Sandy victims by auctioning off the first F12 Berlinetta that will be sold on American soil. The base price of Ferrari's halo model is about $315,000. We'd expect this one to go for much more than that.

BMW plotting a hydrogen fuel cell EV

The BMW i3 EV (pictured) will eventually be joined by a hydrogen fuel cell BMW BMW has now taken its first fully-fledged step in to the electric car market with the BMW i3, revealed in full earlier this week. The i3 is a properly competent offering from BMW and it seems likely that, despite a price pushing on £30k even after the taxpayer bribe for EVs, that they will find a ready market in their affluent customer base for the i3 as a second (or third, or fourth…) car for local runarounds. BMW has even managed to negate range anxiety by offering the option of a range-extender engine in the i3 – basically a BMW motorcycle engine to charge the battery when it runs out of juice – so BMW’s customers who may wish to use their i3 for more than just a trip the shops can do so without getting stranded.