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Anders Warming to replace Gert Hildebrand as Design Director at Mini

Mini is set to get a new Design Director at the start of the new year. Gert Volker Hildebrand will pass the reigns to current Head of Exterior Design at BMW Cars, Anders Warming, the German automaker announced today. Gert Hildebrand has overseen the entire development and evolution of the Mini range since the introduction of the 'new' Mini, designed by Frank Stephenson in 2000.

BMW 1-series M Coupe (2011) official teaser video

This is the new BMW 1-series Coupe, the next car to come out of BMW’s famed M Division. Just ahead of the launch of the M3 GTS (a stripped-out, track-focussed M3 with an enlarged 4.4-litre V8), BMW has released this teaser video of its next M car, the 1-series M Coupe Nope, that name is reserved for BMW’s legendary supercar, but it should still be pretty tasty. We hear there’s a 3.0-litre twin-turbo straight six under the bonnet, producing somewhere around 350bhp, and an M Division-spec interior, while this video shows off the chunky bodykit with a deep front bumper and four exhausts.

Win an Audi R8 for the weekend!

By Tim Pollard Competitions 25 February 2009 09:00 Click here to win an Audi R8 for the weekend with CAR Magazine To celebrate CAR Magazine's new look, we've teamed up with supercar club Ecurie25 to give one lucky reader the keys to an Audi R8 supercar for a long weekend, with tyres from Blackcircles.com as a runners-up prize. The R8 remains one of our favourite sports cars of the moment and picked up our coveted Performance Car of the Year gong in 2007. You'll be able to collect the keys to the V8 on a Friday morning from Ecurie25's London HQ and get to drive the 414bhp coupe all weekend until you hand back the keys to their base on Monday afternoon.