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One Lap of the Web: Car stuff you may have missed

We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there's more out there than we'd ever be able to cover, here's our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about. -- Speedhunters brings us a gorgeous photo essay of cars on the N

Schools Award and CDN Design Schools League Table

Schools as well as students are being recognized in this year's CDN-Interior Motives Student Design Awards, just launched, with a special award being introduced for the school whose students have the most success in the competition. CDN acknowledges that great teaching, as well as raw student talent, is needed to shape the work of the next generation of car designers. So along with the student finalists in 2012 will come finalist schools, as measured by the success of their students in getting to the shortlist stage of the competition, in becoming category finalists, or in winning an award or becoming overall winner.

Vauxhall Corsa Nurburgring Edition (2011) first pictures

Vauxhall has rummaged around the kitchen cupboard and poured a healthy dollop of chilli into the mix for its new Corsa VXR Nürburgring Edition. It's our first look at the new special edition Corsa hot hatch, which goes on sale in May 2011. Vauxhall Corsa VXR Nürburgring Edition: the lowdown Under bonnet lies a pumped version of the 1.6 petrol turbo found in the regular Corsa VXR.