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The whistle has been blown on the first qualifying round of the Lexus National Schools Rugby Tournament, with 10 teams securing a place in next year’s finals.

This year’s Children in Need fundraising activities got off to a flying start when a 195mph Bentley Continental GTC went under the hammer for £240,000.

The Audi R8 LMS will return to Australia as the title defender.

Volkswagen Group Research together with the German Post Office (‘Deutsche Post AG’) as well as the University of Art at Braunschweig – formed a think tank on future transport and mobility issues.

Bosch employees have raised over £60,000 for BBC Children in Need through various fundraising activities organised across the company’s 37 sites in the UK.

It has so far been difficult to justify the use of electric light commercial vehicles in financial terms, thanks to a combination of high front-end prices, short range and a dearth of information about predicted residual values.

The launch of satellites for Europe’s €20 billion (£17bn) global navigation satellite system may have gone unnoticed by most fleet operators, but experts say the new, highly accurate global positioning service will change the operating landscape for fleets.

Government plans to increase the speed limit from 70 to 80mph have been thrown into doubt following the tragic accident on the M5 which left seven people dead and 51 injured.

Volvo Car UK has welcomed the announcement from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) which means its new V60 Plug-in Hybrid will be classed as a ‘hybrid' for tax purposes when it arrives next year.

With a 3p per litre increase in fuel prices still set for January and another rise pencilled in for August, fleet managers should continue to focus on squeezing fuel costs as hard as possible, says Mycompanyfleet.

Evida Power, a leading designer and manufacturer of lithium-ion battery packs for electric vehicles (EVs), has announced the appointment of David Roberts as executive chairman of the Board.

An additional £10 million of grant funding is to be made available to research, develop and demonstrate technologies that will achieve significant cuts in carbon emissions from road transport, following a government decision to provide supplementary finance through the Technology Strategy Board.

The theme for Road Safety Week 2011 is "Too young to die".

In 2012, the Audi R8 LMS ultra will succeed the successful R8 LMS GT3 sports car with which R8 LMS customers have won 115 races and 12 national and international titles in the space of just three years.

Honda (UK) and its official Buildbase Honda off-road racing team – managed by three-times world champion Dave Thorpe – have teamed up to create an exclusive offer for young motocross competitors with their purchase of a new Honda CRF150RB.

McLaren Group chairman Ron Dennis’s view for the future of the Group.

Maserati and Poltrona Frau celebrate the 10th Anniversary of their partnership and their shared passion for design and quality

New images and video containing the first official audio of Nissan Juke-R's beating heart – its 480bhp, 3.8-litre engine – have been released ahead of official testing later this month.

Land Rover is taking over Euston Station in a pioneering marketing campaign for the all-new Range Rover Evoque.

An electric sports car concept is under development at Infiniti and set to emerge at the Geneva Auto Show in March 2012.

Nissan was crowned the low-carbon car king at an awards ceremony which saw a double win for the company, continuing the success for its multi-award winning LEAF 100% electric vehicle.

Perodua are delighted to offer interest free finance to customers purchasing a new Myvi SXI between now and the end of December.

Honda unveiled the all-new 2013 Fit EV at the Los Angeles Auto Show and announced plans to begin leasing the 123 city-mile per charge (76 mile range combined adjusted city/highway)1 battery electric commuter vehicle in the U.S in summer 2012.

ATS Euromaster has won back a significant sole-supplier agreement with Scotland’s largest independent wine and spirit wholesaler, Wallaces Express, which operates 50 cars and 70 commercial vehicles.

Paragon has opened the newly expanded and refurbished Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) handover site at Swallowfield Farm in Warwickshire – the dedicated handover site for all Paragon managed JLR company vehicles.

A new facility has just been launched by comparecontracthire.com that enables SMEs to choose the initial payment terms they require. Prices can now be compared on three, six and 12 rentals in advance.

Arqiva has extended its vehicle rental agreement with the rental management division of the Leasedrive Group for a further two years.

Cartwright has just won an order for 123 bodies from fleet management company VMS (Fleet Management) Ltd for their customer Dixons Retail.

Avis UK has announced it is now preferred car rental partner to Advantage Business Travel, following the three year renewal of its longstanding partnership.

The UK automotive industry could miss out unless the Government does more to attract manufacturers to invest.