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		<title>Vauxhall: is it MG-Rover all over again?</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/08/11/vauxhall-is-it-mg-rover-all-over-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s depressing to be reminded all over again today of the sad and shabby history of MG-Rover. Much more sad is that it looks dangerously likely that history might repeat itself with Vauxhall-Opel.
BMW unloaded MG-Rover in early 2000. It was looking at bids from venture capital firms including Apax and Alchemy. Both planned a slimming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1133&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BMW CS lives! Kind of&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lovely BMW CS four-door coupe isn’t dead yet. Or at least, its spirit lives on even though an actual production-car version of the CS concept was canned a few months back.
Foreman has been talking to senior BMW 7-Series engineers. They say that, just as all the other BMWs come in more than one bodystyle, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1123&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VW tucks into Porsche</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/07/23/vw-tucks-into-porsche/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Porsche is, after a titanic batttle, about to become a member of the VW Group. Last year Porsche tried to take over VW. VW struck back. This has been one of the great soap operas of industrial history.
The fight has encompassed money, power, glamour and a rift in one of Planet Automobile’s most high-profile families, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1110&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>101</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Red-lining the green Bentley</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just been out for an ‘engineering drive’ in a late prototype of the Bentley Supersports. The one Derek Bell drove at Goodwood. The development chief says it’s a Ferrari 599 rival. Well yes, it was a wet day on difficult Cheshire roads, and I don’t think a 599 would have kept up.
The Supersports is due [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1100&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mackems lead the electric charge</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/07/20/mackems-lead-the-electric-charge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[battery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electric vehicle]]></category>
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There’s something far more important behind the news that Nissan’s Sunderland plant is to lead the charge (ha ha) in battery manufacturing. In 18 months time, you’ll be able to buy a proper full-sized Nissan hatchback powered entirely by batteries.
The car itself will be unveiled in just a couple of weeks. It isn’t just a re-powered version [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1090&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vauxhall&#8217;s Astratrix driven</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/07/13/vauxhalls-astratrix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In among all the jiggery-pokery about Vauxhall’s new owners (Russian? Chinese? Italian? Belgian?) the company is still busy churning out new cars. Foreman has driven a prototype of this autumn’s Astra, and it’s a seriously good rival for the Focus or Golf.
Compare the design with the Insignia, and you can see the new-Vauxhall tune has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1074&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Driven: Porsche Panamera</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/29/driven-porsche-panamera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jaguar XKR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James May]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maserati Quattroporte]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
‘Jay, you look at the dials,’ I said to my passenger, ‘I’ve got other things to concentrate on.’ We were doing about 270km/h and rising fast.  

 ‘OK, 300,’ came the calm reply a few seconds later as the digital speedo rolled over the magic number. That’s 186mph in our money, and I was happy to back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1048&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Koenigsaab is born</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/16/koenigsaab-is-born/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Koenigsegg]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until this morning I couldn’t reliably spell Koenigsegg. It was a little company of fewer than 50 employees making fewer than 20 cars a year. Now it has effectively taken over Saab.
Accepted wisdom is that to compete long-term, smallish car companies (of which Saab is one) need to be in the hands of bigger car [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1026&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vauxhall-Opel gets its new owner</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/06/01/vauxhall-opel-gets-its-new-owner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, Foreman called it wrong. I thought Fiat would get control of Vauxhall and Opel, but the giant Canadian car-components-maker Magna won. I was looking at it from an automotive point of view, and the result was skewed by politics.
Once it was clear Opel-Vauxhall’s American parent GM started sliding towards today’s bankruptcy, GM had to cast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=1001&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LF-A is go for Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://foreman.blogs.topgear.com/2009/05/28/lf-a-is-go-for-tokyo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 09:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Horrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good grief. The endless wait for the world’s teasingest supercar is finally… nearly… over. The 500bhp Lexus LF-A will arrive at this October’s Tokyo show. That’s almost four years since they showed the concept.
The car will be special and rare. It has a 4.9-litre naturally-aspirated V10 making a mighty 500bhp at dizzying rpms. The transmission [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=foreman.blogs.topgear.com&blog=4140443&post=988&subd=bbcforeman&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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