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Rock band The Enemy won the Best New Band award at last night’s NME Shockwave Awards.
Accepting the award, frontman Tom Clarke said: “Do you know where I think it would look good? In the back of a Vauxhall Nova.
“It would look great next to a little Churchill dog with the nodding head. It would look [...]

Keep your eyes open for the new Auto Trader television advert. It’ll be on tonight during “Trial and Retribution” which is on ITV1 at 9pm - and it’s on the Auto Trader website now.
Speaking of adverts, some of us went to the cinema last night to see “There Will Be Blood”. At least five of [...]

It’s almost show time in Geneva as the car world descends in time for Europe’s most important motor show.
The show opens its doors March 6, and Auto Trader will be there to report on all the news from the event, so be sure to check back.
Exciting cars including the poster-pin-up Alfa Romeo 8C Spider and [...]

Michael Schumacher is testing for Ferrari today as the new F1 season is just three weeks away.
It’s not the first time he’s come back from retirement to sample the latest Formula 1 car from Ferrari.
Is he missing the sport? Does he regret quitting in 2006? Would you like to see him make a comeback?

Ford announced the new-look Fiesta last week – the sixth generation model of their successful supermini.
Its curved styling bears striking resemblance to the Verve Concept cars which were shown at last year’s Frankfurt motor show.

It’s just ten days until the first cars with ‘08’ prefix number plates go on sale.
The Ford Focus, Fiat 500, Mazda 6, BMW 1 Series Coupe, Volkswagen Tiguan and Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion are all fresh in showrooms and available with the latest ‘08’ plate.
Have you ordered a new ‘08’ plate car? Did you buy a [...]

We’ve refreshed and re-organised the Auto Trader home page and we’re keen to get your feedback.
Among the changes you’ll find a brand new logo, clearer links to information about buying and selling new and used cars and more changes in line with our aim of making the world of cars easy. We will start promoting [...]

 
Want to build your own McLaren F1 car?
You’ll need 956,000 matchsticks, 1,686 tubes of glue and six years.
Have you spotted any other pictures of cars made from unusual thing? Post your links below or email pictures to editorial@autotrader.co.uk.

BMW, who produces the X5 SUV and several powerful sports cars, is not the first car company you’d think of as being ‘green’.

Valentines Day is upon us – and to celebrate we’ve rounded up the hottest cars to fall in love with.