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Car tech briefs: Toyota, Fiat, Volvo

Toyota has expanded its family of digital crash test dummies to include a 153cm tall female and a 189cm male. The new THUMS (Total HUman Model for Safety) join a 179cm, average build male. Two versions of each dummy have … Continue reading

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Chris Bangle heading back to Fiat?

Chris Bangle – the enfant terrible of car design – is rumoured to be picking up his sketch pad again after leaving BMW early last year. Bangle left a super-controversial legacy at BMW – so controversial in fact that there … Continue reading

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Special-edition Mito for Maserati

Maserati has teamed up with Alfa Romeo to create 100 special-edition Mitos. The limited run will be dispatched to Maserati dealers across Europe to be used as courtesy cars.

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Fiat 500 goes pink

“It’s the limited edition Fiat 500 that customers have been asking for ever since the popular city car was launched in 2008 – the 500 Pink has arrived.” Yes, that’s right, Fiat says a limited run of 500 pink Fiat … Continue reading

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Abarth 500: Rate it on the Auto Trader Cool-o-meter

Here is the Abarth 500 – the tuned version of Fiat’s prettiest model. It has a 1.4-litre turbocharged engine with 135bhp (or 160bhp if you add the esseesse kit) and dogged determination to stick the tarmac through any given bend. … Continue reading

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Cars we’re driving in January

The Christmas tree is down and the mince pies have all been turned to crumbs, but we’re not sad because January sees the launch of some brilliant new cars. Here’s what we’ll be driving on Auto Trader this month:

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Are you buying a car in January?

January will see a bundle of hot new superminis unleashed onto UK roads – including the Alfa Romeo Mito, Ford Ka and Fiat 500 Abarth. With plenty of car deals, low petrol prices and postponed tax increases, 2009 is a … Continue reading

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MPH mayhem, American muscle and a hot new Mini: the week in brief

In celebrity news this week, Auto Trader readers voted for their favourite Jeremy Clarkson quote, while we brought you a full report on the car-carnage festival of MPH ’07. And Auto Trader caught up with Strictly Come Dancing star and … Continue reading

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