
Philip Young’s brave attempt to break the driving record for Cape Town to London in a Fiat Panda is getting closer to the off.


A US district court judge in California threw out a class-action lawsuit from owners of Toyota Prius and Lexus HS 250h hybrids who had filed a claim against the Japanese automaker over a 2010 recall involving the vehicles’ anti-lock braking system, Bloomberg News reports.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Audi and Toyota unveiled their self-driving concept cars.

New car sales have risen in 2012, with a 5.6 per cent overall rise, when compared to 2011. and the market seems to be weathering the Europe-wide economic crisis, but British buyers are downsizing.