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Young driver crashes father’s Audi TT into a house in Lowestoft, UK – BBC

Audi TT crashes into house<
A family in a quiet Long Meadow Walk, in Lowestoft, UK woke up to a quite a big surprise this past Sunday morning around 1.30am when they heard a big crash and saw part of a red Audi TT partly inside their home.

UK new car sales news for 2012


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.

Subaru: End of an era in the UK


Subaru has confirmed that it has imported its last WRX STI and Impreza into the UK, in order to concentrate on its range of SUVs – the XV, Outback and Forester – and the BRZ sports car. Supplies of the WRX are expected to dry up by the end of spring 2013.

Audi SQ5 confirmed for spring release in the UK

The heart of the SQ5’s monster pace is its 3.0-litre bi-turbo TDI engine, which delivers 313PS (309bhp) at 3900-4500rpm and 650Nm (497lb ft) at 1450-2800rpm. Performance figures are interesting – 0-62mph in 5.1 seconds and a governed 155mph maximum speed. Timing and lift of the intake camshafts, the pistons, their oil-jet cooling and the piston pins have also been specially designed to cope with the additional power.

Kia Picanto Long Term Test: Nice design, shame about the consumption


If the Picanto was a footballer, it would be an agile and surprisingly stylish player that impresses the fans – and only the manager would know about the drink problem.Anyone who drives one in London must feel a twinge of conscience every time they drive a congestion-charge free Picanto into the central area. It has an official CO2 figure of 99 g/km (and 67.3 mpg), but our example has managed 39.6 mpg overall, and rather less than that in town. 39.6 mpg in petrol car equates to 167 g/km of CO2, which is no-one’s idea of environmental awareness.