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Zoe

Zoe has written 224 posts for European Motor News

NO TRADE-IN REQUIRED FOR MAZDA’S POST SCRAPPAGE SCHEME

Now that the Government scrappage fund has come to an end, each manufacturer is approaching the market in a different way with a number of complex scrappage schemes that rely on an old vehicle to exchange or scrap.

GT ACADEMY 2010 WINNERS MAKE THEIR RACING DEBUT AT SNETTERTON

PlayStation® and Nissan’s quest to turn a virtual driver into a real one took another step forward this weekend, when Luca Lorenzini from Italy and Jordan Tresson from France took to the track at the Snetterton circuit in a pair of identical Nissan 370Z cars.

SECOND AND EIGHTH FASTEST TIMES FOR STONER AND HAYDEN ON OPENING NIGHT OF QATAR TEST

Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden ended the first of two nights of testing in Qatar with the second and eighth fastest times respectively, the Ducati Marlboro Team riders working throughout a sticky evening to get their GP10 machines to grips with a particularly slippery track surface.

SARAH GOES TO GREAT HEIGHTS FOR BEN

Sarah Sillars, Executive Chair of the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI), and her daughter Rachael have started training to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for BEN.

FORD READIES £1.5 BILLION GREEN INVESTMENT IN UK RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION

Ford is preparing to invest £1.5 billion in its four UK facilities over the next five years after securing a £360 million Government loan guarantee.

THE RENAULT-NISSAN ALLIANCE INAUGURATES PLANT IN CHENNAI, INDIA

First dedicated Alliance global plant; production capacity of up to 400,000 units

STATEMENT BY AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO. INC. REGARDING VSA MODULATOR RECALL

American Honda has announced the following statement today. The affected models are not sold in Europe. European customers should be reassured that their cars are not affected by this recall.

SPENCER CONWAY – A CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF AFRICA BY MOTORBIKE

Spencer Conway’s ‘Circumnavigation of Africa by Motorbike’- reported in the press worldwide – is nothing short of remarkable.

VOLKSWAGEN – HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY TO THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR VAN

Production of the Volkswagen Transporter van officially started in March 1950 and during the 60 years since then it has become one of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’ best-selling models globally, the number one imported van in the UK as well as one of the most iconic and popular vans in the world.

TOYOTA ON COURSE WITH RECALL PROGRAMME

Just one month on from the launch of Toyota’s accelerator recall campaign, work has been completed on more than half – 90,000-plus – of the cars that have been identified as requiring attention.