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Scania has launched the Golden Griffin Limited Edition to celebrate its UK subsidiary’s 50th birthday. Appropriately, just 50 examples of the V8-powered golden jubilee model are going to be built and they’ll all feature a numbered plaque, gold paintwork and a choice of two graphics designs.

Team M-Sport Bentley has chosen its driver squad for 2014.

Competing in this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship will be a pair of Toyota TS040 Hybrid prototypes that each boasts 986 bhp (736 kW / 1,000 PS).

Mitsubishi is bringing the Lancer Evolution X back to the UK, albeit in extremely limited numbers. Indeed, just 40 examples of the new FQ-440 MR special edition are going to be built.

Next year’s Dakar Rally is going to follow a vast loop that begins and ends in Buenos Aires.

With their extra stability and better ride comfort, trikes like the new Yamaha Tricity are going to have a particular appeal to anybody who feels nervous about riding a normal scooter.

There aren’t too many two-seat roadsters that will compete directly with the new Porsche Boxster GTS .

When developing quicker incarnations of the Boxster and Cayman, one of Porsche’s objectives must have been to ensure that its new GTS models wouldn’t encroach too much on the 911’s territory.

Cadillac has announced the arrival of the Crimson Sport Edition, a special version of its ATS compact four-door saloon.

Japanese manga and anime animation have been cited as inspirations for Honda’s peculiar new NM4 Vultus.

Following a fairly last-minute sponsorship deal with Telefónica Movistar, Yamaha Factory Racing has unveiled an updated colour scheme for its YZR-M1 MotoGP contenders.

This September will see the launch of a high-performance version of Mercedes-Benz’s new S-Class Coupé.

To coincide with the unveiling of the new Vauxhall / Opel Vivaro van, Renault has presented a first glimpse of its virtually identical Trafic.

This year’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship has the potential to be a cracking season.

This summer will see the pan-European launch of an all-new second-generation Vivaro van.

Following the recent launch of its new NT500 truck, Nissan has given the smaller NT400 Cabstar chassis-cab a comprehensive makeover.

AM General subsidiary Mobility Ventures has announced that it has begun manufacturing the MV-1 at its Indiana facility.

To celebrate Tom Sykes winning the 2013 FIM Superbike World Championship on his Ninja ZX-10R race bike, Kawasaki UK has created a street-legal tribute.

When the new 2014 BMW M4 DTM was first shown a couple of weeks ago, it wore the BMW M Performance Parts colours of Martin Tomczyk’s car.

Pick-ups don’t seem to have the best of images in the UK. That’s a particular problem for Isuzu because, apart from a range of large goods vehicles, the D-Max pick-up is the brand’s only offering here. So, to help stimulate some extra buyer interest, it has just announced the new Blade special edition.

Exactly six months before Beijing hosts the first event in the inaugural FIA Formula E Championship, series organisers have shown off the circuit’s design.

Datsun has released a sketch of its latest model ahead of the car’s official unveiling in Moscow on the 4th of April.

Following December’s DS3 by Benefit concept, Citroën has announced a couple of similarly-themed production special editions.

Ducati has unveiled the bike that Cal Crutchlow and Andrea Dovizioso will be riding in this year’s MotoGP championship. Called (for obvious reasons) the Desmosedici GP14, it’s a controversial contender.

With production due to begin next month ahead of the first customer deliveries in June, BMW has finalised the specifications for its new i8.

Although the new 4C Spider is currently being referred to as a ‘Design Preview’, Alfa Romeo has already confirmed that it’ll be entering production in early 2015.

At first glance the all-new Jeep Renegade looks rather strange with its angular styling and oversize boxy front end. That initial reaction seems to lessen soon enough though, which is just as well because Jeep has global ambitions for its small SUV.

Porsche last won the 24 Hours of Le Mans race outright in 1998. Sixteen years later, it’s attempting to repeat the feat - and achieve success in the other seven rounds of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship too - with the new 919 Hybrid.

Five years after it was first launched, Rolls-Royce has given the Ghost a mild facelift.

First seen in 1977, the Low Rider nameplate is making a return to the Harley-Davidson range after a five-year absence.

Take a Harley-Davidson Sportster, add some touring equipment and the result is the new SuperLow 1200T.

In the space of nine months BMW has created a whole family of 4 Series models. First came the Coupé , which was quickly followed by the Convertible . Then a Gran Coupé version appeared in February and now the X4 has arrived.

Honda reckons its new Civic Type R will be ‘a racing car for the road’. That would seem to be a fitting description, at least based on the motorsport-inspired bodywork modifications.

The top three finalists in the five 2014 World Car Awards categories have been revealed, following a second round of voting by a jury of sixty-nine international motoring journalists.

Beneath their skins the new Citroën C1 , Peugeot 108 and Toyota Aygo city cars are virtually identical. Nevertheless, the Japanese brand’s interpretation manages to look completely different compared to its two French counterparts.

Although rumours suggest that an all-new Transporter van is coming next year, Volkswagen has just created a concept version based on the current T5.

The new sporty ‘S’ model will be a welcome addition to the Vauxhall / Opel Adam city car range.

After two rounds of voting by a jury of 58 automotive journalists, the winner of the 2014 European Car of the Year has been named at the Geneva International Motor Show.

Fiat is giving its ever-popular 500 city car a series of revisions, including an innovative new instrument display.

The VisionC concept further blurs the differences between Volkswagen Group’s mainstream brands. That’s because as a large five-door coupé, the Škoda would be a slightly cheaper alternative to the Audi A5 Sportback and Volkswagen CC.

The new Lexus RC F coupé is being prepared to go GT3 racing. With the project entrusted to the brand’s Techno Craft subsidiary, the RC F GT3 will be made available to teams from next year.

BMW Motorsport has unveiled the new M4 silhouette race car that’ll be competing in this year’s Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters series.

In the UK, the top of the new car registrations league table doesn’t seem to alter much from one quarter to the next. Not that there’s anything wrong with the best-selling models, but obviously by definition they’re going to be a common sight.