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Citroen’s outstanding GT super car notion is to make its first appearance in UK on the 1.16-mile Goodwood Hill during this year’s Festival of Speed taking place between July 3 and 5.

This demo run is not the first time for the GT by Citroën as the car has finished laps of honour at both the Nürburgring and Le Mans 24-hour survival races.

The car had made its first appearance at the Paris Motor Show in October 2008. Citroën and Polyphony, architect of the driving replication game Gran Turismo5 on the PlayStation 3, revealed the imitation of the digital vehicle and impressed the crowd with its innovative looks and high-tech technology.

The size of the car is almost 5 metres long (4.96m), and is only a metre more in height which is 1.09m. It has a big coil of windscreen that falls into the roof and on the rear mobile surface.

PSA Peugeot-Citroen will cut over 11,000 jobs this year, with the 1st superfluousnesses in European factories outside France.

This is in addition to the loss of 2,700 jobs late last year. The company had incurred a loss of €343 million last year.
PSA’s plants in Slovakia and the Czech Republic are the first affected. The prioritizing of jobs in France has been helped by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s proclamation of a €3billion loan to PSA to guard French employees.

The European Commission also has sanctioned a €1.7million package to assist jobless auto industry workers in the Castilla y Leon and Aragon regions of Spain. Over 1,080 workers from12 firms have been struck in these deprived areas and unions have enforced to the EU under a scheme which funds for training of individuals made surplus.

Citroen is extending ‘Airdream+’ exceptional edition versions of its C3 and C4.

The C3 Airdream+ will have 1.4 HDI (70bhp) diesel engines which give 64.2mpg and 115g/km of carbon dioxide – and its equipment includes air conditioning, electric windows, rear parking sensors and 15-inch alloy wheels. The price starts from £10,995.
The C4 Airdream+ the price starting from £13,895 is based on the normal 5 door 1.6 HDI SX, with extra parking sensors.

Both cars will be available on a 0% APR which has to be repaid in 3 years and there is no-deposit finance deal.
Citroen is extending ‘Airdream+’ exceptional edition versions of its C3 and C4.

The C3 Airdream+ will have 1.4 HDI (70bhp) diesel engines which give 64.2mpg and 115g/km of carbon dioxide – and its equipment includes air conditioning, electric windows, rear parking sensors and 15-inch alloy wheels. The price starts from £10,995.
The C4 Airdream+ the price starting from £13,895 is based on the normal 5 door 1.6 HDI SX, with extra parking sensors.

Both cars will be available on a 0% APR which has to be repaid in 3 years and there is no-deposit finance deal.

For the 13th year in a row the Holden Commodore is the best-selling car Down Under.

Though the 51,093 cars sold were less when compared to the Commodore’s peak sales figure of ten years ago 94,642, it was still ahead of the next contender, the Toyota Corolla.
Sales were promoted by the addition of the Sport wagon estate to the array and discounts offered to the tune of $10,000 towards the end of the year.

Toyota, having its manufacturing facilities in Australia, was the best-selling brand by a wide margin. It sold nearly 239,000 vehicles, whereas Holden sold less than 130,500. Ford sold 104,715.

New car sales went down by just 3.6% on 2007′s results, with 1,012,164 vehicles sold. Fiat, Maserati, Ferrari, Volkswagen, Audi and Citroen all recorded large rises.

In Britain, the best-selling car is the Ford Focus and in the US it’s the F-150 pick-up truck.

Citroen is to bring a right-hand drive version of its Nemo Multispace mini-MPV to the UK next year.

The Nemo and Fiorino are produced in the same factory in Tofas, Turkey, in a joint venture between Fiat and Peugeot-Citroen.
Both the two-door van and the seated-passenger models, with sliding rear doors on both sides and full-length windows, have been developed on a version of the Fiat Panda’s underpinnings, so they should be car-like to drive and reasonably refined.

Engines for the Nemo Multispace are the Fiat 1.4 petrol (73bhp) and 1.3 Multijet diesel (75bhp); the diesel’s good for almost 63mpg and the petrol for over 40mpg.

Starting price of under £10,000 – to draw distance between it and the larger C3 Picasso, which will also go on sale in February.
Citroen’s third new people-carrier, also on sale in February, is a seven-seat version of the popular Berlingo Multispace.

Minor fine-tunes to the titling are projected to harmonize the looks of the newly reorganized C2. New wheels and trims and interior of the C1 get all-new covering and materials.
Citroen is also predicting better fuel economy and lower CO2 discharges. The 1.0i 68hp petrol version lets out 106g/km of carbon dioxide, which constitutes a decrease of 2.7% on the present model. The mean fuel consumption is fuel 62.8mpg, which is 2.1% betterment.

The new-look C1 will be on sale early in 2009 when further details and prices will be announced.

roen’s new baby MPV, the C3 Picasso, predicts class-leading space.

With its dimensions of 4.08m long, 1.73m wide and 1.62m tall, it integrates a cube-like body shape and a number of clever mechanisms in a bid to maximize interior capacity.

Either boot volume or rear legroom can be modified by slipping the split-folding rear seats back or forth, or these seats can also be closed away to form a flat load surface.
The cabin is 1.66m long and it is one of the lengthiest in its class – and the 500-litre boot can be elaborated to 1,506 liters with the rear seats closed down. The C3 Picasso also features an alterable boot floor which can be placed at two different levels.
Petrol engines on offer are the VTi 95 and VTi 120, developed in partnership with BMW, or alternatively, there are the HDi 90 and HDi 110 diesels.