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		<title>Women drivers are more honest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Research by a top insurance company has found that women are more likely to tell the truth when making an insurance claim.  The results show that men are twice as likely as women to lie when it comes to claiming.
Given the scenario that their car had been stolen and that they had forgotten to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topgear.co.uk/news/2007/03/16/women-drivers-are-more-honest/</link>
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		<title>F1 tyre markings revealed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bridgestone have confirmed that tyre markings that they will be using for their F1 tyres.  The softer of the two tyre types for each race will be marked with a white circle which is 3cm in diameter.  
Some of the teams are not happy about the time it has taken to release this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topgear.co.uk/news/2007/03/15/f1-tyre-markings-revealed/</link>
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		<title>Crash tests results on car bumpers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New crash tests carried out in America have shown that car bumpers are not protecting the important engine parts of the car in accidents.

Seventeen different cars, including Ford’s, Nissan’s, Toyota’s and Mitsubishi’s were put through a series of four crash tests.  These included four mph and six mph front and rear impact tests to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topgear.co.uk/news/2007/03/02/crash-tests-results-on-car-bumpers/</link>
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		<title>BP sells last UK refinery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BP has sold its last remaining refinery in the UK for $1.4 billion (£736 million), marking another break with the group&#8217;s illustrious past.
The Coryton refinery in Essex, which supplies petrol to forecourts across the South East of England, was bought today by the Swiss-based refiner Petroplus.
All 540 BP staff at the site will transfer to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topgear.co.uk/news/2007/02/01/bp-sells-last-uk-refinery/</link>
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		<title>Dramatic footage of Hammond&#8217;s dragster crash screened</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DRAMATIC footage of the high-speed crash which nearly claimed the life of Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was screened for the first time last night.
The 36-year-old had a remarkable escape when he crashed a jet-powered dragster travelling at 288mph while filming a stunt for the programme at Elvington airfield, near York, in September. Hammond suffered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topgear.co.uk/news/2007/01/29/dramatic-footage-of-hammonds-dragster-crash-screened/</link>
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		<title>Nissan Qashqai on delivery in UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nissan’s new UK designed, engineered and built QASHQAI crossover is now available for test drive and ordering at the company’s dealers with deliveries due to start March 1.  Business should be brisk if early interest from press and customers is anything to go by. 
Talking of press, the Nissan QASHQAI has already picked up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topgear.co.uk/news/2007/01/26/nissan-qashqai-on-delivery-in-uk/</link>
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		<title>Beached BMW bonanza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The beaching on the Devon coast at the weekend of the ship Napoli holed in gales off Cornwall on Friday - leading to a spectacular and dangerous rescue of the crew from a liferaft - has provided a bonanza for beach scavengers of automotive items.
Around 105 containers have come off the ship and the 40 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topgear.co.uk/news/2007/01/24/beached-bmw-bonanza/</link>
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		<title>UK&#8217;s best parking place is named</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best place to park in the UK is in an upmarket Birmingham shopping centre, according to a car park enthusiast.
Kevin Beresford, head of the Car Park Appreciation Society, was hired by the AA to test the best and worst places to park across the country. 
Mr Beresford, of Redditch, Worcs, said Birmingham&#8217;s Mailbox complex [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topgear.co.uk/news/2006/11/21/uks-best-parking-place-is-named/</link>
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		<title>James Bond&#8217;s car of choice may return to UK ownership in £500m private equity deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aston Martin, the luxury carmaker put up for sale by the US giant Ford, could return to British ownership, it emerged yesterday. 
The UK private equity groups Permira and Alchemy Partners were said to be preparing bids of up to £500m along with the US buyout firm Texas Pacific Group.
Aston Martin was put for sale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topgear.co.uk/news/2006/11/06/james-bonds-car-of-choice-may-return-to-uk-ownership-in-%c2%a3500m-private-equity-deal/</link>
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		<title>Morgan taps cult car status to survive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the sprawling Morgan car factory in central England, business is brisk.
Workers in navy blue overalls hunch over aluminium chassis and wooden frames of half-completed sports cars, the floor littered with wood shavings, the air punctured by the throaty roar of engines undergoing testing.
&#8220;Good British cars are lovingly remembered, but great British cars are still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.topgear.co.uk/news/2006/11/01/morgan-taps-cult-car-status-to-survive/</link>
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