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Car review: Peugeot 508

03.09.11

With thousands of plates released each year some are bound to slip beneath the DVLA's censorious radar – especially those that are, shall we say, a little more subtle than Alan's. The Peugeot 508 that I've been driving this week wouldn't stoop to anything so vulgar, its number – A6 PEU – being little more than a genteel hint at its parentage. But refined, no. Yet that is exactly what the 508 is. It's a posh Peugeot. On the whole, the 508, and the people who'll be buying it, won't have much patience for vanity plates. National Numbers, a UK plate dealer, recently attended an auction in Harrogate where there was a lot of interest over the seemingly innocuous X351 ARO. He logged on to the DVLA's website where the personalised plate BO11 LUX caught his eye. But the DVLA doesn't share Alan's sense of fun and charged him with "causing offence". Last month, Alan Clarke, a 49-year-old company director from Chesterfield, decided his Range Rover needed something to lift it out of the...

Source: The Guardian

Lamborghini build the last Murcielago

by yellowwheels

The “end of production“ of the Murciélago was celebrated in the factory on November 5, 2010, with a special exhibition of the most iconic V12 cars of Lamborghini’s history, followed by a parade in Sant’Agata Bolognese. At the headquarters of the badge bearing the sign of the bull in Sant’Agata Bolognese, the last Murciélago left the production line on May 11, 2010 – headed to a Swiss customer. This makes the Murciélago not only by far the most-produced Lamborghini twelve-cylinder of all time, but also one of the world’s most successful super sports cars. One of the most successful super sports cars of all time takes a bow – the last Murciélago to be produced bears the number 4,099....

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