‘Mesmerisingly Horrid’ Mirai Saloon Captures Hat-Trick for Japanese Auto Giant. The long-established ‘Car of The Year’ (COTY) Awards celebrate all that is best in modern car design and technology. The ‘Ewww’ Awards don’t.  Instead, they highlight the very worst that the automotive world throws at unsuspecting, gullible and just plain dumb consumers year after year. ‘Although it started a while back as just a bit of fun, it does have a very serious purpose’ says the respected UK ‘Autocar’ Magazine. ‘Without question, cars are...

German carmaker BMW is struggling to find new demographic groups to exploit – but may have found a radical solution. ‘We have now used the numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight for our main models ranges’ said a spokesman. ‘Obviously “nine” is out of the question, as it wouldn’t play well in our home market and people would take the mickey out of us in the UK and US’.  The bulk of BMW’s sales have traditionally come from its 3 and 5 Series cars – but now that there is also a 4 Series range the company is running out of...