Manchester United striker Carlos Tevez has had his 140,000-pounds ($205,300) car seized after he failed to provide a valid UK driving licence.
High interest rates and lack of retail finance, coupled with rising input costs, threw plans out of gear for automakers and in November the industry saw the worst ever monthly vehicle sales with a decline of 17.98 per cent.
Premier League leaders Liverpool stumbled again at home and needed two Steven Gerrard goals to salvage a draw with Hull City. Luckily for the leaders two of their title rivals also dropped points.
Motor racing ace Karun Chandhok has become the first Indian to be invited to join the British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC). The BRDC is the world most elite and prestigious club with the members including the only a select few International drivers from outside of Britain.
Come January and Scuderia 250, the Middle East's first exclusive supercar club, will offer its members the opportunity to drive all kinds of luxury cars from the latest models of Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bentley and Aston Martin to good-old classics like the Rolls Royce, Porsche, Maserati, Mercedes and Maclaren. The club will offer a limited number of memberships in both the individual and corporate categories.
The models will carry a price tag of Rs 1.25 crore to Rs 3 crore, the most expensive in the company's line-up, and will be custom ordered and delivered directly from Germany. Delivery time may take two or three months depending on what the customer chooses.
Ontario Attorney-General Chris Bentley said the murder of 45-year old Suja John, 45, and her mother Saramma Varghese, allegedly by a sex-offender out on bail, was "a very tragic case."
Arsenal also suffered a shock defeat when they went down 2-1 at Stoke City and Hull City came from 1-4 down to push Manchester United all the way before losing 4-3 at Old Trafford, in the English Premier League.
Tottenham Hotspur produced their first Premier League victory of the season on Sunday as the club welcomed new manager Harry Redknapp with open arms following an awful start to the season that sees them bottom of the table. Spurs comfortably beat Bolton Wanderers 2-0 at White Hart Lane with goals in each half from striker Roman Pavlyuchenko and his replacement Darren Bent from the penalty spot.
Tottenham Hotspur sacked manager Juande Ramos on Saturday and Portsmouth's Harry Redknapp said he would be taking charge of the English Premier League team.
JLR sees job cut if the situation does not improve.
The effect of the subprime crisis that began to be felt around early 2007 hasn't affected domestic sales of super luxury cars priced between Rs 1 and 3 crore. Super luxury car manufacturers such as UK's Bentley grew by 20 per cent last year and expect to clock similar growth in the country this year.
On the radar are also a set of 'Hummers', a favourite of certain filmstars that were also allegedly imported through the same modus operandi.
The report says Tata Motors, JLR's new owners, will produce 200-300 less cars by the end of the year. That would be equal to about a week's worth of production for the Jaguar models of XJ and XK.
After writing and directing the hugely popular movie about a bunch of male strippers, Simon Beaufoy, directed the Anil Kapoor starrer Slumdog Millionaire. He recounts how he went about it and how India continues to amaze him.
England hope to put behind their gloomy recent experiences against Croatia when they travel to Zagreb on Wednesday for an early key World Cup qualifier. Croatia beat England twice in the Euro 2008 qualifiers, costing them a place in June's finals in Switzerland and Austria and coach Steve McLaren his job.
More than a decade after the iconic race car brand Jaguar was forced to pull out from the gruelling 24-hour Le Mans race, the new owner, the Rs 16,400-crore Tata Motors, is considering a plan to put the brand back on the racing track.
Tara Suri, 17, a high school junior who has been helping orphaned children, has won the grand prize in the Teen Hero Awards programme of the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens. Tara, a Scarsdale, New York, resident, began volunteering when she was 13, when she founded Helping Orphans Pursue Education. Through the organisation, she has helped provide children at orphanages in India and Sudan with access to shelter, education, health care, and other daily necessities.
K K Swamy is between jobs. After spending a little over a decade running Toyota Kirloskar Motors as its deputy managing director, he made a quiet exit a month ago to move to Volkswagen India as its first managing director. He is moving lock, stock and barrel from Bangalore to Pune, where he is set to take charge on July 21.
Jermain Defoe scored twice to lift England to a 3-0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago in a one-sided friendly.
The auto sector is doing well in India, despite stock market meltdown, emerging signals of industrial slowdown and rising costs.
Six Indian-American high school juniors and 19 others, all named 'Leaders of Tomorrow', will discuss ways to heal the ills faced by society at a meeting later this month on the Bentley College campus at Waltham, Massachusetts. The students are winners of the 2008 Tomorrow 25, an international leadership competition for high school juniors organised by Bentley College, in cooperation with Time magazine.
David Beckham showed he could still play a role for England when he won his 100th cap in a 1-0 defeat to France in a friendly on Wednesday. The LA Galaxy midfielder looked a little rusty at times but gave a typically hard-working performance at the Stade de France and was involved in much of England's attacking play before being replaced by David Bentley in the 63rd minute.
Franck Ribery scored from a penalty as France beat England 1-0 in David Beckham's 100th appearance for his country at the Stade de France on Wednesday. The 32-year-old Beckham started the match to become only the fifth English player in 136 years of international soccer to achieve a century of appearances for his country.
Roque Santa Cruz scored a brace as Blackburn Rovers held Manchester City to a 2-2 draw in the EPL.
Some of the world's richest people are the world's most frugal people.
Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen stitch plans for country-specific mall car models. With India increasingly becoming the production and sales hub for all major car manufacturers, international giants like Honda, Toyota and Volkswagen are pulling out their drawing boards for an all-new India-specific car model.
Striker Wayne Rooney injured an ankle in training on Friday and will miss England's friendly against Austria next week and their Euro 2008 qualifier against Croatia on Nov. 21. Although Rooney will miss England's next two games, former skipper David Beckham is set to win his 98th and 99th caps after being recalled to Steve McClaren's squad on Friday after injury.
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India imposes over 100 per cent duty on imported vehicles and the likes of American cult bike maker Harley Davidson had made noises in the past asking to bring down the rates.
The luxury convertible Bentley Azure is priced at Rs 3.8 crore or Rs 38 million ($936,906).
Multimillion-dollar price tags are springing up. And not just for Porn.com.
Bangalore-based company aims to raise around Rs 300 crore
Also rejoining the squad are Michael Owen and Joe Cole.
Michael Owen failed to score but completed another 90 minutes of his comeback from injury as he helped England B beat Albania 3-1 on Friday.
Newly flush customers in China are buying high-end cars with all the extras. That's good news for foreign automakers facing tighter margins.
Agarwal's is a classic story of a small trader becoming metal king. The secret, he says, lies in believing in himself and in the country's potential.
The famed Harley Davidson's upper-end model will come for over Rs 20 lakh (Rs 2 million) in India, powered by a 1584 cc engine that will give around 16 km to a litre.
The company also plans to roll out its new GT Convertible in India early next month to be tagged at about Rs 2.2 crore (Rs 22 million), with only five cars being allocated.
As daunting as the prospect of public scrutiny and taxman inquisition is, India's wealthy seem to have a steadily expanding list of top-dollar extravagances.
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