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City Concours complete car list unveiled

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In just under 48 hours some of the rarest cars in history will ascend on the City of London to showcase their beauty and craftmenship at the City Concours. The automotive garden party being held at The Barbican have now revealed their full car list, listing the model of the car, year of manufacture and its category.

As you would expect their arecome outstanding vehicles including classics, modern, bespoke as well as a host of luxury brands showcasing their wares including watches, art and champagne. The complete list of cars attending the City Concourse is quite something representing car culture and car heritage at its finest.

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Goodwood Revival To Celebrate 1957 British GP

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Goowood Revival 2017

Next month Goodwood celebrates it's 20th and among this years festivities the event will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the famous 1957 British Grand Prix at Aintree. This is in addition to a no. of other celebrations being held at the 2017 Goodwood revival.

This momentous occasion will be one you won't want to miss, this memorable day back in 1957 saw the British racing heroes Toni Brooks and Stirling Moss share a Toni

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Bonhams Motor Cars and Automobilia FOS17

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Whilst experiencing the high life at Goodwood The Festival of Speed 2017 and familiarising ourselves with what was on display, we headed to the offering by famed London & New York Auctioneers, and such is the norm at such prestigious events, the auction house offered a collection of Motoring Automobilia and collectable Motor Cars for sale by one of the big houses, on this occasion offered by Bonhams of London.  This collection certainly didn't disappoint, with lots in excess of £10,000,000 on display.
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Autosport International 2018 main feature Ferrari

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Ferrari Autosport 2018

Europe's leading pre-season motorsport show Autosport International 2018 have just announced that Ferrari is to be their main feature.

The show runs from the 11th to 14th January annually at the Birmingham NEC in the UK, the new exciting centrepiece will showcase Ferrari lineage from Formula One through to the latest sports cars courtesy of Corse Clienti Ferrari's exclusive client racing program.

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Springing into the auto year

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It's Spring already, the clocks have gone back and the automotive world is coming to life, as you can see we've been busy reviewing cars as well lining up some of the newest models.

We've lots planned in the coming months including some rather cool automotive events including The Commercial Vehicle Show, London Concours and some invite only events one being Goblin Garage.

 

For more on these events and what the team are getting upto visit our Planet Auto Youtube channel for LIVE streams and car video content.

 

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What a year for Planet Auto, what's coming up?

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That's right it's coming upto to the end of year, 1 month left if you remember we set a target of 1000 subscribers on our channel for EOY.

Well, we achieved our goal 1 month and 1 week before target, and that is thanks to you guys, since then in the last week we have hit 1056, it's flying.

 

Here are a few of our stats, 

Monthly minutes watched currently 209.8K 

Monthly views 50k

 

Now we're over the 1k we are really going to boost our content delievery, with a minimum of 3 videos being published every week on https://www.youtube.com/c/planetautouk 

We've lots coming up in the new year, and for December we are reviewing a 2 Ford models, a Volvo and a Skoda.  

 

This week we have the 9 Speed Honda Civic, Abarth 124 GT and Mazda CX-5 reviews being published.

 

2019 is going to be immense, more drone footage, more live events, more cars and more events.

 

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Festival of Speed Drivers list 2017

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Festival of Speed Drivers list 2017

It's literally days away till we be going live from Goodwood Park for the 'Festival Of Speed', what a celebration it's going to with unveils from Jaguar, Mclaren and that's just the ones we know about, and of course the 70th anniversary of Ferrari. Well here's the vital informaion you've been waiting for who' driving what on the Goodwood hill climb, see you guys there.

Click here to view a PDF of the Drivers and the cars they will be racing on the Festival Of Speed Hillclimb  

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PSA and FCA Merger talks underway - LATEST Merger 50/50 going ahead

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Big Automotive news today, the possibility of a massive merger combing the forces Fiat Chrysler Automobiles or FCA and PSA Groupe. That's right, talks are being are held again with the possibility of merger talks with PSA who own Citroen, Peugeot, DS and recently acquired Vauxhall - Opel know, these car companies have been in talks over the last few months previously.

 

FCA has been trying to grow the empire and have held talks with Renault Groupe, talks broke down when neither of the firms could reach an agreement.

 
This merger possibility would build a car giant with a worth of around £40 billiion, a combo of many of world’s biggest car brands. Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Jeep, Maserati, Lancia, Ram, Chrysler - while Groupe PSA who have recently upped their game with vehicles like the
 The French company owns Citroën, DS, Peugeot and Vauxhall-Opel.
 
 
PSA have also expressed interest in JLR, Jaguar Land Rover and also previously held talks with FCA. Carlos Tavares PSA Boss lead the buy of Vauxhall Opel, and is looking to expand the company.
 

PSA issued a statement this morning saying: “Following recent reports on a possible business combination between Groupe PSA and FCA Group, Groupe PSA confirms there are ongoing discussions aimed at creating one of the world’s leading automotive groups.

 

The merger has been approved and FCA and PSA are going in on a 50/50. It'll be interesting to see how this evolves the automotive giant. 

 

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