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If you’re looking to give your Mercedes-Benz an added dose of performance, look no further than Brabus. The aftermarket tuning house specializes in customizing Daimler’s finest, and doesn’t stop at upgrading the engine and running gear, either. With packages like the iBusiness suite, Brabus will turn your S-Class, for example, into a 219-mph high-tech office on wheels. In other words, it’ll make it more like a private jet. But what if you want your jet to feel more like your customized Mercedes? Continue reading

Social media has become a valuable tool in most career sectors now, used both by job-seekers to track down opportunities, and recruiters to find great candidates. Recruitment experts in the automotive sector say that having a professional profile online – details about you which potential employers will like the look of – is just as important today as attending job fairs, fact-to-face networking, and sending out CVs to prospective companies.

Helen Westhead, marketing manager at automotive recruitment specialist Holt Recruitment says: “We have a Facebook presence and a Twitter feed and it’s clear that candidates for automotive jobs want to sign up to these. They un

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This isnt your 2013 BMW 1 Series. The U.S. isnt getting the hatchback, as BMW met less-than-rave reviews the last time the automaker sold a three-door in the States.

However, what you are looking at, if you squint a little, is the future of the BMW 1 Series coupe, a car that will surely be making its introduction in the U.S. within the next year or two. When it does, the BMW M135i will likely be on the U.S. roster in some form or another.

So what is it exactly, you ask. Unlike the 2012 BMW 1 Series M Coupe, the M135i is down 20 horsepower and slots into the Bavarian automakers new M Performance line of vehicles.

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Has Minis over-propagation of vehicles gotten so bad that were actually cheering when a new special isnt a silly two-seater or pseudo-crossover? The Mini John Cooper Works GP may be overpriced, but at least its got its heart in the right place.

It could do without the gauche aerokit, graphics and pizza-cutter wheels but the race spec suspension will only add to the Mini Cooper S JCWs already fantastic chassis. Up

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