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Ford has announced a new investment programme at its high-tech Bridgend engine plant in Wales to produce next generation low CO2 1.6-litre, four-cylinder petrol engines.

VED rates are likely to become as influential on consumer used car choice as fuel economy and insurance costs.

When a car is scrapped, 85 per cent of it can be recycled or re-used. That's according to figures collated by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR).

Over the last ten years, significant and sustained progress has been made in cutting CO2 emissions from new cars. Among comprehensive figures in SMMT’s latest CO2 report is the headline that average CO2 has fallen 13% since 1997. Publication of the seventh annual report also reinforces the industry’s drive towards open and honest reporting on sustainability measures.

Diesel-powered cars took a 45.3 per cent share of the November market, bettering the 45 per cent rate of December 2005, when sales were boosted by regulatory tax changes.

The SMMT has just published the UK motor industry's eighth annual Sustainability Report, and it reveals how the industry has improved its performance on a range of environmental indicators.

The SMMT has just published the UK motor industry's eighth annual Sustainability Report, and it reveals how the industry has improved its performance on a range of environmental indicators

Tracking the evolution of a Ford Fiesta as it has developed across five generations reveals a 98 per cent cut in air quality emissions. That's just one example of a series of emission and safety improvements published in an SMMT report called The Evolution of the Car.

The SMMT’s latest figures for new car registrations for September shows that registrations of alternatively-fuelled vehicles jumped 82.1 per cent (for year-to-date). Alternatively-fuelled means pure electric, petrol-electric hybrid, and cars running on E85 bioethano

The Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT) has published its annual report focusing on CO2 and the new car market. At a launch event in central London, stakeholders from industry, government, NGOs and the media heard about progress in cutting CO2 and challenges for the industry going forward.