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The Tata Nano diesel has been spied testing (once again) in Pune. The car has been spotted on testing in Pune and Bengaluru in both the CNG and diesel variants. CarWale had exclusively revealed to you last month that production of the diesel Nano will begin next February and that it will feature certain cost cutting measures like a plastic fuel tank.

Aston Martin has unveiled the CC100 speedster concept car as a part of centenary celebrations. The two-seat race car has been designed on the British sportscar makers DBR1 Le Mans Race car that won the Iconic French race in 1959. It has a classic shape but has been given modern design cues, engine and underpinnings. 

The facelifted 2014 BMW 5 Series has been revealed. The car has already been spotted quite a few times while testing and features mostly cosmetic changes both inside and outside. The range will now also get a base diesel variant called the 518d. 

IDBI Bank and passenger car business unit of International Cars & Motors Limited (ICML) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for providing Auto Finance to customers of ICML. The MoU was signed by Aloke Sengupta, CGM - Personal Banking Group - North, IDBI Bank Ltd and Akshay Sangwan, CEO, ICML.

Honda has announced that it will return to Formula 1 racing in 2015 as an engine supplier to the McLaren team reviving a 20-year-old partnership that saw drivers like the great Ayrton Senna and Alain ’The Doctor’ Prost romp to multiple titles in the early 1990s.   

The stars from the upcoming move Fukrey have decided to celebrate the Fukra spirit of Delhi by holding a contest for all the Delhi-ites along with the addition of a Nano- Fukrey app on Facebook.

The upcoming BMW 2 Series Coupe has been spied virtually undisguised while being shipped off for what is believed to be an ad shoot somewhere in Europe. The 2 Series Coupe is expected to replace 1 Series range of vehicles except in the hatchback and GT variants. The car that has been spied here is believed to be the M235i variant. 

Skoda may soon stop selling their Fabia hatchback for the Indian market. The company is believed to have taken this decision due to the fact that they have been incurring huge losses on the production of each car. According to some reports, the company has been been losing around Rs 1.5 lakh on each Fabia sold and the main problem they have been facing with the vehicle is the level of localisation in the production process.

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the 2014 S-Class luxury sedan at an event in Germany. The flagship sedan from the German automaker has been at the forefront of automotive technology for the last 58 years and is a glimpse of what will be in your car in the next decade or so. Thanks to a host of spy shots as well as brochure leak (that sent the global motoring press into quite tizzy) we already knew what the car looked like both inside and outside. 

Mahindra will be launching their second sub four metre vehicle, the Verito Vibe in Mumbai on June 5. The ‘Verito Vibe’ is indigenously designed and developed by M&M and is underpinned by the Verito platform. We have already seen spy pictures of the undisguised car from Pune and Bengaluru and know what it looks like both inside and outside.