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Oil major renews partnership with Korean VM

Here's an interesting press release from eBay:

Any car enthusiast that has a restoration project sat in their garage or workshop is invited to enter the eBay Car Challenge.  Hopeful projects can range from a surprising barn find that’s gathering dust, to a prized family heirloom needing funds to get it back to its former glory.

The three projects will be chosen by eBay on 3 April 2016, with each restoration receiving £4,000 in funding to spend on over 270,000 live listings of car and motorbike parts and accessories available on ebay.co.uk. The restorers will then have until 3 July 2016 to complete their project.

A UK-based manufacturing company believes that exiting the EU would cause a ‘catastrophic crash in UK manufacturing’s competitiveness’

Writing in the upcoming March issue of CAT, Toby Massey, MD at BM Catalysts says: “Brexit is a divisive issue and from an economic perspective, an increadibly short sighted one”

He notes that 50 percent of his company’s turnover is generated from export, so the corporate stance is ‘naturally pro EU’.

WhoCanFixMyCar Heatwave special - supporting data

As a result of discovering some administrative anomalies we have immediately suspended all production and deliveries of Type Approved converters while we implement the appropriate corrective actions.

Having closely reviewed our production and disassembled some of our stock we are disappointed to report we have discovered anomalies where we have incorporated the wrong monolith into manufactured parts.

Following recent developments surrounding the homologation of catalytic converters produced by a UK-based manufacturer, four emissions-based manufacturers have issued the following joint press release to clarify a number of key points.

RMI's IGA bigs up SERMI as a ‘significant step towards having a level playing field'

Andrew Page (AP) is to phase out the Camberley Auto Factors (CAF) brand over the next two months.