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10th April 2007

£479,000,000: Amount paid in pounds to Ford for Aston Martin by David Richards’ consortium. Coincidentally, it’s the same figure VW offered Vickers to buy Bentley in 1998.

0.5: Length in miles of the shortest motorway in Britain. The A64(M) runs between Brunswick and Quarry Hill in Leeds, W Yorks.

340: Maximum bhp figure of Rover’s V8 engine, made by TVR for its Griffith 500. The same unit in the 1979 Land Rover LWB V8 had 91bhp.

30: Percentage of equity the Peugeot family holds in PSA Peugeot-Citroen – but with 45 per cent ‘voting stock’, the dynasty is in majority control.

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