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For the fourth time in the past three years, an Audi model has won a prestigious EyesOn Design Award recognising the best of automotive design displayed at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

The Motor Show, the biennial showpiece of the Automobile Dealers Association of Jamaica Limited (ADA), has been postponed. The event was scheduled for February 25-27 at Sabina Park.

Kingsley Scott, promoter of Slippery Wen Wett, says this year's staging of the event will be three times better.

Despite the much-publicised efforts of the Jamaica Constabulary Force to rid the street of windscreen cleaners last year, it appears that they have started to return to the streets and are conducting their business as usual.

DETROIT:The 2011 Ford Explorer - America's most fuel-efficient full-size SUV - was named North American Truck of the Year recently by an international panel of journalists.

The Police Traffic Division, headed by Senior Superintendent Radcliffe Lewis, lived up to his promise last year to rid the streets of windshield wipers at major intersections across the Corporate Area.

2010 saw a change in legislation which now permits the hearing-impaired to apply for a driver's licence, once they present an audiologist's certificate confirming their level of hearing.

Former Dover motorcyclist Lucien Tai Tenn Quee died peacefully on September 27. Tai Tenn Quee represented Jamaica in regional championships and was the former head of the University of the West Indies campus' security.

Last year was a mixed bag for the auto industry. The recessionary year was marred by recalls, missed targets for the reduction in road deaths, but brightened by Marzouca's magical cruisers and Montego Bay taking on a new personality, thanks to ATL. Today, Automotives will give a rear-view glance of some events and people who made 2010 a memorable one.

While many sports personalities worldwide are in the process of applying the finishing touches to their New Year's resolution, Jamaica's motorsport fraternity already have set their sights on major goals when the new season begins later this month.

IT'S A NEW year, and as motorists there are things we would like to change. For some, it may be driving habits. For others, it may be a desire to see a transformation of the deplorable road conditions or even the erecting of more road signs to help travellers find unfamilar places.

DO YOU consider buying a car based on how safe it is? Well, according to a few car dealers, most car shoppers don't. Tariq Malik, owner of the Old Hope Road-based Carland ...