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Car giant nissan�*s technical development centre in bedfordshire. what do you think people expect an electric car to sound like? that was the interesting question that we started with — what should a car sound like? because none of us had really thought about it. itjust sounds like the engine. the leaf is one of the world�*s best—selling electric cars and they now come with nissan�*s reimagined suite of sounds called canto. we wanted to be optimistic, a little bit futuristic, but not to pretend to be anything that the car wasn�*t. we didn�*t want to pretend to be a petrol engine,...

Anything that the car wasn't. we didn't want to pretend to be a petrol engine and we ended up putting sort of three together and then melding sounds together and building from there a profile of different sounds that would work with the car. not all new leafs will sound the same. we're the first tv crew to be invited into nissan's top secret semi—anechoic chamber, and paul's the man in charge of testing the sounds and tweaking them to different markets. because, it turns out, different countries have different ideas of what good quality sounds like. in europe, we attribute quality with a mor...

In his notes, talked about a day trip to a peppa pig theme park, and imitated a car. here's ros atkins with a rundown of how the speech went and what the reaction has been. in the north—east of england, the cbi's annual conference was addressed by the prime minister. good morning, everybody. it's fantastic to be here in tyneside, one of the big net exporting regions in the whole of the uk. it was an orthodox start to the speech, but soon we were into more unusual territory. when presenting a ten point plan to support businesses going green, mrjohnson compared himself to moses. he also quoted...

Times are tough and, as such, Hyundai is offering a new entry-level Venue model that's designed to be a little kinder to your wallet

Of a famous fan. i'm also here at silverstone. we're about to go into the lunaz workshop where they're re—engineering classic cars into electric cars. it's incredible in here. there are so many beautiful cars. lunaz is making the world's first fully electric rolls—royces and bentleys. there are about 18 classic cars in the building, most dating from the 1960s. john hilton is the technical lead here. he was an aeronautical engineer at rolls—royce before moving into formula 1. among a long list of accomplishments, he was a technical lead for michael schumacher�*s 1994 world championship ...