Top award

THE Renault Megane Scenic has been named Britain's best used car in the annual Auto Express used car honours. The car also picked up the award in the best used compact multi-purpose vehicle category.

Box of bits

MOTORISTS hunting for those essential, but elusive, bits and pieces that always go missing have help at hand from Laser Hand Tools, of Southam, near Banbury, who have come up with the Box of Bits series. The bits range from car fuses and cotter pins to circlips, washers and springs. Prices start from about 7.

Outside job

THE Lexus RX300 luxury 4x4 will be the first Lexus model built outside Japan when production starts at the company's Canadian plant in 2003.