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PORSCHE UPDATE ON JUDICIAL REVIEW PROCESS

July 2008

Legal campaign update -
Porsche wins victory in congestion charge challenge

Thank you very much for your support as we challenged
Mayor Livingstone's proposed £25 congestion charge in London.
As you saw for yourself, the congestion charge was a major issue
in the mayoral campaign and the candidate who opposed this
extension, Boris Johnson, was elected Mayor.

I am pleased to inform you that, today, the Administrative Court
in London has approved a consent order quashing the increase to
the charge. The new Mayor's legal team accepted that the
previous Mayoral administration should have taken into account
research from King's College which showed that the new charge
would actually increase CO2 emissions in Greater London and,
consequently that the new charge could, in fact, be unlawful.

Porsche has always been confident that the legal case was right
and now we are proud to have played a decisive role in striking
down such a blatantly political tax targeting motorists.

It is expected that significant legal costs will be awarded and
Porsche has decided to donate those costs to a fantastic charity
called Skidz, which takes at-risk young people and trains them in
motor vehicle maintenance and mechanics. This gives them the
tools and confidence they need to find gainful employment and
avoid a life of crime.

The support from Porsche will allow Skidz to open a facility in
Hillingdon, providing this opportunity to young Londoners for
the first time.

If you have any further comments or questions, you can contact
Porsche directly by e-mail at judicial.review@porsche.co.uk or
telephone 08457 911 911.

Thank you again for your support which was tremendously
encouraging and important to the challenge.

Yours sincerely,

Andy Goss
Managing Director

Boris has done what I voted him in for

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Boris Johnson has admitted that he had not read a key document setting out how the 2012 Olympic Games will be funded and insisted "I doubt it exists" - even though it is publicly available on the Culture Department's website

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When it comes to bad judgment, it’s looking like there will be few recent decisions in British government that will rival the Conservatives’ choice to appoint Ray Lewis as deputy mayor of London, holding him up as a shining example of the “new Conservative party.”

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Plans to levy a £25 tax on gas guzzlers were scrapped today. The Mayor is “delighted”, despite having to pay £400,000 in legal fees to the plaintiff, Porsche

Porsche was first to legally contest the ruling. Today, Johnson withdrew the proposal and a court ruled that Transport for London must pay the luxury car manufacturer’s court fees.

By Transport for London, we mean (incidentally) “the taxpayer"

He is a good laugh on HIGNFY though

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