Renault has delivered us pricing and information on the two new Clio RenaultSport models this afternoon – the Clio RenaultSport 200 Cup and the Clio RenaultSport 200. The first news is not startling. The new models do sport more power than the old – a whole 3bhp. But Renault say that the performance is improved [...]
> With what is claimed to be the first proper all-electric four seater car for the UK, The Electric Car Company has announced the immediate launch of the all electric Citroen C1 ev’ie today. Based (obviously) on Citroen’s baby C1, the C1 ev’ie aims to be as car-like as possible, but offering all the economies [...]
In more mad tinkering by the disingenuous Harriet Harman, it has been revealed that her new legislation on equality in the workplace will be extended to the broadcast media. Which could mean that Top Gear will have to include women in its presenter line-up. You really couldn’t make this up, but New Labour are intent [...]
[ad#ad-1] It’s no secret that Honda want to beat Toyota in the Hybrid car sales stakes. The Honda Insight was launched at a particularly keen price point with one aim in mind – to beat the Toyota Prius. And it appears to have worked. In the UK the Honda Insight has outsold the Toyota Prius [...]
[ad#ad-1] We have moaned a fair bit about the endless iterations of the MINI marque. From basic MINI Ones to MINI Cabriolets, to MINI Crossovers to the MINI Speedster et al. And now there is another to add to the list – The MINI John Cooper F1 50th Anniversary Edition. But perhaps this one is [...]
As was expected, Porsche has developed a Hybrid version of the Cayenne – The Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid – which will be launched in the UK in 2010.
With the official photos of the new BMW X1 only a month away, an undisguised BMW X1 has been seen filming in Germany.
[ad#ad-1] McLaren don’t have an easy time of it – but a big chunk of it has been of their own making. They have been pretty well punished for the furore over the Ferrari information they purloined last year, and their relationship with the sport’s governing body has never been great. So there was an [...]
Jaguar are just months away from revealing the all new Jaguar XJ range (on July 9th in London), and we recently had a ‘teaser’ release of pictures and video from Jaguar (not forgetting our ‘best Jaguar XJ’ photo). And ahead of the launch Jaguar have been giving the new XJ a shakedown at the Nurburgring, [...]
Renault has confirmed that it will be launching a coupe 0 cabriolet version of the Renault Twingo – the Twingo CC – by the Spring of 2010.
[ad#ad-1] The Bugatti Veyron is a quite exceptional car. It has broken boundaries and records in car manufacture and performance. It’s the ‘Concorde’ moment of car construction (probably even more so with the move towards eco-cars). But it’s a ‘halo project’ for VW – more about showing what is possible rather than making a profit [...]
[ad#ad-1] We first got to see the Ferrari 599XX at the Geneva Motor Show in March, when Ferrari brought one along to the show, but details were a little thin on the ground. In fact, there were more details on the handling pack for the 599 – the 599 HTGE Pack – than there were [...]
[ad#ad-1] The last time we saw the Audi RS5 out testing at the Nurburgring, it appeared to be pretty much undisguised. The video we had earlier of the RS5 (which has now been removed by YouTube) showed the RS5 lapping the Nurburgring at a fair lick. But it would appear that the car we saw [...]
[ad#ad-1] I bet, just like us, you already thought it was legal to have your UK Car Numberplate displaying the national flag of your choice. But it wasn’t. At least until today. It has been a bone of contention for Brits for years. Why on earth do we have to display the ridiculous EU starry [...]
It has been announced that Mazda is to supply Norway with Hydrogen powered RX-8 cars for use in the HyNor project, to allow hydrogen cars to run between Stavanger and Oslo.
It’s true, we did get to see what looked like a complete Aston Martin One-77 at the Geneva Motor Show. Sadly, it didn’t stay around long. It needed to get back to the UK to get a real interior – amongst other things – presumably back to where we saw it prior to Geneva, when [...]
[ad#ad-1] We told you a couple of days ago about the latest in a long list of Bugatti Veyron special editions – The Bugatti Veyron L’Edition Centenaire. Well, all we could really show you then was a scan of the brochure for the car. After all, Bugatti wanted to keep the car secret prior to [...]
Jenson Button wins the F1 Grand Prix in Bahrain for Brawn GP, the third Brawn GP victory of the season, with Barrichello in fifth. Vettel 2nd; Trulli 3rd.
In a move that seems designed to protect Porsche and Bentley, it has been revealed that there will be no W12 or V10 version of Audi’s new A8 in 2010.
Rolls Royce are considering action against Geely for their Geely GE which is a Rolls Royce Phantom rip-off. Geely deny plagiarism or copying in any way.
Victor Muller, boss of Spyker, has revealed that Spyker’s next model – after the D8 SSUV is launched – will be a 4 door coupe saloon – the Spyker E8.
The Morgan Aero Super Sports will show at this weekends Villa d’Este event on the shores of Lake Como. The £127k Morgan will start delivery in the UK in 2010.
The Fiesta has always been a good seller for Ford. But the new Ford Fiesta has broken all previous records for the Blue Oval despite (or maybe because of) the current recession. Ford has announced that in the first nine months of production, the new Ford Fiesta has shifted a very impressive 250,000 units, more [...]
Gemballa, maker of extreme Porsches, has produced the most extreme version yet of their Cayenne-based Tornado – the Gemballa Tornado 750 GTS.
From rumours that the Aston Martin One-77 had been canned, to confirmation that the first Aston Martin One-77 would be in the flesh at Geneva, the One-77 has created a few stories in the last couple of months. But now Aston Martin have the completed car ready, and are planning on showing it this weekend [...]
