Pictures of the 2011 US Spec Ford Fiesta have leaked out ahead of its launch this week, and seem to show a very ‘Americanized’ Fiesta. Ford have played a long game with the introduction to the US market of Europe’s favourite small car – the Ford Fiesta. They’ve run a very savvy social media campaign and [...]
Lexus has created a mini LF-A dealership within its Park Lane Showroom for potential buyers of the LF-A to buy and customise their LF-A. You may be surprised to learn that the Lexus LF-A is actually for sale if you were one of the first to read our report last week that you could only [...]
Renault has launched the Megane Sport Tourer Extreme, a new entry-level model of the Megane Estate starting from £14,935. It sounds as if a Renault Megane Sport Tourer Extreme should be a rival for a Renaultsport, but it’s not. It’s the new entry-level package on the Megane Sport Tourer. But there’s nothing wrong with that, [...]
2011 Ford Mustang V-6 goes high-tech: new 305-Hp engine, six-SPEED transmission expected to Deliver 30 MPG highway • For 2011, Mustang makes sports coupe news with a new high-performance, all-aluminum Duratec® 3.7-liter DOHC Ti-VCT V-6 that delivers 305 horsepower and an expected best-in-class 30 mpg highway with six-speed automatic transmission – no other vehicle in [...]
Ford has revealed the 2011 Mustang with a new V6 offering 305bhp, styling tweaks, new ‘boxes and 36mpg. So what, you may say. 305 horses is hardly an earth-shattering amount of power for an American muscle car. And you’d be right. It’s not exactly unbridled power. But this is the entry-level Mustang; the one that’s all show [...]
The 2011 Cruze: Chevrolet Unveils U.S. Version Of The Popular, Fuel-Efficient Global Compact Sedan 2009-11-29 2011 Chevrolet Cruze at a Glance: o Popular global car refined for America o Expected segment-best fuel economy – up to 40 mpg highway – with new family of small-displacement engines, including Ecotec 1.4L I-4 turbo o Progressive design with [...]
The 2011 Chevrolet Cruze for the US market has been revealed ahead of its debut at the LA Motor Show this week. It’s the LA Auto Show this week, and one of the debuts is – somewhat bizarrely – the launch of the 2010 / 2011 Chevy Cruze. Is that an all new Chevy Cruze [...]
The LA Auto Show kicks off on 4th December. This is a quick preview of what cars will be on show. This coming week see the start of the Los Angeles Motor Show, the last major car show of the year and one which you would normally see dominated by high end exotica, such is [...]
Reports say that Toyota are working on a new MR-2 with a sport hybrid setup to take on the Honda CR-Z. The Toyota MR-2 was a much loved sports car in its day (despite the MR-2 bit sounding like ‘Sh*t’ if said in French) and lovers of the MR-2 have long bemoaned its passing. But [...]
BMW has pulled out of the deal with Qadbak to take control of its F1 Team and will instead sell it back to Peter Sauber. BMW is getting out fo Motorsport in a big way. Not only has it left F1 but it’s rumoured that they are also pulling out of WTCC after narrowly losing [...]
Brabus has revealed the Mercedes E63 AMG based Brabus B63 S at the Essen 2009 Motor Show, offering an extra 30bhp and a top speed of 200mph. Brabus is one of the best known Mercedes car tuners, and produces a huge array of tuned versions of Mercedes AMG products. And at the Essen Motor Show [...]
Hyundai is to stop selling cars in Japan after failing to make an impact on the market, despite success in the rest of the world. Hyundai has been a real phenomenon in the last few years. Despite – or maybe even because of – the worldwide slump in car sales they have pushed relentlessly forward and are now the [...]
New Škoda Superb Estate: Loaded With Innovation And Luxury * Škoda Superb Estate specification and new features revealed * Trim levels to mirror the Superb hatch (excluding Greenline) The new Škoda Superb Estate is set to become both the most luxurious and most practical car ever to wear the famous winged arrow badge. Trim levels [...]
Skoda launched the Superb Estate at the Frankfurt Motor Show and has now released UK price and specification details We got the launch of the Skoda Superb Estate at the Frankfurt Motor Show back in September, a month or so after Skoda did the usual tease with the Superb Estate. As we said at the [...]
Audi has been busy tracking down the last ever Horch, and has found it in the middle of nowhere in Texas. It’s been looking likely for a while that now VW has taken control of Porsche it may decide to rebrand the VW Group as Auto Union. Auto Union was the root of Audi, and [...]
The UK has escaped relatively lightly in the GM restructuring with Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant having no redundancies and Luton around 340. It looks like the bulk of the savings that GM need to make in Vauxhall/Opel are going to fall outside the UK, with the news that there will be no job cuts at the Astra-making [...]
The next generation Enzo Ferrari – codenamed F70/FX70 – is on track for 2012 with a V12 or twin turbo V8 With news the other day that the Lamborghini Urus is being lined up to take on the next generation Ferrari Enzo – the F70/FX70 – we’re now hearing that Ferrari’s plans to replace the [...]
It looks like MINI are planning a Cooper S Diesel if spy photos we’ve received are accurate. The photo at the top appears to be a MINI Cooper S diesel. Which is not a car we had on our radar, but with MINI any sub niche of a sub niche is fair game, so it [...]
Lotus has big plans to increase production to 8,00 cars a year in the next decade, and return to Le Mans, Indy Car and GT Racing. Through all the gloom and doom car makers have reported over the last year and more there has been one shining light which has seemed impervious to the downturn [...]
Citroen are to produce the next in the range of DS cars – The Citroen DS2 – based on the Citroen Revolte Concept and launched in 2012. We had the Citroen C3 Nouveau teased in the run up to this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show in September. By the time we got in to a reveal [...]
