It now seems clear that the next generation Ferrari 612 will arrive at Geneva 2011 and be a 4×4 Shooting Brake with 650bhp Last month we had an email in from Argentina pointing us towards spy shots published by Autoblog Argentina which seemed to be of an all wheel drive Ferrari 612. Which tied in [...]
The 2012 Mercedes SL is caught out testing. Arriving at Frankfurt 2011 and featuring Magic Ride Control and Magic Sky Control. When the fifth generation Mercedes SL hit the headlines back in 2002 it was a revelation, offering as it did the best of a coupe and a convertible and a completely bonkers performance version in the [...]
The rumourmill is declaring that the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics will come to market in 2013 as the BMW i8. Update 29-7-11: BMW has now revealed the BMW i8 Concept. BMW i8 Concept Photo Gallery Update: BMW has now revealed its new eco sub-brand as BMW i, and revealed that the Vision EfficientDynamics will indeed be the [...]
Pagani has released a teaser video for the Zonda’s replacement – the Pagani C9 – featuring a die-cast model of the new Pagani. As teasers for a new car go, the video tease at the bottom for the Zonda’s replacement – internal codename Pagani C9 – is about as obscure as anything we’ve had from [...]
We have the first photos of the 2011 / 2012 Mercedes C63 AMG. It gets a reworked exterior and higher quality interior but retains the 6.2 litre AMG lump. We had the official release of images and detail on the 2011 Mercedes C Class facelift just before Christmas, following the inevitable leak of a photo or two [...]
Eighteen months after the five-door Kia cee’d got a facelift, its three-door sibling – the Kia pro_cee’d – gets treated to a similar update. 2011 Kia pro-cee’d facelift revealed does rather imply that Kia has had a hand in teasing a facelift for the grammatically-challenged pro_cee’d. But they haven’t. This reveal of a facelift for the three-door [...]
The 2012 Porsche 911 will be bigger than the current 911 and get a smaller entry-level 3.4 litre Boxer lump to help economy and emissions. It’s always the same when a new Porsche 911 comes along; it’s ‘spot-the-change’ time as Porsche reveals another evolution in the long history of its most iconic marque. So with a new 911 [...]
Fiat are to replace the Fiat Ulysee in Europe with the Dodge Journey rebadged as Fiat Freemont. The Fiat Freemont will debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. You might as well get used to this. Cross-pollination and re-badging between Chrysler and Fiat is going to move on apace in 2011 and this is just the start, with the [...]
The three cars used in the Top Gear ‘Three Wise Men’ Christmas Special are already on display at the World of Top Gear exhibition at Beaulieu That didn’t take long. Despite the Top Gear Christmas ‘Three Wise men’ Road trip only airing on the Beeb yesterday – and the whole Top Gear Iraq to Bethlehem [...]
Ford are to roll out Stop-Start on cars in North America from the 2010MY. They hope to offer Stop-Start across the whole Ford range by 2015. Stop-Start is a relatively simple way for car makers to grab more miles out of every gallon of fuel a car uses by simply turning off the engine when [...]
The Christmas card from Zagato seems to feature a new TZ – the Alfa Romeo TZ4. But beyond that, we don’t have a clue. Alfa Romeo have made some of the most beautiful cars on the planet. And none more beautiful than those designed and built in collaboration with Zagato. We wouldn’t go as far as the [...]
The first Maybach 57S Coupe – now dubbed the Maybach Cruserio Coupe – has been put up for sale. Which leaves just 99 more Maybach Coupes to shift. We’ve run a couple of stories about a coupe version of the Maybach 57S this year, starting with the rather surprising news that a Maybach Coupe was [...]
Cars UK wishes all our readers a very Merry Christmas. And even though we can’t send you all a Christmas card, share Red Bull’s amusing festive offering with us. Over the last couple of years we’ve featured Bernie Ecclestone’s Christmas Cards as our Christmas Day greeting to readers, as they’ve been by far the most [...]
Toyota will be taking a quartet of Prius models to Detroit in January: 3rd Gen Prius, Prius Plug-in, Prius MPV (Prius Alpha / Prius-V) and a smaller Prius Concept (Prius-C). Toyota has been threatening to build more versions of the Prius for a very long time. Almost as long as there’s been a Prius, in [...]
Kia has revealed a new gullwing crossover concept – the Kia K7 – which will be revealed at the Detroit Motor Show in January 2011. We’ve got used in recent years to the Koreans - in the guise of Hyundai and Kia – presenting more and more credible concepts which go on to become equally credible production [...]
New chapter in the Mercedes C Class success story from March 2011 Energetic: new, dynamic appearance inside and out Extended: ten new assistance systems for more safety Efficient: new engines with up to 31 per cent improvement in fuel consumption Experience: new generation of telematics with internet access Successful: more than one million units of [...]
Mercedes has revealed the 2011 / 2012 Mercedes C Class with a facelift to the exterior to give it family looks and an upgraded interior with E-Class quality. When we recently reviewed the Mercedes C Class – in relatively lowly C180 CGI guise – we had to conclude that Mercedes’ baby has come a long way. For the first time [...]
Despite not being officially announced by Lamborghini, the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento has cropped up for sale on a German web site. At the Paris Motor Show in September we were expecting Lamborghini to bring along their replacement for the Murcielago – the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4. What we actually got was the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento, a super-light supercar showcasing [...]
Aston Martin has revealed a trio of Limited Edition Aston Martin DB9 models to end 2010 – the DB9 Morning Frost, DB9 Carbon Black and DB9 Quantum Silver – as either Coupe or Volante. 2010 has been a busy year for Aston Martin, what with the final arrival of the much anticipated Aston Martin Rapide, [...]
The 2012 Toyota Yaris has debuted in Japan as the Toyota Vitz. It’s bigger and bolder and arrives in the UK late 2011. The headline is probably a bit disingenuous. The car in the picture – as you’ve probably already worked out – is the new Toyota Vitz, the JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) version of [...]
BMW has trademarked ‘BMW i and BMW i1 to i9 in preparation for the launch of their new sub-brand of MegaCity / Project-i City Cars We’ve know for some time that BMW are working on a sub-brand to launch a range of City Cars under the banner of ‘BMW Project i‘. We’ve assumed that this [...]
The 2011 Chrysler 300 C has been officially revealed ahead of a launch at the Detroit Motor Show in January 2011 The Chrysler 300C may not be the biggest seller in the UK – although it is loved by chauffeur companies looking for a cheap ‘Limo’ – but it is still a common enough occurrence on British roads for [...]
Fifth Gear presenter Tiff Needell has been seconded to Top Gear to play at Stig and teach Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle to be a star in a reasonably priced car. No, we haven’t got our stories in a twist. We know that former White Stig Ben Collins has been given some airtime as himself [...]
It’s being reported that Lamborghini has received more than 50 orders for the new Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 from Singapore. Singapore is tiny. It has a population less than London and yet is one of the world’s leading financial centres with one of the busiest ports in the world. So you won’t be surprised to learn [...]
