BMW are said to be planning a plug-in hybrid – based on last year’s Vision EfficientDynamics Concept Car – called the BMW i100 Active Hybrid Coupe and due in 2013. As we’ve said on umpteen occassions, the car world is an ants nest of rumour. We get emails every day with the latest hype doing [...]
Mercedes has revealed the 2011 Mercedes S63 AMG with the new 5.5 Litre Biturbo V8 replacing the old, naturally aspirated 6.2 Litre. Mercedes intend phasing out the much loved – and wonderfully linear – 6.2 litre, naturally aspirated V8 which graces AMG Mercedes models across the range, from C Class to S Class and E class to [...]
It’s being reported, not for the first time, that Nissan are about to produce a drop top SUV – the Nissan Murano Convertible. No, it’s not April Fools Day. And yes, you did read that right. According to Inside Line – who have been shouting that the Nissan Murano is going to get its top chopped for [...]
The Nissan LEAF EV is going on sale in Portugal and Ireland with the UK following in September. We recently reported that the Nissan Leaf has exceeded all expectations after going on sale in Japan and the US, managing to acquire 19,000 orders in the briefest of time – twice the planned annual rate of [...]
Porsche has revealed that they have already built 25,000 Porsche Panameras in the first year of production at the Porsche plant in Leipzig. Big, exotic cars tend not to sell in big numbers. Annual production in the low thousands is usually as much as you’re likely to see from a supercar and once you get [...]
Pagani broke the Nurburgring record earlier this month with the Zonda R which set a time of 6m 47s. We have the whole lap on video Back in April we reported that Ferrari were claiming a Nurburgring record for the 599xx. This made-up-by-Ferrari record was for the fastest time round the Nurburgring by a road [...]
The SEAT Ibiza ST has now gone on sale in the UK with prices starting from £12,070 Back in February in the run up to the Geneva Motor Show SEAT sent us details of their diminutive estate, the SEAT Ibiza Sport Tourer (ST) which bowed in at Geneva shortly after. It’s taken six months to [...]
The coalition Government are going to honour the subsidy commitment on electric cars. But only for the first 8,600. We expected more sanity from the coalition Government on all things motoring – especially after Transport Secretary Philip Hammond decreed the war on motorists to be over. And we also hoped for common sense all round on all [...]
Ford Explorer – the vehicle that defined a segment – has been completely reinvented, raising customers’ expectations of sport utility vehicle (SUV) fuel efficiency, safety, technology, capability and quality. “The all-new Explorer will deliver today’s SUV buyers the attributes they really want and value, and a few they might not even have dreamed of,” said [...]
Ford has finally launched the 2011 Ford Explorer, which seems to have turned in to a soft roading crossover. Because it’s unlikely we will get the 2011 Ford Explorer on this side of the Pond, we haven’t covered its interminable tease in any real detail. Yes, we reported on the 2011 Explorer getting Ford’s new [...]
MINI, together with David Richard’s Prodrive, are taking the MINI Countryman back in to Rallying with a WRC title inside three years the target. Back when Adam was a lad (as was I, coincidentally) Mini were big in rallying. In fact they wiped the floor with just about everyone else in the ’60s, winning the [...]
Audi has finally revealed the Audi A7 Sportback in Muncih. On sale in the UK in January 2011 from £42,295 Finally, after much teasing and a little tormenting, Audi did the decent thing and put us out of our misery with the launch of yet another niche filler – the Audi A7 Sportback – at the Museum [...]
Porsche is developing an electric Boxster and will be running threee prototypes to get real world feedback in a programme named Modellregion Elektromobilität It’s not exactly a surprise that Porsche has announced its intention to develop an electric roadster based on the Porsche Boxster, after all – as part of VW – they have access [...]
Ferrari look to be ready to challenge Red Bull at the German Grand Prix, with the McLarens just behind. Did the Ferrari’s perform, or was it another Red Bull day? It held so much promise, the 2010 German Grand Prix. The Ferrari recovery seems to be underway and capable of fighting with the Red Bulls. [...]
A week after the leak of the 2011 Mercedes CL63 AMG & CL65 AMG, we get official details and photos. We had the first leak of the 2011 Mercedes CL AMG last month when we first saw the nips and tucks Mercedes had inflicted on what we thought was about to be renamed the S Class Coupe (which apparently won’t [...]
Big Top Gear episode tonight with Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Lewis Hamilton in an Ayrton Senna Film, Hammond with Snowmobiles in Sweden & May in the Veyron Super Sports. Update: We’ve added the Star in a reasonably priced car VT with Cruise and Diaz at the bottom. It’s live at the moment, but Top Gear [...]
The first official photos of Audi’s new Audi A7 Sportback have leaked ahead of the reveal tomorrow We reported last week that Audi were due to reveal the Audi A7 Sportback tomorrow (Monday) at the Pinakothek der Moderne München in Munich. So it’s hardly a shock that the first official photos of the new Audi A7 Sportback [...]
The M Sport Package for the 2011 BMW X3 has leaked out, offering a butch bodykit, interior tweaks and revised suspension and steering. It’s only just over a week since BMW revealed the 2011 BMW X3, an evolutionary makeover for BMW’s middle ranking SAV. And now we get – although not officially from BMW yet [...]
Pagani sources are telling Cars UK that problems with handling on the Pagani C9 – and delays with the production facility – will delay the C9 until 2012. We love the Pagani Zonda and we love pretty much all that Horacio Pagani has achieved in the last decade. He’s gone from a wannabe hypercar maker [...]
