May 19, 2013

Aston Martin CC100 Speedster Concept celebrates Aston Martin’s Centenary (video)

Photo Aston Martin CC100 Speedster Concept

The Aston Martin CC100 Speedster Concept – built to celebrate AML’s Centenary – has been revealed as a dramatic open Speedster with a V12 engine. It’s Aston Martin’s centenary year, and they needed to do something bold. They teased it yesterday and now it’s arrived – the Aston Martin CC100 Speedster Concept – and it’s certainly a [...]

2013 BMW 5 Series Facelift – Saloon, Touring & GT

2013 BMW 5 Series Touring Facelift Photos

The 2013 BMW 5 Series Facelift has arrived for the entire 5 Series range – Saloon, GT and Touring, although you’ll have to look quite hard to see the changes. We knew the next BMW News would be the arrival of a facelift for the 5 Series, especially after BMW accidentally previewed it with a configurator that went online [...]

Aston Martin CC100 tease ahead of Nurburgring reveal tomorrow (video)

Aston Martin CC100 tease

Aston Martin has teased the reveal of a centenary celebration open roadster – the Aston Martin CC100 – ahead of its reveal at the Nurburgring 24hr. UPDATE: Aston Martin CC100 Speedster Concept now Revealed 2013 is Aston Martin’s centenary, and as you’d expect there’s lots of ’100 Years of Aston Martin’ events going on, including [...]

Subaru XV gets a price cut – down by £1300 on 1.6 litre versions

Photo of 2013 Subaru XV

Subaru has announced that the XV Crossover is getting a price cut – for the 1.6 litre petrol version – taking it below £20k for the first time. We had the debut of the new Subaru XV Crossover at Frankfurt Motor Show in 2011, and by January last year Subaru had decided that the XV should start at £21,295 in the UK. [...]

Peugeot RCZ Magnetic Limited Edition – it’s a black or white RCZ

Peugeot RCZ Magnetic Limited Edition

The Peugeot RCZ Magnetic Limited Edition is a run of just 170 RCZs with either a black or white paint job and extra equipment. Now the novelty of a new nose on the facelift for the (often underrated) Peugeot RCZ has worn off a bit, Peugeot are using the well-tried route of offering a limited edition [...]

Volvo’s ‘World Premier’ is a bit of a damp squib

Volvo XC60 Leave the World Behind

Volvo’s ‘World Premier’ – which we thought might be the first look at the 2015 XC90 – turns out to be a tie-up between the new XC60 and the DJ trio Swedish House Mafia. We had been hoping – and, to a degree, expecting – that Volvo’s big ‘World Premier’ they’ve been teasing for today would be the [...]

Hello, America. It’s ‘Your Turn’ for the new Jaguar F-Type (video)

Photo from Jaguar F-Type Your Turn video

The new Jaguar F-Type is now hitting the US with a new promo video letting Americans know it’s ‘Your Turn’ for the new F-Type. There’s no doubt that the offerings from Jaguar have become much more appealing since Tata took over, and that’s a big part of why Jaguar is now probably more credible than at any [...]

Volvo confirms big production increase for V60 Plug-in Hybrid

Photo Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid

Volvo has confirmed they are increasing production of the V60 Plug-in Hybrid as demand far exceeds current supply. They will produce 10,000 in 2014. Late last month we heard from Sweden that production of the Volvo V60 Plugin Hybrid was set to double as Volvo responded to big demand for its tax-beating hybrid estate. And now Volvo [...]

Porsche 918 Spyder: New specs and new photos

Porsche 918 Spyder new photo

The Porsche 918 Spyder will get a power boost for the production car, Porsche has officially revealed, and we have new 918 Spyder photos too. Last month we reported that the Porsche 918 Spyder – Porsche’s new hybrid supercar – was to get a power boost for production to make it more able to cope [...]

Mercedes C 63 AMG Edition 507: Price from £66,960

Mercedes C 63 AMG Edition 507 saloon, estate and coupe photo

Mercedes has announced that the C 63 AMG Edition 507 will cost £66,960 for the saloon and £68,160 for the estate and coupe. Now on sale in the UK. With the current Mercedes C Class due for a facelift, Mercedes revealed a super-duper special edition at the Geneva Motor Show in March – the Mercedes C [...]