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May 22, 2013

New Toyota GT 86 video with the Toyota Sports 800

New Toyota GT 86 video with the Toyota Sports 800

Toyota has released new video of the GT 86, with a tribute to their first car, the Toyota Sports 800. Toyota may not have the history that European car makers enjoy, but they can now claim a genesis of almost 50 years. Which explains why Toyota has chosen to hark back to their first car – the [...]

Tesla Roadster Final Edition say goodbye to the Lotus platform

Tesla Roadster Final Edition

Tesla Roadster S production ends this year, and Tesla are saying goodbye to their first car with the Roadster Final Edition. Despite antipathy about the price and the range, the Tesla Roadster is the first proper electric sports car to hit the road – and sell. Tesla has managed to sell 2,600 Roadsters based on a Lotus [...]

Cars UK wishes all our readers a Merry Christmas

Bernie Ecclestone Christmas Card 2011

Seasons Greetings to all our readers, and a small selection of Car Makers’ Christmas Greetings 2011. The one day of the year we all get a day off, with just the exception of one story to wish you all a Merry Christmas. This year we’ve use Bernie Ecclestone’s Christmas Card for 2011, which perhaps sums [...]

Hyundai Veloster UK (2012): Photos and video

Hyundai Veloster

Hyundai UK has been busy taking photos and video of the new Veloster Coupe – due in showrooms in 2012 – and we have plenty of both. A couple of months on from the release of model and price details for the Hyundai Veloster in the UK, Hyundai UK has been making the most of [...]

MINI Coupe: The best test drive ever (video)

MINI Coupe Test Drive

MINI in the US ran a competition to describe the best test drive ever. The winner had his vision created as a commercial for the MINI Coupe. MINI in the US has been running a competition to promote the MINI Coupe, asking entrants to describe the best test drive ever. Which you would think would revolve around [...]

Nissan launches Platinum Edition X-TRAIL

Nissan X-TRAIL Platinum Edition

Nissan launches the X-Trail Platinum Edition with every option box already ticked. Costs from £29,180. The Nissan X-TRAIL is a perfectly good example of an on-road SUV, much in the style of the Freelander 2. It does everything quite well, but nothing spectacularly. But it is very competent, very well built, doesn’t do a bad job and doesn’t have [...]

Kia GT could spawn Coupe and Estate

Kia GT

The Kia GT Concept from Frankfurt is heading for production in 2013, and it looks like it could be joined by a Coupe and Estate. It’s not just Hyundai who are starting to push in to the luxury and performance territory currently dominated by the Germans, sister company Kia is getting in on the act [...]

Vauxhall / Opel Mocha (Corsa SUV) Geneva 2012 debut

Vauxhall / Opel Mocha

Vauxhall Opel are developing a sub-compact SUV based on the Corsa and called Mokka / Mocha which will debut at the 2012 Detroit Show. Downsizing is all the rage as every day it gets more expensive to buy and run a car. But despite buyers looking for smaller and more economical cars, they want those [...]

BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe price revealed

BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe price

BMW has revealed that the new 6 Series Gran Coupe will cost from £61,380 in the UK for the petrol engined 640i. The new BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe has had a bit of a sneak reveal in London this week ahead of its official debut at the Detroit Auto Show next month. And those who’ve been [...]

Is this the 2013 Audi TT?

2013 Audi TT?

A photo released by Audi with the announcement that Wolfgang Egger is the new Head of Audi Brand Design seems to show the 2013 Audi TT. It’s not all that unusual for a picture revealed by a car maker to have a hidden Easter Egg; something that’s only there if you look hard. And the guys over at [...]