The Land Rover Defender LXV is a special edition Defender launched to celebrate Land Rover’s 65th Anniversary at an event at the Packington Estate near Solihull. [nggallery id=1495 template=customlinks] The Land Rover Defender – in one shape or another – has been with us for 65 years, so Land Rover is busy celebrating their 65th anniversary […]
Spyker B6 Venator Spyder on the way
Spyker has revealed in its annual report that it will reveal a convertible version of the Venator Concept revealed at Geneva 2013 – the Spyker B6 Venator Spyder. [nggallery id=1435 template=customlinks] Spyker has always promised much but not actually managed to deliver anything really significant. But there is promise in the new Spyker B6 Venator […]
McLaren 12C Can-Am & Historic McLaren Can-Ams at 2013 Goodwood FoS
McLaren are celebrating their 50th anniversary at the Goodwood Festival of Speed by taking the 12C Can-Am up the hillclimb and showcase historic Can-Am McLarens. [nggallery id=1179 template=customlinks] Last summer, McLaren showcased a 12C Can-Am racer at Pebble Beach to see if the reaction from track day lovers was good enough to justify a production […]
Rolls Royce Wraith Convertible planned & the Wraith hits Harrods
Rolls Royce are planning a convertible version of the Wraith and have also planted a new Wraith in the window of Harrods to reach their target market. [nggallery id=1395 template=customlinks] The Rolls Royce Wraith – a RR Ghost Coupe – made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March as the most dynamic car […]
London Congestion Charge: Buy 76-100g/km car NOW to get 3 years free of charge
The London Congestion Charge rules are changing on 1st July 2013 so your car will need to emit less than 76g/km to get in to London free of charge. Whether you think the London Congestion Charging Zone is a great way to clean up the air quality of the capital or just another way to […]
Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid: Production to double to cope with demand
Volvo’s new V60 plug-in hybrid is proving so successful that Volvo are trying to double production to 10,000 a year to cope with demand. [nggallery id=861 template=customlinks] The Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid finally went in to production at the end of 2012 as the first diesel plug-in hybrid on the market, and despite our antipathy towards expensive, […]
Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse world speed record: Video
The Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse officially became the fastest convertible in the world recently and we have video of the 254mph record- breaking run. [nggallery id=1474 template=customlinks] We’ve had a little flurry of publicity for Bugatti recently as they first lost, then recovered, their world speed record for a production car from Guinness, and then we thought they might be coming […]
New Maserati Ghibli could get 4.0 litre V8 Diesel
The new Maserati Ghibli – which has the option of a V6 diesel – could get a new V8 diesel with 360bhp if demand for the V6 diesel drives sales. [nggallery id=1471 template=customlinks] The car world is slowly losing its V8s, V10s and V12s as car makers turn to fewer cylinders and forced induction to […]
VW Group planning 10-speed DSG, new powerful diesel engine & more plug-in hybrids
Volkswagen has a new 10-speed DSG gearbox in development, a new diesel engine with electric boost delivering 136bhp per litre and will roll out more plug-in hybrids. The end of the internal combustion engine is nigh, they say, as the world tries to clean up its environmental act and works towards a goal of electric motors to […]
Audi planning their own version of the electric VW e-Up
It’s reported by the German motoring press that Audi are working on their own version of the electric e-Up city car for launch in 2015. [nggallery id=764 template=customlinks] Audi has played endlessly with their e-tron range of electric cars and range-extenders in recent years, but precious little has seemed even close to production. Perhaps the most promising […]